May 14, 2025

"Disguises" by The Who

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It was never going to be too long before a Who track appeared in the random track generator. The Who are easily my most collected band.

The album selected was actually the Backtrack 3 Track Records sampler featuring Jimi Hendrix on side 2.

Disguises is considered, along with I’m A Boy and Substitute to be the first examples of thematic conceptual song writing from Townshend, here taking on gender identity, a subject he was fascinated by.

It was also Paul Weller’s favorite Who track which The Jam covered fairly faithfully on the ‘B’ side of Funeral Pyre.