Part of the marketing push for the album was a requirement that each band member should write at least two of the songs on it (although Roger Daltrey only wrote one), so this Who album is the least dominated by Pete Townshend's writing. This is widely regarded by fans to have been a pivotal album for the group, due to the departure from the R&B / pop formula featured on the band's first release. "Happy Jack" was not included on the UK version of the album, but instead was released as a non-album single. American record company executives at Decca Records released the album under the title Happy Jack, rather than the sexually suggestive title of the UK release, and due to "Happy Jack" being a top forty hit in the U.S. At best, the Who's raw power and intelligence offered essential messages to any era.Ī Quick One is the second album by English rock band The Who, released in 1966. Their tough, early tracks are a key punk resource, so it hardly matters that they were forever doomed to third place behind the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in the British-pop sweepstakes. The Who weren't always a nostalgia act or merely makers of pleasant Broadway fodder.
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