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Old 08-20-2016, 09:46 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Townshend stated in an interview that "'Baba O'Riley' is about the absolute desolation of teenagers at Woodstock, where the patrons were smacked out on acid and 20 people had brain damage. The irony was that some listeners took the song to be a teenage celebration: 'Teenage Wasteland, yes! We're all wasted
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and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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