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Had Enough (The Who song)

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I don't mind orchestras. I like them triumphant. There's things you can do with strings that can be really good and exciting but what he'd done on this I didn't like. He said, 'What do you think?' And I said, 'Don't like it much.' And he went up the fucking wall. So I think he smacked me and I smacked him and that's how we were in those days.
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I had a punch-up with Glyn Johns, mainly because he put strings on John's track 'Had Enough.' I went into the studio in the afternoon the day before they put on the strings. I thought, 'Fucking hell, strings on a Who track?' When I heard it, it was just slushy strings and I don't like slushy strings.
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We used full orchestral string arrangements here for the first time on any Who track. It seemed OK to do it with one of John's songs -- he was always struggling single-handed to lay down enough overdubbed brass parts on my stuff (especially Quadrophenia) to sound like an orchestra himself. Our
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album's release. Despite this, "Had Enough" received far less radio airplay than "Who Are You" but American FM rock radio played the song frequently after its release. Entwistle later joked that most people probably thought the song was a B-side because it said "Entwistle" on it. It was never
304:" I put that kind of beat to it and I used a suspended chord where you play just a C bass note and stay on the C and write chords around it that fit in. And presto! Instant Who song! 348:
said it has "a strong guitar and keyboard presence, stout drumming and aggressive stance by Roger Daltrey" as well as "silky backing singing."
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arranger was my wife's inspired father, Ted Astley. The strings on this track are quantum. But it's another cynical, life-weary lyric, like '
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on lead vocals, after "Someone's Coming" from 1967, and "Success Story" from 1975. Entwistle said of the song's composition:
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in the process of being written by Entwistle, but was never finished. It was written a long time before work was started on
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Roger Daltrey, however, did not approve of these strings, reportedly head-butting producer
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performed live by the Who, although it featured in many of Entwistle's solo concerts.
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Unusually for a Who song, it features a full string orchestra, which was arranged by
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I used an old Who trick, which is playing that sort of dum dum dum dum beat like "
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Like "905", "Had Enough" was planned to feature on a
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Index

Single
the Who
Who Are You
A-side
Who Are You
Genre
Symphonic rock
Label
Polydor
MCA
Songwriter(s)
John Entwistle
Producer(s)
Glyn Johns
Jon Astley
The Who
Squeeze Box
Who Are You
You Better You Bet
the Who
John Entwistle
Who Are You
Who Are You
Odds & Sods
rock opera
Roger Daltrey
Bell Boy
Ted Astley
New Song
Glyn Johns

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