LISTEN: The Who previously unreleased track from 1965 - The Girls I Could Have Had
THE WHO’S Roger Daltrey and Peter Townshend have shared a previously unreleased track from 1965 called The Girls I Could Have Had - listen to it here first.
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The Who have released an unreleased track from 1965
The Girls I Could Have Had is one of three unreleased tracks that will be included in a remastered super deluxe edition of The Who’s debut album, My Generation.
The song was made as a demo by Pete Townshend in his Chesham Place flat.
NME report Townshend saying of the song: “I have often said about my early songs that I tried hard to appeal to Roger’s sense of late teenage machismo."
The band have made the song available for streaming via Spotify here.
The Who's debut album was released in 1965
He added: “Either that, or I attempted to sound like Jan & Dean so that Keith Moon – who was a surf music fan – would get behind the song.
“Here, a rather machismo and bragging song slipped away because it was more about me than Roger Daltrey, and certainly not a surf number.”
It was announced in June that Daltrey was to be honoured with a prestigious Music Industry Trusts Award.
Townshend revealed the song is self-deprecating of his luck with the ladies.
The guitarist said: “It’s about my lack of success with girls when I lived at Chesham Place, partly because I spent all my time in my studio.
“Roger did very well with girls; it would never have worked for him to sing this lyric. The lyric is also fantastical."
Pete admitted the song was about his lack of success with women
He added: “I make it sound as though I was turning down girls every day.
“In real life I was probably piqued that rarely happened. My tape machine was my mistress.”
The Who’s My Generation Super Deluxe Edition will be released on November 18, 2016.