Listen to this when
Who Are You
when you need to ask yourself the big question 🎸
Who it's for
Pete Townshend wrote this out of a messy, disorienting night that left him questioning who he was amid fame and excess.
Disoriented and questioning→Clear-headed and curious
Feelings it meets
What it is
"Who Are You" is the title track of The Who's 1978 album Who Are You, written by Pete Townshend and released as a single in July 1978. Townshend wrote much of it after a grueling 13-hour meeting with manager Allen Klein and a night out drinking with Sex Pistols members Steve Jones and Paul Cook. The song opens with a policeman finding Townshend in a Soho doorway.
Where to find it
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Before you start
Heads up: Explicit language and drinking.
Age: Suggested 13+
One ever feels his twoness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings;W. E. B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, Chapter 1
