The Who – Anyway Anyhow Anywhere (Ready Steady Go, 1965) pt2

On July 1st, 1965, The Who are filmed performing live versions of “Anyway Anyhow Anywhere” and “Shout and Shimmy” for Ready Steady GO.
“Anyway Anyhow Anywhere” was later used in The Kids Are Alright documentary.

“Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere” was the second single released by the English rock band the Who in 1965. It features call-and-response lyrics (especially common in Who lyrics at this time) and some of the first ever recorded guitar feedback. The song was composed by lead singer Roger Daltrey and guitarist Pete Townshend, the only time they wrote together. The guitar feedback, although not the first to be heard on a record (see the Beatles’ “I Feel Fine”), is thought to be the first solo with feedback.

“Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere” has a significant similarity to “Out in the Street”, which appears on their debut album My Generation. Both songs feature a three-chord strum before “blasting into an uptempo rhythm”. Despite this, “Out in the Street” is a marginally older song, and both tracks originate from the same recording sessions between 13 and 14 April 1965. The use of feedback throughout the song was crucial, according to Townshend, who stated that the group “were trying to achieve the sound which we get on the stage at present, all in a commercial song that will sell.” He would later claim that “Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere” was an attempt to write a very spiritual song.

“Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere” was released on 21 May 1965. The release coincided with an appearance on Ready Steady Go! by the group, in which they perform this and “Shout and Shimmy”. “Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere” fitted the mood of Ready Steady Go! so well that the show adapted it as their intro for a while. In the US, the feedback present in the recording startled Decca Records, who believed they’d received a faulty tape of the song. The song was released on 5 June 1965 in the US.

The single became the Who’s second top-ten single after “I Can’t Explain”, reaching number ten on the UK Singles Chart. It remained in the top forty for eleven weeks, with six weeks in the top twenty, and one in the top ten.
It also became a top forty single in France, reaching number thirty-eight, but it failed to match the success that “I Can’t Explain” had in the US: whereas that was a top-hundred hit (peaking at 93).

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