The band just wanted to see if they could get away with singing about the joys of explicit sex. “ Squeeze Box” is a slang term for an accordion, but it is also slang for the vagina. Nothing wrong with a bit of ‘in-and-out’, mate!” I’ve never had a problem with that song because it doesn’t pretend to be anything other than what it is and I love it for that. Roger Daltrey: “What’s great about ‘Squeeze Box’ is that it’s so refreshingly simple, an incredible catchy song. Pete Townsend: “It’s not about a woman’s breasts, vaginal walls, or anything else of the ilk.” In the planned performance of the song, the members of the band were to be surrounded by 100 topless women playing accordions Squeeze Box was originally intended for a Who television special planned in 1974. A question he would wrestle with a few more years. He had just turned 30 and he was beginning to question his place in Rock and Roll. Townshend wrote all of the songs and they were deeply personal. Squeeze Box made it to #16 in the Billboard 100 in 1976. This song was on the album The Who By Numbers released in 1975 and peaked at #8. My sister surprisingly had this single…a bright spot among the many bad ones she owned. It’s also the first Who song I remember hearing without knowing much about them. This is not The Who’s best song but it’s happy and catchy. He also slips in the accordion for good measure. Not on this song…you hear Pete happily playing on a banjo…and that is a great thing. You go and see Pete Townshend to watch him windmill his guitar and jump about.
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