Before I completed the third demo we experimented until the stutter became exaggerated and obvious.”
The second and third demos featured Townshend using stuttering vocals. In his 2012 autobiography Who Am I, Townshend asserted: “Chris picked up on a stutter on my vocal on the second demo, so I played him John Lee Hooker’s ‘Stuttering Blues.’ Roger had been experimenting with stuttering on stage ever since Sonny Boy Williamson Jr had joined us on harmonica at our first Marquee dates Sonny Boy used a stutter rhythmically when he sang. “My Generation” was written entirely by Who guitarist Pete Townshend, who recorded a few demos of the song on his own. A 26 October 2017 article “8 Songs Banned by the BBC for the Strangest of Seasons” appeared on the BBC website and tells the amazing story of how the BBC at first banned the song out of deference to the feelings of people who stutter. However, because of the widespread popularity of the song, the BBC lifted the ban and allowed it to be played on the airwaves after pirate radio stations gave it heavy airplay in addition to over 300,000 copies of the single being sold.
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It was released on October 29, 1965, and reached the number two position on the British pop charts, but failed to crack the Top 40 in the U.S., stalling at number 74 on the Billboard Hot 100. However, the song remains a staple of classic rock stations worldwide. The song appeared on the band’s 1965 debut album My Generation and is The Who’s highest ranking chart single in their native UK. Surprisingly, the song almost did not receive any airplay because the BBC initially banned the song citing it as being offensive to people who stutter. “My Generation” ranks as the most widely known song with stuttering vocals of all time.
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The press release was followed by a feature article in the Winnipeg Free Press, the hometown newspaper of Bachman-Turner Overdrive, entitled “BTO Song Singled Out,” which went over the Canadian wire service and appeared in almost every daily newspaper in Canada. and Canada for Bachman-Turner Overdrive, as the top stuttering song of all time on account of the fact that the song was inspired by an actual person who stutters who later found fluency through speech therapy. In 2011, the Stuttering Foundation issued a press release headlined “ Stuttering to the Top of the Charts” which named “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet”, a 1974 number hit in both the U.S. Kibblewhite: My Story. It is no surprise that “My Generation” was cited as the 11 th greatest song by Rolling Stone on its list of “The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time” and 13 th on VH-1’s list of “The Hundred Greatest Songs of Rock & Roll.” As lead singer of The Who, Roger Daltrey provided lead vocals for “My Generation,” the 1965 anthem which is considered to be the most famous of the many rock songs with stuttering vocals. In October 2018 Daltrey released his memoir Thanks A Lot Mr.
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