Townshend produced the single, arranged its strings, played its bass guitar under the pseudonym Bijou Drains, and hired for it GPO engineer and Dixieland jazz pianist Andy ‘Thunderclap’ Newman (born Andrew Laurence Newman, 21 November 1942, Hounslow, … marrying McCulloch’s sweeping acoustic and glowing electric guitars ; Keen’s powerful drumming and falsetto, Newman’s legendary frostbite in boxing gloves piano solo and Townshend’s (uncredited) electric bass .

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