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The song may have inspired the Beatles' "Helter Skelter". Paul McCartney recalls writing "Helter Skelter" after reading a review of The Who Sell Out in which the critic claimed that "I Can See for Miles" was the "heaviest" song he had ever heard. McCartney had not heard the song but wrote "Helter Skelter" in an attempt to make an even "heavier ...
The Who Sell Out is the third studio album by the English rock band the Who.It was released on 15 December 1967 by Track Records in the UK and Decca Records in the US. A concept album, The Who Sell Out is structured as a collection of unrelated songs interspersed with fake commercials and public service announcements, including the second track "Heinz Baked Beans". [4]
Hooligans is a double compilation album of The Who released by MCA Records in 1981. It focuses on Who songs from the 1970s with only the titles "I Can't Explain", "I Can See for Miles" and "Pinball Wizard" from the 1960s.
Helter skelter at Clacton Pier, in the English county of Essex. Paul McCartney was inspired to write "Helter Skelter" after reading an interview with the Who's Pete Townshend in which he described their September 1967 single, "I Can See for Miles", as the loudest, rawest, dirtiest song the Who had ever recorded.
"I Can See for Miles" The Who: 9 November 25 3 November 25 "Daydream Believer" The Monkees: 1 December 2 10 December 2 "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" Gladys Knight & the Pips: 2 December 16 9 "An Open Letter to My Teenage Son" Victor Lundberg: 10 December 2 2 December 9 "Hello, Goodbye" The Beatles: 1 December 30 8 "I Second That Emotion"
I Can See for Miles" by The Who "Mr. Soul" by Buffalo Springfield "Purple Haze" by The Jimi Hendrix Experience [17] "Sunshine of Your Love" by Cream "White Rabbit" & "Somebody to Love" by Jefferson Airplane "Down on Me" by Big Brother and the Holding Company "Street Singer" by Clear Light "You Keep Me Hangin' On" by Vanilla Fudge
In the United States "Call Me Lightning" was the follow-up single to the Top 10 hit "I Can See for Miles" and reached No. 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 on 4 May 1968, [3] their 16th most successful single on the Hot 100. [4] Billboard described the single as a "pulsating rocker with a happy beat."
"A Thousand Miles" (originally titled "Interlude") is the debut single of American pop singer Vanessa Carlton. Produced by Curtis Schweitzer and Ron Fair, the song was released as the lead single for Carlton's first album, Be Not Nobody (2002).