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Pete Townshend has claimed that the song was partly inspired by the song "Street Fighting Man" by the Rolling Stones.'I'm Free' came from 'Street Fighting Man.' This has a weird time/shape and when I finally discovered how it went, I thought 'well blimey, it can't be that simple,' but it was and it was a gas and I wanted to do it myself.
The song was also performed at the free concert in Hyde Park, London, on July 5, 1969, released on the DVD The Stones in the Park in 2006. In 2007, a remixed version of the original recording was used in a television commercial for the Chase Freedom credit card and in 2008 it was used in a UK commercial for a Renault SUV.
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"I'm Free (Heaven Helps the Man)" is a song recorded by American recording artist Kenny Loggins, composed by Loggins and Dean Pitchford, and produced by Loggins and David Foster. It was released in June 1984 as the second of two singles by Loggins from the film, Footloose that are included on the film's soundtrack .
"My Wife" is arguably John Entwistle's highlight on Who's Next being that he takes on the lead vocals, bass guitar, piano, and horn section. [3] [4] Unusually, this song does not feature a guitar solo, which is most likely because Entwistle could only "write on bass guitar or in my head, just transfer it to manuscript paper, or piano," [5] and did not play the guitar.
The Soup Dragons are a Scottish alternative rock band of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Named after a character in the 1970s children's television series Clangers, the group is best known for its cover of the Rolling Stones' song "I'm Free", which was a top 5 hit in the United Kingdom in 1990; and "Divine Thing", a top 40 hit in the United States in 1992.
"Free Me" is a song written by Russ Ballard and performed by Roger Daltrey, singer for English rock band The Who. The song is on Daltrey's 1980 solo album McVicar and in the film McVicar , also released in 1980.
"Going Mobile" is one of the lighter moments on Who's Next. [1] It was originally conceived as part of Townshend's abandoned Lifehouse project. [1] [2] Townshend described the use of the song in the proposed project as follows: "As the story unfolded, because of the vagaries of the modern world, because of pollution being caused mainly by people's need to travel, to be somewhere else.