The Kids Are Alright (song)
- The Kids Are Alright (song)
infobox Single |
Name = The Kids Are Alright
Artist = The Who
Album = My Generation
B-side = "A Legal Matter"
Released = 12 August 1966 (UK)
July 1966 (US)
Format = Vinyl record (7")
Recorded = October 14 1965 at Pye Studios, London, UK [http://www.thewho.net/discography/songs/TheKidsareAlright.html recording date and place, lyrics]
Genre = Pop, Rock
Length = 3:05 (UK)
2:45 (US)
Label = Brunswick Records 05965 (UK), Decca Records 31988 (US)
Writer = Pete Townshend
Producer = Shel Talmy
Chart position = #41 (UK), #85 (US)
Reviews =
Last single = "A Legal Matter"
1966
This single = "The Kids Are Alright"
1966
Next single = "I'm a Boy"
1966"The Kids Are Alright" is a song written by Pete Townshend of The Who. It appears as the seventh track on the group's first album, "My Generation" (1965). This song and the album's title track would become anthems for the group and the Mod movement of England in the 1960s. It would later become the name of the documentary for the band in 1979. The song features a standard I-IV-V chord progression in the key of D while the chorus uses a II-V-IV-I-II chord progression. It has been said that Townshend heard a Henry Purcell piece on the piano, prompting him to re-work the melody and harmony for the chorus of the song.Fact|date=May 2008 The American edit of the song features a substantially shortened guitar solo. In addition to appearing on "My Generation," the beginning of the song can be heard on Quadrophenia, after the song "Helpless Dancer" has faded out.
The song has been covered by bands such as The Queers, Goldfinger, Eddie And The Hot Rods, The Pleasers, Dropkick Murphys, Hi-Standard, Green Day and Pearl Jam and Belle & Sebastian who closed their set with it at the Bowlie Weekender in 1999. In 2008 Billy Bob Thorntons band The Boxmasters recorded a version of the song as the closing number on the second disc of their album The Boxmasters.
In present-day live performances, The Who add a lengthy extra section to the end of "The Kids Are Alright", featuring partly improvised lyrics. After John Entwistle's death, the extra lyrics would occasionally make reference to him, and his love of old red wine, which would later inspire their song "Old Red Wine", a tribute to Entwistle.
This song was also the influence of the song "The Kids Aren't Alright" by The Offspring.
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