Fiddle About by The Who

Genre: Rock
Year: 1969

"Fiddle About" is a song written by John Entwistle of The Who. It appears as the twelfth track on the groups first rock opera, Tommy (1969). In the song (Following Tommys parents discussing whether or not they should leave him with his Uncle Ernie in the song Do You Think Its Alright?) Tommy is sexually abused by his "wicked" Uncle Ernie. "Fiddle About" and "Cousin Kevin" were the only two songs on Tommy written by John Entwistle. When asked why he wrote the songs John replied:

Pete said that there were two characters that he thought he himself couldnt do as good a job as me in describing. One was a homosexual uncle and the other was a cruel cousin, which were supposed to be two of Tommys traumatic experiences, that and the acid queen. I found it so easy that Id written Read full article at wikipedia.org

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