![]() ![]() While the Who had on occasion displayed the ability to quiet themselves when the circumstances dictated (particularly on Tommy), for the most part they were still best known of the bash-and-crash amphetamine overdrive of their live show and such singles as "My Generation" and "I Can See for Miles." However, "Behind Blue Eyes" showed that the band had learned how to generate tension and drama through other means. On Who's Next, the song had to stand alone as a meditation of one man's dual nature, and the result was one of the most powerful and mature performances on the album. Like most of the songs on the Who's 1971 classic Who's Next, Pete Townshend originally wrote "Behind Blue Eyes" for his ambitious (and long uncompleted) multimedia concept piece Lifehouse, and in that context, the song was meant to reflect the thoughts of the villain of the piece, who was forced to subsume his more noble impulses in the service of corrupt power structure.
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