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Pete Townshend

Baba O’Riley

1972 · via Nirvana · kept by 1

Pete Townshend’s earliest release of “Baba O’Riley” on file came out in 1972. Pete Townshend wrote it. The earliest release on file is The Who’s, from 1971. Also recorded by Mr. Big (released 1992), Blue Man Group (released 2003) and Dread Zeppelin (released 1996), among 435 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Townshend wrote it, and he put out his own recording of it too, so you get the writer alone with the song instead of a whole band swinging at it. Play that one, then put Nirvana's live take back on and see what survived the trip.

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Credited writer: Pete Townshend.

Earliest release on file: The Who, 1971.

Other recordings on file · first release year

435 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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