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Pete Townshend

Behind Blue Eyes

1983 · via Pete Townshend

Pete Townshend’s earliest release of “Behind Blue Eyes” on file came out in 1983. Pete Townshend wrote it. The earliest release on file is The Who’s, from 1971. Also recorded by Limp Bizkit (released 2003), Roger Daltrey (released 1992) and Sheryl Crow (released 2001), among 211 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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Limp Bizkit's take is the one that loud radio played, but flip it over and hear the writer himself, with Townshend's own recording of the song coming out in 1983. Same song, now in the voice of the man who wrote it.

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Credited writer: Pete Townshend.

Earliest release on file: The Who, 1971.

Other recordings on file · first release year

211 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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