I Believe In Everything (song)
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"I Believe in Everything" is a song by John Entwistle. "I Believe in Everything" was released as a single in 1971. The B-side was "
My Size "My Size" is a song by John Entwistle. The song is the first track on his debut solo album '' Smash Your Head Against the Wall'' and ends with the main riff from one of Entwistle's popular compositions, "Boris the Spider". "My Size" was released a ...
". The song also appears on Entwistle's debut solo album, ''
Smash Your Head Against the Wall ''Smash Your Head Against the Wall'' is the debut solo studio album by English rock musician John Entwistle, released in May 1971 by Track Records in the UK and Decca Records in the US. ''Smash Your Head Against the Wall'' was the first solo alb ...
''. When Entwistle was asked about the song in comparison to the rest of the album, he said:
I've been saying a lot of stuff that I didn't really believe in. I sort of wrote it for the heads, really, the people thinking, "ah, so that's where Entwistle's brain's at, he really sort of believes in the devil and hell and all that sort of business." So I wrote a number that touches on reincarnation, then goes into the absurd, with
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and the whole bit and right at the end just to prevent the heads from thinking that I did believe in everything like I was saying, 'cause they always seem to believe that you actually believe in your own words. I believe in some of them but not all of them, so I just wrote the joke in to throw them off, and it's done it.IBELIEVE "The Hypertext Who › Article Archive › The Who Puts the Bomp (1971)"
The song ends with a chorus of "
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Personnel

*John Entwistle – vocals, bass *Dave "Cyrano" Langston – guitar * Jerry Shirley – drums * Keith Moon – backing vocals


References

The Who songs 1971 songs Songs written by John Entwistle Track Records singles {{1970s-rock-song-stub