The Who: Who's For A Merry Xmas!
Keith Altham, NME, 24 December 1966
WHO'S FOR a merry Christmas, then if we are to judge by their seasonal bounce up into the NME Top Twenty this week with 'Happy Jack', the newest composition from the bizarre pen of Pete Townshend.
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