Released in the US as Decca 7-32670, it hit the Billboard charts on 11 April 1970, eventually peaking at number 44. Released in the UK as track 604036 on 21 March 1970, "The Seeker" reached number 19 in the charts. Nicky Hopkins plays piano on '"The Seeker". Similarly, Townshend was an opponent of drug abuse throughout this period. Pamphlet God in a Pill? famously lambasted drug use as a means of consciousness expansion. Meher Baba, a Persian-Indian mystic whose 1966 treatise/ Townshend was a devotee of the teachings of The Beatles, and advocate of psychedelic drugs The lyrics name-check several people who had high profiles in contemporary pop culture: musicians The Who revived the song briefly inĢ000 and then extensively starting on the Home Office immigration enforcement officers who raided a carwash and chased a 23-year-old asylum seeker before he fell through a roof contributed to his death, an inquest jury has. I don't think we even got to play it in the States." However, the Who performed "The Seeker" for about two weeks on theirġ970 American tour. The alligator turned into an elephant and finally stampeded itself to death on stages around England. But that's always where the trouble starts, in the swamp. The Seekers) Columbia Records, EMI Music: Tom Springfield: 3:02: Study War No More (Down By The Riverside) 1968 The Seekers Eddystone Light: 1963 The Seekers Emerald City: 1967.
It sounded great in the mosquito-ridden swamp I made it up in-Florida at three in the morning drunk out of my brain with Tom Wright and John Wolff. The Seekers) Columbia Records, EMI Music: Keith Grant: 2:14: Don't Think Twice It's Alright: 1965 Bob Dylan: A World of Our Own (a.k.a. Then Kit had a tooth pulled, breaking his jaw, and we did it ourselves. We did it once at my home studio, then at IBC where we normally worked then with "It suffered from being the first thing we did after Tommy, and also from being recorded a few too many times. "I suppose I like this least of all the stuff", wrote Townshend the following year. It just kind of covers a whole area where the guy's being fantastically tough and ruthlessly nasty and he's being incredibly selfish and he's hurting people, wrecking people's homes, abusing his heroes, he's accusing everyone of doing nothing for him and yet at the same time he's making a fairly valid statement, he's getting nowhere, he's doing nothing and the only thing he really can't be sure of is his death, and that at least dead, he's going to get what he wants. Quite loosely, "The Seeker" was just a thing about what I call Divine Desperation, or just Desperation.
Around the time of the song's release, Townshend explained its meaning in an interview with Rolling Stone: