"My Size" is a song by the English

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musician

John Entwistle John Alec Entwistle (9 October 194427 June 2002) was an English musician, best known as the bass guitarist for the rock band the Who. Entwistle's music career spanned over four decades. Nicknamed "The Ox" and "Thunderfingers", he was the band ...

. The song is the first track on his debut solo studio album '' Smash Your Head Against the Wall'' (1971) and ends with the main

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from one of Entwistle's popular compositions, "

Boris the Spider "Boris the Spider" is a song written by the Who's bass guitarist, John Entwistle. It appears as the second track on their second studio album ''A Quick One'' (1966). This song is claimed to be Entwistle's first composition, and became a staple o ...

". "My Size" was released as a

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in 1971. When Entwistle was asked about the song, he said simply: "'My Size,' was just written in the studio, we wrote the

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s and then I went home and composed the tune and the words." In another interview Entwistle called "My Size" a sequel to his 1966 song with

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, "

". He said, "I wrote it as a sequel to 'Boris the Spider' for our manager. Our manager wanted me to put 'Boris the Spider' on my album. So I wrote 'My Size' and I wrote it in a sort of code so it sounds as if it were being sung about a woman. Then I stuck the ending on it as a clue. It wasn't a very good clue, I suppose." Entwistle later said: "A lot of people thought that 'My Size' from 'Smash Your Head' was actually the new Who single." The 'My Size' versions on the

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and

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re-releases are completely different. Both of the LPs match the Sundazed version. When the

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were reviewing the album '' So Who's the Bass Player? The Ox Anthology'' (2005) they said that the sound sounded like a

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song, namely "

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Personnel

* John Entwistle – vocals, bass guitar * Dave "Cyrano" Langston – guitar *

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– drums

References

External links

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