"false"^^ . "John Entwistle" . "6"^^ . . "The Who" . . . "a87f7f4a-16ef-4068-ac61-b365756b610e" . "Track Records singles" . "147.0"^^ . "Song recordings produced by Glyn Johns" . "MCA Records singles" . "Single (music)" . "Pete Townshend" . "The Who songs" . "May 1972" . "false"^^ . "2172988" . "false"^^ . "GBAKW9601029" . "The Real Me" . "2002-10-13"^^ . "Song recordings produced by Pete Townshend" . "The Real Me" . "Track Records" . . "1974-01-12"^^ . "5714dee925ac0d8aee554343" . "-5.8"^^ . "1973 songs" . "Songs written by Pete Townshend" . "english" . . "306215"^^ . "-0.231962"^^ . . "1974 singles" . . "-0.467484"^^ . . "210000.0"^^ . "817" . "MCA Inc." . . "%22The Real Me%22 is a song written by Pete Townshend on The Who's second full-scale rock opera, Quadrophenia in 1973. This is the second track on the album, although it is the first with lyrics. It concerns a boy named Jimmy, a young English Mod with four distinct personalities. The song describes how he angrily deals with several individuals to identify %22the real me%22.The song features a virtuoso bass performance by John Entwistle. According to a 1996 interview with Entwistle by Goldmine Magazine, the bass part was recorded on the first take. Entwistle claimed he was %22joking around%22 when he played the part, but the band loved it and used it in the final version.Aside from the verses about the psychiatrist, mother and preacher, Townshend's original demo of the song on his solo album Scoop 3 includes another verse about rock and roll in general. The arrangement of the song is also much slower than what it would end up as in Quadrophenia.Townshend has always referred to it as %22Can You See the Real Me%22, rather than the more accepted abbreviated title." . . . "1"^^ .