Australian singles charts:
I’m a Boy entered the Kent charts on 1 October 1966 and peaked at #11. The song was #63 on the Top 100 of 1966.
Songwriter:
Pete Townshend
Producer:
Kit Lambert
Record label of Australian release:
Polydor International
Songfacts:
I’m a Boy is about a boy whose mother wants him to be a girl, while the boy longs to assert his real sexual identity. The controversial subject of cross-dressing was probably the reason why this failed to reach the American Top 100.
Pete Townshend wrote this for a rock opera he was composing called Quads which was about a future where parents could choose the sex of their children. That opera never happened.
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/the-who/im-a-boy
Lyrics:
One girl was called Jean Marie
Another little girl was called Felicity
Another little girl was Sally Joy
The other was me, and I’m a boy
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