Music

Pictures of Lily

A: PICTURES OF LILY

B: DOCTOR, DOCTOR

UK: Track 604 002. Released: April 21, 1967. Highest chart position: #4.

US: Decca 32156 Released: June 24, 1967. Highest chart position: 51.

PICTURES OF LILY written by Pete Townshend. Produced by Kit Lambert. Recorded at IBC and Pye Studios, London, April 1967.

DOCTOR, DOCTOR written by John Entwistle. Produced by Kit Lambert. Recorded at Ryemuse Sound, London, April 1967.

In a later interview Pete was to say of PICTURES OF LILY, “. . . the idea was inspired by a picture my girlfriend had on her wall of an old vaudeville star – Lily Bayliss. It was an old 1920s postcard and someone had written on it ‘Here’s another picture of Lily – hope you haven’t got this one.'”