Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p "'Give Blood'" is a song by Pete Townshend, The guitarist for The Who. The song is the opening track for Pete Townshend's fourth solo album a concept album titled "White City: A Novel" and was released as a single.When Pete Townshend was asked about the song he said:Give Blood was one of the tracks I didn't even play on. I brought in Simon Phillips, Pino Palladino and David Gilmour simply because I wanted to see my three favourite musicians of the time playing on something and, in fact, I didn't have a song for them to work on, and sat down very, very quickly and rifled threw a box of stuff, said to Dave, "Do one of those kind of ricky-ticky-ricky-ticky things, and I'll shout 'Give Blood!' in the microphone every five minutes and let's see what happens." And that's what happened. Then I constructed the song around what they did.The single failed to chart in the US or UK but reached number 5 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Charts.[citation needed]. }
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- Give_Blood_(song) abstract ""'Give Blood'" is a song by Pete Townshend, The guitarist for The Who. The song is the opening track for Pete Townshend's fourth solo album a concept album titled "White City: A Novel" and was released as a single.When Pete Townshend was asked about the song he said:Give Blood was one of the tracks I didn't even play on. I brought in Simon Phillips, Pino Palladino and David Gilmour simply because I wanted to see my three favourite musicians of the time playing on something and, in fact, I didn't have a song for them to work on, and sat down very, very quickly and rifled threw a box of stuff, said to Dave, "Do one of those kind of ricky-ticky-ricky-ticky things, and I'll shout 'Give Blood!' in the microphone every five minutes and let's see what happens." And that's what happened. Then I constructed the song around what they did.The single failed to chart in the US or UK but reached number 5 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Charts.[citation needed]".