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Game Theory, in 1985, live on KALX Berkeley released on the 2014 reissue of Dead Center (Omnivore Recordings).

The Hollies, in 1979, on album Five Three One - Double Seven O Four.

Daltrey's version was released as a single (apart from in the UK) and peaked at number 20 in the Netherlands, but failed to chart elsewhere. This cover version features Keith Moon (drums) and John Entwistle (bass) of The Who, as well as Jimmy McCulloch (guitar) of Paul McCartney's Wings. In 1977, Roger Daltrey covered the song for his third solo album One of the Boys. Murray Head, 1994 Roger Daltrey's version The occasion seemed apt for a re-release. Two days later a friend, just returned from L.A., rang me to tell me they'd seen placards with that same old phrase. Simpson case and they showed a note pinned to his gate on which was written "Say it ain't so Joe". Shortly afterwards I was watching another documentary on the O.J.

The song is on an album which has sold over a million copies and was produced by Paul Samwell-Smith, who recently decided to re-record the song. It is also a plea from myself to the kind of 'Joe Public' who in fear of losing face, refuse to relinquish their faith in a fallen idol. The song is about heroes and their "Clay feet'. His fans hung around the stadium chanting "Say it ain't so Joe". The editor likens the situation to a scandal in the twenties, when Joe Jackson, the famous baseball player, was rumoured to have taken a bribe to sink his team in the final of the World series. The presenter was asking the editor of a small town newspaper outside Washington, how, in the face of conclusive evidence and proof, his readers could still show such undying support for the president they elected. "Say It Ain't So, Joe" was provoked by a seventies documentary on Richard Nixon prior to his resignation.

He wrote the following comment in the liner notes when he re-released the song in 1995 on the album When You're in Love:

According to Head, he wrote the song about fallen heroes.