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"Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere" is a song by the English rock band the Who, written by Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend. It was released in the UK on a non-album single in May 1965 and in the US in June 1965.

Background and composition
"Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere" is credited to both Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend. Townshend wrote the music in its entirety, as well as the first verse, and Daltrey composed the rest of the lyrics. Townshend's initial inspiration for the song was the American jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker; Townshend later expressed that while Parker had issues with drugs and alcohol, his jazz playing "released him and freed his spirit... I wanted to write a song about that, a spiritual song."

Ian MacDonald writes that while some electric guitarists in the early-1960s regularly incorporated feedback into their live performances, Townshend was the only in 1964 using feedback as "pure noise".

The song's lyric's contend with authority with what musicologist Walter Everett terms "antiauthoritarian bravado".

Recording
Townshend plays a Rickenbacker twelve-string electric guitar. The instrument, noted for its jangly sound, had became among increasingly common among British and American rock groups after George Harrison of the Beatles began employing it in 1964.

Musicologist Walter Everett suggests Townshend may have invented "the pickup-switch toggle", where a guitar's pickup setting is altered while a note or chord is sustained. The toggling is heard twice during the song; first, over a single note from 1:11–1:25, then later over a chord from 2:34–2:39.

Release
The song reached in the UK on Record Retailer chart. In Belgium's French-speaking region of Wallonia, the song was featured on Ultratop's Tipparade chart, indicating it remained outside of the top 50.

The song became the theme song for Ready, Steady, Go!, a British pop music television show.

Critical reception
In his review of the single for NME, Derek Johnson writes that the song contains "just about every conceivable gimmick", culminating in the guitar solo which "erupts into a veritable explosion of sound." He concludes that the record "commands attention" and expects it will likely sell well as a result.

In the August 1970 issue of Creem, Lester Bangs provided a lengthy review of the single, declaring that it may be the best song the Who had ever recorded.

In a retrospective assessment, author Ian MacDonald describes "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere" as an "outrageous single" which manipulates guitar feedback "spectacularly". He categorizes it as one of several mould-breaking singles to appear in 1965, including the Yardbirds' "For Your Love", Unit 4 + 2's "Concrete and Clay" and the Beach Boys' "The Little Girl I Once Knew".