"Blue, Red and Grey" is the eighth song on the Who's 1975 album The Who by Numbers.
[1] [It] was a ukulele ditty with John Entwistle adding brass band to the misty middle distance.
It was about nothing at all; it reminded me of an old Smiley Smile Beach Boys number.Although Roger Daltrey, who was absent on the final track, claimed that the song was one of his favorites off the album, Townshend disliked the song and did not want it to be released.
'The song cross-fades with "They Are All In Love" in the 1996 remaster of the album, but in the original version, it did not.
[2] Rolling Stone named the song as the 17th best song by the Who, stating, "'Blue, Red and Grey' was a moment of optimism amid the darkness, a simple, oddly beautiful ode to enjoying life that was written on the ukulele and recorded on a home demo".