How Pete Townshend turned youthful disgust into The Who's biggest hit. "I didn't like being confronted with money and the class system and power"

Like all Pete Townshend’s best songs, The Who's My Generation was a thrilling collision of body and brain. My Generation (Stereo Version) - YouTube Watch OnManagement saw the song differently, and pushed for a heavier riff and – after Townshend played them John Lee Hooker’s Stuttering Blues – the vocal tic that went down in history. Both as a single – and on the Marquee stage, where the song had its first live airing on November 2 – My Generation let all four members shine. So I resentfully dedicated My Generation to the Queen Mother…”My Generation | The Who | The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour - YouTube Watch OnThe song would influence a generation of up-and-coming rockers, including Alice Cooper, whose all-star Hollywood Vampires – named after the infamous drinking club whose members included Cooper and Keith Moon – play My Generation to this day. “Being a mod, I always thought My Generation was a fucking great song, an unbelievable song," said Kenny Jones, Moon's replacement in The Who.