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But the song that transformed everything for the band\u2019s career, also revolutionized rock history. With \u201cMy Generation\u201d The Who created a rock anthem which would define a generation\u2019s identity and represent the spirit of rock \u2018n roll for ages to come.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three of The Who\u2019s founding members (Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle and Pete Townshend) all grew up in Acton London, where they attended Acton County Grammar School together. Entwistle and Townshend started playing music together as early as 1959, when they formed a trad-jazz group called The Confederates. Around the same time, Daltrey (who was a year older)\u00a0 moved to a new neighborhood. By chance, he ran into his old classmate, Entwistle, who was carrying his home-made bass guitar down the street.\u00a0 Daltry recruited him into his band, the Detours, and Entwistle soon brought in Townshend.\u00a0 By 1964, they had changed their name to The Who. The band worked with several drummers before they met Keith Moon, who had been playing semi-professionally with a group called The Beachcombers. After playing a few songs with the band (in which he smashed through a drum head) the guys were impressed with his high-energy playing and attitude. They immediately invited him to join the band.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Who began to gain a reputation playing clubs around London. Their first manager, Pete Meaden, marketed them into London\u2019s Mod scene, known for its smart-looking suits, flashy vespas and love of Black American music, especially Motown. While the band were not exactly Mods themselves, Townshend describes the Mod\u2019s as having \u201cadopted\u201d the group, an association which helped The Who gain popularity and traction in the UK music industry.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Who also began shocking audiences with their wild stage presence and destructive antics. For Townshend, the act of smashing guitar started by accident. After breaking the headstock of his guitar on a low ceiling during a gig in 1964, he then proceeded to destroy the whole instrument. He explained to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rolling Stone <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in 1968:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c[The guitar] being so precious to me&#8230;I was expecting everybody to go, \u2018wow, he\u2019s broken his guitar, he\u2019s broken his guitar,\u2019 but nobody did anything, which made me kind of angry in a way and determined to get this precious event noticed by the audience. I proceeded to make a big thing of breaking the guitar. I pounded all over the stage with it, and I threw the bits on the stage, and I picked up my spare guitar and carried on as though I really meant to do it.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Word quickly spread of the spectacle and from then on, audiences expected Townshend to repeat it at each show. And while it was an accident, it did tap into art and philosophical thinking that Townshend had been introduced to in art college &#8211; auto destructive art. In December 1962, Townshend had attended a lecture by Auto-Destructive Art pioneer Gustav Metzger entitled: \u201cAuto-Destructive Art, Auto Creative Art: The Struggle for the Machine Arts of the Future\u201d while enrolled in Ealing Art College. Looking back, Townshend reflected:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cGustav Metzger came to my college to do lectures. It was called the \u2018Destruction in Art Symposium.\u2019 Yoko Ono did that thing where she had her clothes cut up, and he slashed his way through a canvas with a samurai sword. The next thing I know, I\u2019m breaking up guitars at gigs. Then I have the other guys in the band go \u2018what a load of pompous, pretentious drivel!\u2019 and I go, \u2018No, it&#8217;s auto-destructive art!\u2019 The guitar became, when it was electrified, in my case, an instrument of control aggression and latent violence. People say to me \u201cIt\u2019s just stagecraft, isn\u2019t it? Just showing off, smashing up your guitar.\u2019 To me it was far, far more than that.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The band\u2019s rebellious attitude in performance would also carry into Townshend songwriting. Songs like \u201cMy Generation\u201d and later, \u201cWon\u2019t Get Fooled Again,\u201d\u00a0 showcased The Who as a band with attitude &#8211; a persona which would influence generations of rebellious rockers after them. The band\u2019s first single, \u201cI Can\u2019t Explain\u201d was released on January 15, 1965 and peaked at number 8 on the UK charts. \u00a0 But it wasn\u2019t until the release of the band\u2019s second single, \u201cMy Generation,\u201d that the Who really began to revolutionize rock history.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The story behind \u201cMy Generation\u201d has spawned many fabrications over the years, but the song\u2019s meaning undeniably lies in the disconnect that the post-war generation of British youth felt from their parents\u2019 and grandparents\u2019 generations during the sixties. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Townshend recently reflected in 2019:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018My Generation&#8217; was inspired by the fact that I felt that as artists we had to draw a line between all those people who had been involved in the Second World War and all those people who were born right at the end of the war. Those people had sacrificed so much for us, but they weren\u2019t able to give us anything &#8211; no guidance, no inspiration&#8230;nothing, really. We were what we used to describe ourselves as disenfranchised. We weren\u2019t allowed to join the army, we weren\u2019t allowed to speak, we were expected to \u2018shut up and enjoy the peace.\u2019 And we decided not to do that.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The lyrics in \u201cMy Generation\u201d highlight the disdain of the adult generation towards the youth culture.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People try to put us d-down (talkin&#8217; &#8217;bout my generation)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just because we get around (talkin&#8217; &#8217;bout my generation)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Things they do look awful c-c-cold (talkin&#8217; &#8217;bout my generation)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I hope I die before I get old (talkin&#8217; &#8217;bout my generation)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The song charts out a litany of the criticism levied against the post-war generation. Roger Daltrey\u2019s stutter on the song further sparked controversy. At first, the BBC banned the song, concerned Daltrey\u2019s performance would be offensive to those who stutter. But after it was picked up and made popular by pirate radio stations, the BBC eventually lifted the ban. Producer Shel Talmy recalled: \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roger was screwing around during rehearsal, and decided just to stutter, and I said, \u201cyou know what, you oughta keep that in.\u201d <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In particular, the stutter on F-consonant on the word \u201cfade\u201d was particularly controversial because of the implied expletive. Every element of the lyrics and vocal performance hit on the anxieties of the adult generation and their criticisms towards sixties youth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Further, to 1965 audiences, the song was, to put it simply, noisy. The Who performed with a harder and much more distorted sound than was common at the time &#8211; predating both punk and heavy metal. Townshend\u2019s simple but strong guitar line parallels the character of Daltrey&#8217;s defiant vocals. Entwistle\u2019s Fender Jazz Bass rattles his Marshall fifty-watt amp, mesmerizing audiences with its power. His solo is often considered the first electric bass solo in music history. And of course, Keith Moon\u2019s playing on the drums, sounded like no one else. With each line of the call and response of the verse, he rocks back into the groove, suddenly breaking at the end of the phrase. His performance is never just about keeping a beat. He constantly adds fills and interesting rhythmic gestures. The song ends with Moon completely letting loose on the drums as the rest of the band plays a noisy closing vamp for almost a whole minute. The sound is completely unlike anything else at the time.The feedback from Townshend\u2019s guitar only adds to the chaos of the song\u2019s iconic ending.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMy Generation\u201d was produced by Shel T<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">almy who had just produced the Kinks and their seminal recording \u201cYou Really Got Me.\u201d In an effort to impress Talmy in late 1974, Townshend wrote The Who\u2019s first single &#8211; \u201cI Can\u2019t Explain\u201d in a similar style to that of the Kinks. Talmy says it only took about 8 bars of the song to convince him that The Who were the greatest rock band he had heard in England, and he immediately agreed to work with them. After releasing \u201cI Can\u2019t Explain\u201d, the band got to work on \u201cMy Generation.\u201d\u00a0 They recorded the single on October 13, 1965 at IBC Studios in London, where they also produced the rest of their debut album of the same name.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Talmy particularly remembers how he recorded the drums &#8211; using 12 mics including overheads, kick drums and two mics on the snare and toms. He refers to Moon as his favorite member of the group to work, despite his wild antics. He recalled: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe only story I can tell you about it is Keith &#8211; who was known as a wildman drummer &#8211; I said, &#8220;Do me a favor Keith. I don&#8217;t care how close you get&#8230; don&#8217;t hit the damn mics. They&#8217;re too expensive.&#8221; He said, &#8220;No problem. I won&#8217;t do that.&#8221; And he never did. He got within a millimeter or two, but he never hit a mic.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Glyn Johns was the recording engineer for the album.\u00a0 He would later go on to work on the Beatles\u2019 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get Back <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sessions for their final album <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Let It Be, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and to produce The Who\u2019s legendary 1971 album <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who\u2019s Next. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Johns later reflected that he knew they were making rock history beginning with the Who\u2019s earliest tracks: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere was absolutely a sense of the possibility of rules being changed, of the enormity of what was going on. One had no idea whether the general public would pick up on it the same way I did. But I can remember very clearly the session for \u2018My Generation.\u2019 \u2026. A bass solo? A stuttering vocal? Not to mention feedback or the song itself. Extraordinary! It was certainly special to me at the time. Are you kidding? You\u2019d have to be deaf not to get excited by that.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMy Generation\u201d was released by Brunswick on October 29, 1965 as a single, peaking at number 2 in the UK &#8212; their highest charting single of their career in the UK. The single only peaked at 74 in the US, which may be due to the fact that Brunskwick\u2019s US side (Decca) didn\u2019t quite know what to do with the recording. Many of the record label\u2019s executives even thought that they had received a bad tape &#8212; because of all of the feedback on the record. Despite their hesitancy, the song has enjoyed over a half-century of fame in the US as one of rock history\u2019s most influential tracks. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rolling Stone <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">named the song number 11 on their \u201c500 Greatest Songs of All Time\u201d, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame named it in their list of \u201c500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll\u201d. It was even inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for \u201chistorical, artistic, and significant\u201d value.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cMy Generation\u201d remains a critical piece of rock history because of how it shaped music and even rock\u2019s identity. It defined rock by its attitude. Perhaps one of the most iconic moments in the song occurs in the first verse when Daltrey cries out \u201cI hope I die before I get old\u201d. In a song all about generational conflict, this declaration asserted the youth culture as the true leaders of the future.\u00a0 And as the post-war generation aged, the song remained an anthem of their identity- one which constantly redefined their conception of aging. As the decades progressed, they declared that rock\u2019s spirit would transcend age. In 2006, Pete Townshend explained what the line meant to him, as he performed the song in his sixties:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8221; \u2018I hope I die before I get old.\u2019 This time I am not being ironic. I am 61. I hope I die before I get old. I hope I die while I still feel this alive, this young, this healthy, this happy, and this fulfilled. But that may not happen. I may get creaky, cranky, and get cancer, and die in some hospice with a massive resentment against everyone I leave behind. That\u2019s being old, for some people, and probably none of us who don\u2019t die accidentally can escape being exposed to it. But I am not old yet. If getting older means I continue to cherish the lessons every passing day brings, more and more, then whatever happens, I think I\u2019ll be happy to die before I get old, or after I get old, or any time in between.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With \u201cMy Generation\u201d The Who created an anthem that would not only define their generation but also transform rock history.\u00a0 A song of power, identity, attitude and the epitome of rock\u2019s spirit, it has lived on for over a half a century, teaching new generations what it means to rock \u2018n roll.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Written by Caitlin Vaughn Carlos\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch the video below to hear The Who&#8217;s &#8216;My Generation&#8217;!<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_raw_html]JTNDaWZyYW1lJTIwd2lkdGglM0QlMjI1NjAlMjIlMjBoZWlnaHQlM0QlMjIzMTUlMjIlMjBzcmMlM0QlMjJodHRwcyUzQSUyRiUyRnd3dy55b3V0dWJlLmNvbSUyRmVtYmVkJTJGa3dXalMtNkd4NEklMjIlMjB0aXRsZSUzRCUyMllvdVR1YmUlMjB2aWRlbyUyMHBsYXllciUyMiUyMGZyYW1lYm9yZGVyJTNEJTIyMCUyMiUyMGFsbG93JTNEJTIyYWNjZWxlcm9tZXRlciUzQiUyMGF1dG9wbGF5JTNCJTIwY2xpcGJvYXJkLXdyaXRlJTNCJTIwZW5jcnlwdGVkLW1lZGlhJTNCJTIwZ3lyb3Njb3BlJTNCJTIwcGljdHVyZS1pbi1waWN0dXJlJTIyJTIwYWxsb3dmdWxsc2NyZWVuJTNFJTNDJTJGaWZyYW1lJTNF[\/vc_raw_html][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] In 1965, The Who were on their way to becoming one of the biggest bands in rock music history, with their legendary stage shows, powerhouse sound, and rebellious attitude. 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