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”

Pete Townshend has explained that My Generation, The Who's breakthrough 1965 single, was born as much from anger at wealth and class privilege as from youthful rebellion. Although the song is best remembered for its defiant "hope I die before I get old" refrain, Townshend later revealed that the lin