The legendary WHO guitarist Pete Townshend He admitted that the band’s most iconic song, “My Generation”, became “a burden”.
“I hate playing it,” Townshend, 79, Tuesday, March 25, Podcast episode “Transport on Pop”.
“My Generation” defined an era of rebellion of the 1960s with its heavy proto metallic sound and the texts lit by Townshend, where he stated, “I hope to die before I get old.”
Townshend reflected in the influence of “my generation” during his interview in Podcast, admitting that his deceptive style prevented him from the long -term plane.
“Well, I think that for the members of the group, for me and the members of the group, there was a burden,” he said. “We were still playing it as our closing song in the late 20s. He felt the conversation was over.”
The musician continued, “When we first went to New York in 1967, there were children calling for Vietnam, but the Vietnam issue was over and we were still making my ‘generation’ on stage and I was probably destroying guitar and (battery) Keith Moon was still destroying his batteries and we were still doing it in ’68.”
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Michael Ochs/Getty Images archivesThe list of lists eventually began to change. “After we started performing (1969 Rock Opera) soughWe would close the show with (‘see me, feel me’), but if there was a desire for an encore, we would end up playing ‘Blues Summertime’ and then followed with ‘my generation’ and destroy a guitar or whatever we were doing at the time, “he added.” There were long periods where we would try to do it. My explanations as to why I was doing it was not being accepted. “
Townshend admitted that his disappointments with “My Generation” grew only over time, especially after fans were waiting to hear the song at every show.
“We didn’t want to continue playing it at the end of the show,” he admitted. “And I have to say, (Roger Daltrey, Who’s singer) and made some shows for adolescent cancer recently at Royal Albert Hall and we played ‘my generation’ and I hate playing it. It is’ hard to play. Changes the key and I don’t have that great, big, big, I used to have when I was young.”
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“My Belt” was extremely controversial at the time of its release in 1965, with the BBC initially refusing to play it on the radio because Dalrey’s stuttering vocals were considered offensive to current stuttering.
The dirty anthemic message became known anyway, forcing the BBC to give up its ban and let the “my generation” return to the tables. After all, he reached no.2 in the single UK table in 1965, although he was hit only with number 74 in the SH.BA
Speaking about the ban on the song “Changing to Pop”, Townshend opposed how he dealt with controversy about how contemporaries like Beatles often refused to address serious topics in their early years.
“When you look at the early interviews with the Beatles, what they did is whenever a serious question was asked, they joked,” he noted. “I tried to answer the questions seriously, but I knew there were subjects I had to stay away from. I would have defended myself really brave in stuttering. It was not thought to be a piss for stuttering people. It was thought to be growing up in this group of boys who took so many amphetamines that they couldn’t speak.”
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The WHO last performed in the benefit of adolescent cancer confidence in March 2024, where “my generation” was part of a group filled with their 1960s and 1970s hits.
Townshend and Daltrey will be reunited at this year’s concert for adolescents at Cancer Trust on Thursday, March 27, at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The duo will be supported by Level 42, which had hits with “something for you” of 1985 and “Love in Love” of 1985.
