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Songs Written by Pete Townshend: My Generation, Won't Get Fooled Again, Love, Reign O'er Me, Baba O'riley, Pinball Wizard, I Can't Explain
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-10-25.
ISBN 9781155278957
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Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Chapters: My Generation, Won't Get Fooled Again, Love, Reign O'er Me, Baba O'riley, Pinball Wizard, I Can't Explain, I Can See for Miles, Behind Blue Eyes, Eminence Front, Who Are You, Pictures of Lily, Squeeze Box, Magic Bus, Substitute, the Kids Are Alright, I'm a Boy, the Real Me, Wire & Glass, It's Not Enough, 5.15, Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere, a Legal Matter, Go to the Mirror!, I'm Free, Let My Love Open the Door, I've Known No War, the Seeker, Athena, You Better You Bet, Happy Jack, See Me, Feel Me, Slip Kid, Tommy, Can You Hear Me?, the Ox, I'm One, La-La-La-Lies, I Can't Reach You. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 123. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: "My Generation" is a song by the British rock group The Who, which became a hit and one of their most recognizable songs. It has entered the rock and roll pantheon as one of the most celebrated, cited, and referenced songs in the idiom; it was named the 11th greatest song by Rolling Stone on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and 13th on VH1's list of the 100 Greatest Songs of Rock & Roll. It's also part of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll and is inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for "historical, artistic and significant" value. In 2009 it was named the 37th Greatest Hard Rock Song by VH1. The song, composed by Pete Townshend at the age of twenty in 1965, was written for rebellious British youths called Mods, and expressed their feeling that older people "just don't get it". The song was released as a single on 5 November 1965, reaching #2 in the UK, the Who's highest charting single in their home country and #74 in America. "My Generation" also appeared on The Who's 1965 debut album, My Generation (The Who Sings My Generation in the Unit...http://booksllc.net/?id=1124305
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