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The Who's Pete Townshend Says 'My Generation' Became 'A Burden'
The Who guitarist Pete Townshend admitted that the band’s most iconic song, ‘My Generation,’ became ‘a burden’
John Entwhistle, Roger Daltrey, Keith Moon and Pete Townshend perform on Dick Clark’s ‘Where the Action Is’Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ImagesThe setlist eventually began to change. “After we started performing [1969 rock opera] Tommy, we would close the show with [‘See Me, Feel Me’], but if there was a desire for an encore, we would end up playing ‘Summertime Blues’ and then follow up with ‘My Generation’ and smash a guitar or whatever it was that we were doing at the time,” he added. Speaking about the song ban on “Switched on Pop,” Townshend contrasted how he dealt with the controversy to the way contemporaries like The Beatles often refused to address serious topics in their early years.
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