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  Cover MyGenerationUKjpg
  Artist The Who
  From Album My Generation
  Released November 5, 1965
  Format Vinyl Record (7")
  Recorded October 13, 1965
  Genre Proto-punk , Hard Rock
  Length 3:19
  Label Brunswick 05944 (UK)
  Producer Shel Talmy
  Chart Position <ul><li>&nbsp&nbsp#74 ( USA )</li></ul>
  Reviews <nowiki></nowiki>
  Last Single Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere <br />(1965)
  This Single '''My Generation'''<br />(1965)
  Next Single Substitute <br />(1966)


was one of the biggest early hits of the . Written by Pete Townshend in 1965 for rebellious British youths called Mods , it expressed their feeling that older people "just don't get it".

The song was released as a 's 1965 debut album, '' My Generation '' (''The Who Sings My Generation'' in the United States), and in greatly extended form on their live album '' Live At Leeds '' (1970). The Who re-recorded the song for the ''Ready Steady Who!'' EP in 1966, but this version was only released in 1995 on the remastered version of the '' A Quick One '' album. The main difference between this version and the original is that instead of the hail of Feedback which ends the original, the band play a chaotic rendition of Edward Elgar 's " Land Of Hope And Glory ". In the album's linear notes the song is credited to both Townshend and Elgar.


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