855 The Who “My Generation” 1965

Manager Kit Lambert: “I paid my few shillings and went into the back. On a stage made entirely of beer crates…were The High Numbers, ugly in the extreme. Roger with his teeth crossed at the front, moving from foot to foot like a zombie. John immobile, looking like a stationary blob. Townshend like a lanky beanpole. Behind them Keith Moon sitting on a bicycle saddle, with his ridiculous eyes in his round moon face, bashing away for dear life, sending them all up and ogling the audience. They were all quarrelling among themselves between numbers. Yet there was an evil excitement about it all and instantly I know they could become world superstars” (John Perry, Meaty, Beaty, Big & Bouncy: The Who, 1998). The Who Sings My Generation album is listed on the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress.

The Who “My Generation”