My Generation
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 My Generation facts

• The song was named the 11th greatest song by Rolling Stone Magazine on its 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 has been said to have "encapsulated the angst of being a teenager," and has been characterized as a od to the mod counterculture"
• The song was released as a single on 29 October 1965, reaching No
• 2 in the UK, The Who's highest charting single in their home country and No
• 74 in America
• "My Generation" also appeared on The Who'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 it was not included on the EP, and this version was released only 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