THE WHO Released Their Influential Debut LP ‘MY GENERATION’ Today 60 Years Ago
Significant longplayers from yesteryear
3 December 2025
THE WHO released their influential debut LP MY GENERATION
on 3 December 1965, that’s 60 years ago today.
Rolling Stone Magazine said: “With its ferocious blend of grungy
distortion, rumbling bass and percussion, and brutish vocals, this album
became the blueprint for much of the subsequent garage rock, heavy metal,
and punk.
My Generation positively shoved at the boundaries of popular music.
Townshend’s fiercely original guitar experiments here predate the
innovations of his later American rival Jimi Hendrix.”
Pete Townshend: “The music we play has to be tomorrow’s,
the things we have to say have to be said today, and the reason
for bothering is yesterday.”
John Entwistle: “This band makes sure that we have whole sections of
stuff that are free form so that they don’t know what we are doing next.”
Keith Moon: “Give me a mandolin and I’ll play you rock ‘n’ roll.”
Roger Daltrey: “Rock & roll was the only thing I wanted to get into.”
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