The Kids Are Allright

Summer Of 1966 – August 12th – Today 60 Years Ago THE WHO Released Single ‘THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT’

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Every day of this summer we go back to the same summer day somewhere in history

12 August 2026

THE WHO released their single THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT
on 12 August 1966, today 60 years ago.

Pete Townshend: “When I wrote this song I was nothing but a kid, trying to work
out right and wrong through all the things I did. I was kind of practising with my life.
I was kind of taking chances in a marriage with my wife. I took some stuff and I drank
some booze. There was almost nothing that I didn’t try to use. And somehow I’m alright.”

The song appeared on their debut LP My Generation. It wasn’t a big hit,
reaching No. 41 in the UK and No. 85 in the US, but it became an anthem
for the Mod subculture of Britain in the 1960s.

“Sometimes, I feel I gotta get away
Bells chime, I know I gotta get away
And I know if I don’t, I’ll go out of my mind
Better leave her behind with the kids, they’re alright
The kids are alright, the kids are alright, the kids are alright”

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THE WHO Released Their Influential Debut LP ‘MY GENERATION’ Today 60 Years Ago

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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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