Editing My Generation (section)

==Inspiration==
Townshend reportedly wrote the song on a train and is said to have been inspired by the [[Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother|Queen Mother]], who is alleged to have had Townshend's 1935 [[Packard]] [[hearse]] towed off a street in [[Belgravia]] because she was offended by the sight of it during her daily drive through the neighbourhood.<ref>{{cite web|title= Amazing Journey: The Life of Pete Townshend – Chapter 2 |url= http://www.townshendbio.com/Chap%202.htm |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071202011326/http://www.townshendbio.com/Chap%202.htm |archive-date= 2 December 2007}}</ref> Townshend has also credited [[Mose Allison]]'s "[[Young Man Blues]]" as the inspiration for the song, saying "Without Mose I wouldn't have written 'My Generation'."<ref>{{cite web|first= Paul |last= Bernays |title= Mose Allison – Director's Statement |date= 1 December 2005 |publisher= [[BBC Four]] |url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/music/features/mose-bernays.shtml |archive-date= 25 February 2009 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090225171901/http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/music/features/mose-bernays.shtml}}</ref> Townshend told ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' in 1985 that "'My Generation' was very much about trying to find a place in society."<ref>{{cite magazine|title= My Generation – The Who |magazine= [[Rolling Stone]] |date= 9 December 2004 |url= https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6595856/my_generation |archive-date= 9 April 2010 |url-status= dead |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100409085315/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6595856/my_generation}}</ref>

On a later interview for ''[[Good Morning America]]'', in 1989, the band was discussing the upcoming 1989 tour to celebrate the 20th anniversary of ''[[Tommy (The Who album)|Tommy]]'', and Townshend talked about the famous line "I hope I die before I get old." He said that, for him, when he wrote the lyrics, "old" meant "very rich".