FORWARD INTO THE PAST

Here is a fact that seems almost impossible to believe: It has been over 20 years since Pete Townshend, angriest of the four angry young men in the Who, wrote, “Hope I die before I get old.” But it’s 1986, not 1965. Several generations of wild youth have mouthed and spat those fightin’ words, only to grow up, carry on at school, and then move: to responsible jobs and/or marriage. For God’s sake, Pete Townshend’s two daughters are verging perilously close to the age he was when he wrote “My Generation.”