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"I walked through it all and felt like spitting on the lot of them". How Pete Townshend's disgust with the hippies inspired The Who's most epic song

The Who in 1971, sitting on grass.

At over eight minutes in length in its original album version, Won’t Get Fooled Again supports the claim by late Motörhead mainman Lemmy that there has never been a heavier bunch of musicians than The Who.

Lemmy didn’t mean they were a heavy metal band, of course, although Roger Daltrey has claimed more than once that The Who were the true originators of the genre.

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