The 20yo Townsend owned a Packard hearse, in addition to kept it parked inwards front end of his identify on the route betwixt Clarence House in addition to Buckingham Palace. One day, the car was gone.
“One solar daytime I came dorsum in addition to it was gone. It turned out that [the Queen Mother] had it moved, because her married adult man had been buried inwards a like vehicle in addition to it reminded her of him. When I went to collect it, they wanted ii hundred in addition to 50 quid. I’d solely paid 30 for it inwards the starting fourth dimension place.”
They wanted ii hundred in addition to 50 pounds to unloosen the hearse, only Townsend said he'd solely paid 30 pounds for it.
As Townshend has told the story, he wrote those lyrics on a develop ride from London to Southampton—a develop ride necessitated yesteryear the towing away of his 1935 Packard hearse
This was the smashing indignity that prompted Townshend to pen the immortal lyric, “Hope I choke earlier I larn old.”
In 1985, he went on to say Rolling Stone that “‘My Generation’ was really much close trying to honour a identify inwards society.” Later inwards 1989, during a Good Morning America interview, Townshend spoke close the famous trouble “I promise I choke earlier I larn old” in addition to said that for him, “old” meant “very rich.”
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