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The Who tickets can be bought or sold online at StubHub.com. It’s one of those long-standing musical feuds that can never be settled: The Rolling Stones or The Who? Boil this down and it’s a question people hadn’t asked in decades: Mods or rockers? The stylish, hip, moped-driving mods and the snarling, rough-and-tumble rockers held the music press’ attention as the ‘60s wore on, but both the Stones and The Who outgrew these labels, evolving their music and defining themselves as musical legends outside of narrow genres or the sounds that typified a specific era. Though they’re clothes were clean-cut, the band’s life is infamous for being anything but. While partying and a frantic, drug-fueled lifestyle was definitely a large part of their mystique. It wasn’t just myth, though—it was reality. The band’s anti-authoritarian venom, expressed most clearly on the album (and it’s film adaptation) Quadrophenia, ultimately set the mold for many more of the young and angry bands that would rise in England a decade later. The fragmented identity at the center of that concept album takes on his parents, the police, and the state because there’s no place for him to stand in what was then the modern English world. Similarly, the punk movement that developed in England was a youth culture that drew fans of people who felt disenfranchised and unable—or unwilling—to fit into society’s mold. Though the bands and fans that fueled that slice of Britannia’s culture abhorred the peace, love and understanding of the ‘60s, the snotty attitudes of The Who were definitely something they could relate to. "My Generation," probably The Who’s best known and loved song, summed up sentiments that would be shared not just by the disenfranchised who bought The Who tickets in the ‘60s, but future generations of teens who didn’t feel that society represented them or their interests. Written by Andrew Good and sponsored by StubHub. StubHub sells sports tickets, concert tickets, theater tickets and more to just about any event in the world. Don’t miss The Who tickets.
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