'My Generation' was released as a single on 5 November 1965, reaching #2 in the UK and #74 in America. Townshend reportedly wrote the song on a train and is said to have been inspired by the 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. ‘My Generation’ was very much about trying to find a place in society.