THE GREATEST SONG EVER MADE THINGS TO KNOW BEFORE YOU BUY

The climactic finish for the Who’s best album is rock’s – and Pete Townshend’s – greatest declaration of independence: an epic storm of doubt, refusal, hypno-minimalist synthesizer and rolling-thunder electric power chords capped by A really superhuman scream. “The song was meant,” the guitarist-composer said in 2006, “to Enable pol