LITTLE KNOWN FACTS ABOUT THE GREATEST SONG EVER MADE.

The climactic end on 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 electricity chords capped by A very superhuman scream. “The song was intended,” the guitarist-composer mentioned in 2006, “to Enable poli