A REVIEW OF WHAT IS THE GREATEST SONG EVER WRITTEN

The climactic finish into 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 ability chords capped by A really superhuman scream. “The song was meant,” the guitarist-composer mentioned in 2006, “to Permit poli