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The climactic end towards 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 truly superhuman scream. “The song was meant,” the guitarist-composer said in 2006, “to let politicia