Pete Townshend gets airborne during the Who's headlining set at the VH1 Rock Honors filmed at UCLA's Pauley Pavillion on July 12, 2008.

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While making a full meal of their most delectable concept, a pirate-radio broadcast, the Who's finest album exemplifies how pop this famously psychedelic year was. The mock jingles - for pimple cream, deodorant, baked beans - are pop at its grubbiest. The fictional singles, typified but not necessarily topped by the actual hit "I Can See for Miles," are pop soaring like the dream of youth it is - exalted, visionary, even, in their crafty way, psychedelic. All the rest is English eccentricity.

Sweet Wayfarers, Pete! Townshend does his best to emulate Tom Cruise in Risky Business, onstage with the Who at New York's Nassau Coliseum on March 10, 2007.