A video posted to Instagram by Leather Saints Archive from Smith's Nov. 22 concert at the Beacon in NYC showed the legendary musician, 78, singing and playing guitar on the 1965 classic. According to the caption, it was Smith's first time performing the song on her current tour, and she was backed by a band which included guest guitarist Charlie Sexton from Bob Dylan's band.
View this post on Instagram"Thank you for sharing this. May or may not have tears in my eyes," a second commenter admitted, with another declaring, "She is ageless."
Of course, as longtime fans know, Smith has been covering "My Generation" for years. In fact, her 1976 single "Gloria" featured a live version of the tune recorded in Cleveland as a B-side.
Pete Townshend said playing 'My Generation' became a 'burden' for The Who
"I hate playing it,” Pete Townshend admitted on a March 2025 episode of the Switched on Pop podcast.
"When we first went to New York in 1967, there were kids who were being called up for Vietnam, but the Vietnam issue was over and we were still doing ‘My Generation’ on the stage and I was probably smashing guitars and [drummer] Keith Moon was still smashing his drums up and we were still doing that in ’68," Townshend recalled.
“When you look at early interviews with The Beatles, what they did is every time they were asked a serious question, they made a joke,” he pointed out. “I tried to answer questions seriously, but I knew there were subjects I had to stay away from. I would have defended myself really quite valiantly on the stuttering. It wasn’t meant to be a piss-take about people stuttering. It was meant to be that I grew up in this group of boys who took so much amphetamines that they couldn’t speak.”
Related: The Who's Roger Daltrey Will Never Play This Song Again for Seriously Spooky Reason
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