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The climactic complete to The Who’s best album is rock’s – and Pete Townshend’s – greatest declaration of independence: an epic storm of question, refusal, hypno-minimalist synthesizer and rolling-thunder energy chords capped by A really superhuman scream. “The song was meant,” the guitarist-composer mentioned in 2006, “to let polit