the history of rock'n'roll. Sneered by the Who's Roger Daltrey back in 1965, it expressed the anger of young people who felt their parents did not respect or understand their way of life.
More than 40 years later, the line comes from the lips of 90-year-old Alf Carretta, one of the 3.
5 million elderly people who live alone in Britain.
Carretta is the lead singer of the Zimmers, a 40-strong band with a combined age of more than 3000, who have been brought together by a documentary-maker, Tim Samuels, as part of a BBC people," Samuels said, "I always suspected we'd be in trouble in this country."
As he did his research - visiting the shabby aged-care homes, film loomed as depressing.
London flat she hadn't left for three years, he realised that music to give the elderly a voice, it might be more effective to set that voice to music and release a single. The Who's classic My Generation said it all.
in two weeks.
The band had interview requests from Brazil, Germany, Japan and Iceland. In about a fortnight members of the Zimmers will appear on US television, as guests with George Clooney on The Angeles?
"Well, my dear," her surprisingly youthful voice twinkled down the phone from her care home in Nottingham, "I haven't been on a plane since 1927 so it will certainly be an adventure.
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Warburton, who plays organ, sings in the chorus and bangs a percussive walking stick, has lived in 16 aged-care homes. She is stimulation.
secret camera, its easy to see why Warburton would keep moving.
Old people were falling, slumping and gently, hopelessly weeping: stripped of all dignity. Samuels compares the rights of television.
"But making this record has really brought me back to life," Carretta said.
"It's quite funny that I ended up singing - I was 30 years is being closed down."
Carretta, like Warburton, had previously never heard of the Who.
"I tend to prefer the light classics," he said.
"La Boheme and all that carry on. I am fairly liberal in my tastes, though - a bit of old Cliff [Richard] is all right. But I do really like this song.
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There are plans for a Zimmers album. "It would be great if we could get Liam Gallagher into the studio to sing with them," Samuels said. Will there be a tour?
"We'd need a bus with reclining seats and a lot of Werther's Originals," he added, laughing.
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