Reign O’er The Real Me
and seemingly perfected—the art of the rock opera with May 1969’s all-seeing , but the ever-provocative British quartet’s chief visionary Pete Townshend wasn’t done with his honing of the overarching story-arc concept just yet. October 1973’s magnum opus —the 81-minute, 17-song cycle chronicling angst-driven youth-culture clashes and a yearning to break free from a preordained societal rut—reinforced how guitarist/vocalist Townshend was a musical architect
