I-95 Drive Home Mystery Artist [VIDEO]

Tonight mystery artists have a hit song they say was inspired by the Queen mother and a hearse. Any guesses who our Munster-man might be??

It was back in 1964 that a young Pete Townsend guitarist for The Who’s and principal songwriter, purchased an ancient Packard V12 hearse for £90 and parked it proudly outside his flat in Belgravia. And he told the Daily Mail how it all turned into the song My Generation.

Fifty years later this is how Townshend tells the story:

‘I wasn’t made to feel particularly welcome in that area,’ he recalls.  ‘I thought they were snobs. I was an angry, cocky young man but I felt pushed around. 'The funny thing back then was that you didn’t have to pay for parking, so I plonked it outside my place thinking it looked rather cool’  He goes on to tell: "within days, the vehicle had vanished. A mysterious telephone call informed Townshend that the car had been impounded upon the request of the Queen Mother, as she had to pass it every day and it brought to mind her late husband King George VI’s funeral 12 years earlier.  Recovery according to The Mail,  would cost him extortionate £250, but the caller offered to pay this fee in exchange for ownership of the majestic motor. Townshend resentfully agreed to the dubious deal then, suitably incensed, finished writing My Generation (‘which I’d had brewing’) and dedicated it to the Queen Mum.

Townsend completed the tale by saying: ‘I saw her as a boring old lady who had nothing better to do than go around taking away teenagers’ cars,’ he says now. ‘But I got a rather decent song out of it, so, cheers, Ma’am.’

and here you go...