It’s been 40 years since Pete Townshend wrote “My Generation,” unwittingly giving critics barbs with which to mock him decades later. “Hey, didn’t you hope you’d die before

you got old? So

why don’t you f-fade away?”

The Who haven’t. Instead, they have kept coming back, long after promising to leave for good — even though by now half the foursome is in the grave.

So when Townshend and Roger Daltrey took the stage of the sold-out Wachovia Center Tuesday night for the first show of their U.S. tour,

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JONATHAN WILSON / Inquirer Staff Photographe The Who’s Pete Townshend strikes a familiar pose at the Wachovia Center.