He is of the silent generation as most of the famous young people of the 60s were, including just about all the music.
I don’t buy that. In ‘65, Pete Townsend was too young to have been “messaging” people in who were born in the ‘30s, and with Keith Moon (b1947) as his drummer, The Who was not necessarily talking to me, but that doesn’t mean that the “silent” generation didn’t pick up on it.