During the British Invasion, The Rolling Stones and the Beatles got most of the attention but there were lots of other bands that turned up in the states: The Animals, the Hollies, the Kinks, Dusty Springfield, the Zombies and the Yardbirds.
None were quite like The Who.
Paul McCartney has called The Rolling Stones a blues covers band and his own Beatles had influences from an amazing number of sources. The Who just set out to play great rock and roll and did it as well as anyone
Their early songs like My Generation, Magic Bus, The Kids Are Alright and Can’t Explain were sort of the natural development of what Buddy Holly was doing in the late ‘50s: a very small, tight group just playing great, great music.