Question: What was the highest ranking in the United States for a single written by an English multi-instrumentalist?

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Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend (born 19 May 1945) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the lead guitarist, backing vocalist, and main songwriter for the rock band the Who.  His career with the Who spans over 50 years, during which time the band grew to be considered one of the most influential bands of the 20th century. Carlos M. Gomez is the current Chief of Department of the New York Police Department.  A native of Cuba who emigrated to the United States as a young boy with his father, Gomez grew up in the New York City borough of Queens.  He was designated Chief of Department of the NYPD on September 16, 2016.  The Chief of Department is the highest uniformed position, and Gomez is the 39th person to hold this post becoming the highest ranking Hispanic officer in the department. Brigadier General Abel Davis was an officer in the Illinois National Guard.  He was regarded as "the second highest ranking Jewish officer in the Illinois National Guard, and one of the highest ranking Jewish officers in the United States Army."  He served in the 66th infantry. "Man in the Rain" is a pop song written and performed by English multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield.  It was included on the album "Tubular Bells III" and released as a single on 5 October 1998 by Warner Music.  The vocals were performed by Irish folk singer Cara Dillon. "Moonlight Shadow" is a song written and performed by English multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield, released as a single in May 1983 by Virgin Records, and included in the album "Crises" of the same year.  The vocals were performed by Scottish vocalist Maggie Reilly, who had collaborated with Mike Oldfield since 1980.  It is Oldfield's most successful single, reaching number one on a number of charts around Europe. "Magic Bus" is a song written by Pete Townshend during the time that "My Generation" was being recorded in 1965.  However, it was not recorded by The Who until 1968 and released in the UK on 18 September 1968.  It has become one of the band's most popular songs and has been a concert staple, although when released, the record only reached number 26 in the United Kingdom and number 25 in the United States. José Sisto, also called José Sisto Rodrigo and José Sixto, was twice Governor of Guam, first after overthrowing Francisco Martínez Portusach, and again after being legitimately placed in the position by the United States government.  He served as Spanish administrator of the Public Treasury in Guam until the United States captured the island during the Spanish–American War.  When Martínez was named Commissioner, Sisto quickly staged a coup d'état and claimed the position as the highest ranking Spanish official on the island.  He began arming native guards and commandeering ammunition, but was briefly overthrown by Venancio Roberto and other pro-American elements on December 31, 1898, but was officially put into power by officers of the United States Navy only two days later after they decided he held a legitimate claim to the position.  His second term was brief, and he officially relinquished control on February 1, 1899 after learning that the United States had obtained Guam in the Treaty of Paris.  After giving up his post, he was found to have misappropriated public funds, arrested, and exiled to Manila. William Short (1759–1849) was Thomas Jefferson's private secretary when Jefferson was a peace commissioner and then the United States Minister to France in Paris, from 1784 to 1789.  Jefferson, later the third President of the United States, was a lifelong mentor and friend.  In a 1789 letter, Jefferson referred to Short as his "adoptive son."  Short was an early member and president (1778–1781) of Phi Beta Kappa at the College of William & Mary, was elected to Virginia's Executive Council in 1783–1784, served as America's chargé d'affaires in France during the French Revolution from 1789–1792, was then appointed as America's Minister to the Netherlands and as a treaty commissioner to Spain.  (The United States did not have ambassadors until 1893.  Until that time, the highest ranking diplomats were known as ministers.)  Although his diplomatic career was not as celebrated or long as Short may have wished, and his love affair with a French noblewoman ended with her marrying another man, Short was a successful businessman and an opponent of slavery who died very wealthy in America. John F. Weston (November 13, 1845 – August 3, 1917) was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions during a raid on Confederate shipping.  He was a brigadier general of United States Volunteers in the Spanish–American War.  Weston retired from the U.S. regular army in 1909 as a major general.  Having been assistant commissary general of subsistence and commissary general of subsistence from 1897 to 1905, including commissary general for the American forces in Cuba during the Spanish–American War, Weston finished his career as the highest ranking U.S. Army officer in the Philippines and, in the last year of his service, as commander of the Department of California. Valedictorian is an academic title of success used in the United States, Canada, Central America, and the Philippines for the student who delivers the closing or farewell statement at a graduation ceremony (called a valediction).  The chosen valedictorian is often the student with the highest ranking (highest Grade Point Average, or GPA for short) among their graduating class.  The term is an Anglicised derivation of the Latin "vale dicere" ("to say farewell"), historically rooted in the valedictorian's traditional role as the final speaker at the graduation ceremony before the students receive their diplomas.  So the valedictory address generally is considered a final farewell to classmates, before they disperse to pursue their individual paths after graduating.

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"Magic Bus" is a song written by Pete Townshend during the time that "My Generation" was being recorded in 1965.  It has become one of the band's most popular songs and has been a concert staple, although when released, the record only reached number 26 in the United Kingdom and number 25 in the United States. Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend (born 19 May 1945) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the lead guitarist, backing vocalist, and main songwriter for the rock band the Who.