Pete Townshend

Pete Townsend of the band The Who performs on stage during the 2009 Melbourne Grand Prix at Albert Park on March 29, 2009 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Robert Cianflone/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Pete Townsend (Getty Images) more pics » The Who rocker Pete Townshend is using his break from the band while singer Roger Daltrey embarks on a solo tour to work on a new musical, and he says Floss is similar in style to his previous rock operas Tommy and Quadrophenia , with a subject matter close to his own life. He explained on his blog: While Roger Daltrey exercises ... Read Full Story

Guitarist Pete Townshend from rock band The Who has written a musical called Floss, which will open in New York in 2011. The rock opera apparently derives the style from their earlier work Tommy and Quadrophenia. The 64-year-old has revealed that his new work deals with issues affecting a man of his age and it will express his anger in true rock fashion. “As a 19-year-old with My Generation, I wrote the most explicitly ageist song in rock. At 64, I now want to take on ageing and mortality, using the powerfully angry context of rock ”n” roll,” The Sun quoted him as saying. ... Read Full Story

Image Source Pete Townshend , guitarist for The Who and certainly one of the most awesome living Rock Stars ever in the universe of all time, turns 64 today. I’m lucky enough (meaning that I am old enough now) to have seen The Who live in their prime before the death of Keith Moon . This was way back in March of 1976, at the Anaheim Stadium in Orange County, California where I grew up. I’d say that show is probably in the top three or four concert experiences of my life, and I do remember it was VERY LOUD, despite being held at ... Read Full Story

On May 7th something quiet but quite remarkable happened. Pete Townshend (63), guitarist of the band the WHO, was scheduled to have his Sexual Offender status dropped from the British Violent and Sex Offender Register (ViSOR). A confirmation of the action is pending. Mr. Townshend was arrested in January 2003 as part of Operation Ore, the largest investigation into child pornography in the UK. He admitted using his credit card to access child abuse images but claimed they were for "research" for a book in 1999. (Emphasis added by the Guardian Newspaper - see link below). Mr. Townshend was one of 1,600 people arrested ... Read Full Story

It was 40 years ago this week that Pete Townshend, guitarist for British band The Who talked to a then-young heterosexual music fan named Jann Wenner for his new music magazine Rolling Stone . In the interview, he speaks (at length!) on other musicians, The Who themselves, his 'complex' story of Tommy that was currently in his head, and more. Fascinating and exhausting stuff. No 15-second snippets here, my friends. With aging glasses on, it's fun to read about how Townshend somewhat callously regarded his band's output then, but today he and longtime Who partner Roger Daltrey speak about it in such rarified airs. ... Read Full Story