Latest about Pete Townshend
“You might be wrong.” Roger Daltrey said the record business Is “a joke.” Now Pete Townshend is talking about making another Who album
The guitarist says the band may still record again — and he has up to 450 unfinished pieces of music to start with
“Our parents f***ed up!” Pete Townshend says kids today are living a modern version of his rock opera ‘Tommy’
The guitarist believes the themes he wrote from his postwar childhood now echo in a generation shaped by screens
Pete Townshend on rivals, regrets — and what he really thought of Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin
Townshend’s famously cutting remarks were in line with his view of heavy metal acts in general
Guitar legend Link Wray on the hit that introduced distortion to rock and roll, inspired Jimmy Page to play guitar — and caused public outrage
Behind the 1958 guitar instrumental that changed rock and roll’s sonic landscape forever
Pete Townshend on the music he despises, even though he influenced it with one vital Who album
The guitarist wondered “why these guys look like that, and why it is that they think they look so cool?”
How Eric Clapton survived rock guitar‘s most transformative era and found his way to the blues
Like Jeff Beck and Pete Townshend, Clapton was thrown when Jimi Hendrix arrived on the rock scene
Rock royalty's favorite sideman recalls his days with Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Pete Townshend, Roger Waters and Bill Wyman
From Hendrix‘s earliest U.K. gigs to Clapton‘s Crossroads, Andy Fairweather Low has seen and played with the best of them
Pete Townshend on the Who's real lead guitar player
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