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Pete Townshend of The Who performs during Desert Trip at The Empire Polo Club on October 16, 2016 in Indio, California.

“You might be wrong.” Roger Daltrey said the record business Is “a joke.” Now Pete Townshend is talking about making another Who album

By Elizabeth Swann published

The guitarist says the band may still record again — and he has up to 450 unfinished pieces of music to start with

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Pete Townshend of The Who performs during Desert Trip at the Empire Polo Field on October 16, 2016 in Indio, California.

“Our parents f***ed up!” Pete Townshend says kids today are living a modern version of his rock opera ‘Tommy’

By Phil Weller published

The guitarist believes the themes he wrote from his postwar childhood now echo in a generation shaped by screens

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Jimmy Page performs in California in 1977 RIGHT:: Songwriter and guitarist Pete Townshend performs with The Who at the Omni Coliseum on November 27, 1973 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Pete Townshend on rivals, regrets — and what he really thought of Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin

By Phil Weller published

Townshend’s famously cutting remarks were in line with his view of heavy metal acts in general

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Pete TOWNSHEND and The Who, Pete Townshend, posed, playing Martin acoustic guitar

Pete Townshend on the music he despises, even though he influenced it with one vital Who album  

By Christopher Scapelliti published

The guitarist wondered “why these guys look like that, and why it is that they think they look so cool?”

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Pete Townshend of The Who performs live on stage at the Capitol Theater, Passaic, New Jersey on 10th September 1979. Townshend plays his Wine Red Gibson Les Paul Deluxe guitar number 1.

Pete Townshend on the Who's real lead guitar player

By Christopher Scapelliti published

Read one of Guitar Player's top stories of 2025

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3CRW8ED Palm Desert, Ca. 1st Oct, 2025. Pete Townshend pictured as The Who perform their final concert at the Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert, California on October 1, 2025.

Pete Townshend may borrow an idea from the Beatles as he looks for help polishing rough gems from the Who’s archive

By Phil Weller published

The guitarist has mentioned the creative possibilities of using AI before, but never as seriously as he does now

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Pete TOWNSHEND, of The Who, posed, in Locust Valley, Long Island, 1971

Pete Townshend thought the Who would last two weeks. This was the moment that changed his mind

By Phil Weller published

In a new interview, the guitarist reveals his thoughts about the group's origins and the revelation that showed him the possibilities that lay ahead

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Pete Townshend of The Who pictured playing an acoustic guitar with his father Cliff Townshend (1916-1986), saxophone player with the Squadronaires, and mother Betty at home in London on 30th March 1966.

Pete Townshend on the first guitar he ever broke — at age 13 — and John Entwistle's hilarious response

By Phil Weller published

The future Who bassist was present to witness the first of many guitar destructions in Townshend's life

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Roger Daltrey (L) and Pete Townshend of British rock band The Who perform on stage during their "The Song Is Over Farewell Tour" at Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert, California on October 1, 2025.

Roger Daltrey on the day he knocked out Pete Townshend

By Elizabeth Swann published

With the group's final U.S. tour behind them, the singer explains what kept them going through the worst of times

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THE WHO UK rock group with Pete Townshend on Ready, Steady, Go, in 1966.

“It sounds like 50 Marshall stacks!” Pete Townshend’s guitar secrets revealed by the Who’s substitute guitarist

By Joe Matera last updated

Steve Bolton said the Who guitarist taught him the power of using just one guitar for some of his most bombastic tracks

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