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- In early 1977, Keith Moon took Pete Townshend to see Generation X at the Marquee Club.
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He is the co-founder, guitarist, second lead vocalist and principal songwriter of the Who, one of the most influential rock bands of the 1960s and 1970s. [2][3] His aggressive playing style and poetic songwriting techniques, with the Who and in other projects, have earned him critical acclaim.
23 hours ago · Pete Townshend, despite his monumental achievements in shifting rock and roll with records like Tommy, recognised that something was changing when he first heard Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles and Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys. These albums marked a seismic shift in the musical landscape, influencing not only fans but even fellow innovators like Townshend himself.
Last year, the pair revived “Tommy” in a reimagined version at the Goodman Theater in Chicago, where it drew candescent reviews, and it’s scheduled to open Thursday at the Nederlander Theater in Manhattan, with Ali Louis Bourzgui making his Broadway debut in the title role.
Nov 25, 2019 · Of all the key figures from rock music’s glory days, the Who’s Pete Townshend is the one to have had most deeply interrogated — on albums like “Quadrophenia” and in his own writing over the...
Nov 18, 2019 · Pete Townshend: Not only is he the major creative force behind The Who, but he's also released several of his own solo records, prompted the first-known use of the term "rock opera" (for 1969's...
In part one of the 1968 interview, Townshend spoke about his guitar smashing techniques, why he does it, the mod revolution in England and narrated the story of his next record, which would...
