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How Pete Townshend’s drunken night with two Sex Pistols inspired The Who’s last classic song with Keith Moon: “I used to go to clubs and get insulted. Just stand there and endure these snotty little kids saying, ‘Boring old fart!’”

Townshend took punk seriously but refused to be cast off as an irrelevant rock dinosaur

MusicRadar · Aug 14

How Pete Townshend turned youthful disgust into The Who's biggest hit. "I didn't like being confronted with money and the class system and power"

Inspired by his wealthy neighbours and reinforced by a run-in with the Queen Mother, My Generation is a mod anthem turned rock legend

Louder · Aug 10

“We were going to form a group at the time of the Beck’s Bolero sessions”: Jeff Beck was going to be part of the original Led Zeppelin, according to Jimmy Page

In a momentous sliding doors moment in rock history, Page and Beck had plans to form a twin-guitar act that would have been supported by Keith Moon and John Entwistle

Guitar World · Jul 29

“These were both huge British bands with international followings so we’re expecting considerable interest”: How the “fingerprint” wood grain of this Warwick bass revealed a connection to not one but two British rock legends (and tripled its value)

Incredibly, this bass, co-designed with John Entwistle, changed hands in 2003 without anyone noticing its regal connection. Now wood grain analysis reveals it was owned by John Deacon

MusicRadar · Nov 27, 2025

“Thank goodness it wasn’t painted”: John Entwistle’s Warwick bass triples in value after analysis reveals links to another rock great

The prototype's natural finish and some sharp eyes have helped it to a huge bump in value

Guitar World · Nov 24, 2025

Remarkable discovery triples value of wood grain bass guitar linked to Queen

The grain-matching technique also revealed its appearance in Queen’s 1986 video for their top 20 hit, ‘Friends Will Be Friends’

The Independent UK · Nov 23, 2025

It’s a kind of magic: Wood grain analysis reveals bass guitar’s link to Queen

The 1986 Warwick Buzzard owned by The Who’s John Entwistle is now expected to fetch treble its original price estimate at auction next month.

Evening Standard · Nov 23, 2025

“Jeff Beck would pick up my fretless and play the craziest licks. I was in awe”: Pino Palladino’s adventures with The Who, John Mayer, Eric Clapton and his Music Man fretless bass

One of the most identifiable bass players on the planet on why he shifted back to fretted, embracing flatwounds even though they were unfashionable, and how he’s still topping the charts with the likes of Miley Cyrus, Beyoncé and Ed Sheeran

Guitar World · Nov 10, 2025

"He was like a blubbering baby. He was crying. He was devastated": The Who's Roger Daltrey on drugs, fights, death and the music that defined a generation

The Who: From pill-popping mod figureheads to Woodstock-generation rockers and beyond

Louder · Oct 2, 2025

“It’s weird when I look at the list. If you go folk or blues or jazz or rock, I’ve actually been there”: Danny Thompson covered more ground than even he thought possible in a career spanning seven decades

The revered double bassist worked with Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, John Martyn, Bert Jansch and countless others. On 2012 album Connected he assembled some of his proudest moments

Louder · Sep 25, 2025