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Pete Townshend is 'working on getting well' so he can play with The Who 'in the future'

Pete Townshend has withdrawn from Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival due to ongoing health issues, but says he’s focused on recovering so he can perform with The Who again in the future.

BANG Premier · Sep 2

Pete Townshend pulls out of Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival due to injury: “One day I hope I can accept Eric's invitation to appear with him”

Townshend has also quietly confirmed a reunion with The Who is in the works

Guitar World · Sep 1

"Looking forward to tearing it up with The Who again." Zak Starkey and Roger Daltrey confirm drummer's return

Zak Starkey is The Who's drummer again as band kick off rehearsals

Louder · Aug 29

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Roger Daltrey: 'social media is destroying civilization'

Roger Daltrey says social media is “destroying civilisation” and insisted “everybody's screaming” at each other online but no one is listening.

BANG Premier · Aug 29

How The Who overcame internal strife and a drummer behaving like a 'Saudi prince' to make their most poignant album. "Roger punched me once, and I’m sure I asked for it"

By 1973 The Who were bored and angry – and Pete Townshend knew he had one last chance to hold the band together and unify them in the eyes of their fans

Louder · Aug 20

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

'A prisoner can oppose incarceration while remaining confined': The paradox of Gen Z, capitalism, and consumption

Every generation flirts with anti-capitalism when it’s young, but has something broken down along the way?

Fortune · Aug 10

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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

"John Belushi always used to try to get off with my ex-wife. I'd say: 'John, I can hear you, you fat git'": Ronnie Wood's wild tales of Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards, Bob Dylan and Axl Rose

Living with Hendrix? Jamming with Dylan? Giving Axl relationship advice? Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood has done it all

Louder · Jul 31

“He started to saw through his strings and we all stood up and cheered! It made a fantastic noise… And he just carried on sawing”: Pete Townshend on how Stevie Wonder's producer inspired him to smash guitars

We revisit the pivotal moment when the young Who guitarist watched Malcolm Cecil take a saw to a bass guitar

MusicRadar · Jul 21

“The first time I walked in, I cried as I was so overwhelmed”: We speak to The Anchoress about the creation of her new album and harnessing Pete Townshend’s synth collection

Catherine Anne Davies, aka The Anchoress, shares how she immersed herself in Pete Townshend’s vintage synth collection to make her latest album, As We Once Were

MusicRadar · Jul 21

"Let My Love Open The Door is one of the most perfect pop songs ever written." Pete Townshend finds stable ground away from The Who on Empty Glass

Empty Glass was Pete Townshend’s response to the death of Keith Moon and the arrival of punk

Louder · Jul 20

"I'm not too struck on Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton, I never saw what was in Clapton at all". In 1975, Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore was asked for his thoughts on his peers: he did not hold back

Blackmore on Hendrix, Beck, Page, Clapton, Townshend and more

Louder · Jun 30

The Who's Pete Townshend believes that Keith Moon once bought dinner in Seattle for a nine-year-old Kurt Cobain

Amazing if true, but...

Louder · Jun 29

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Louder · Jun 21

"Everybody was leaning over the banisters to listen to this guy sitting in the corner of the club playing. They were enthralled.” This is what happened when Jimi Hendrix landed in London for the first time

When Hendrix arrived in the UK in 1966, the rock world tilted on its axis and he shot from unknown to superstar and changed everything

Louder · Jun 16

"We did seven encores. We ran out of material and were forced to play Jimi Hendrix tunes. Imagine that, opening for Cream and finishing with Hendrix tunes?" The story of the legendary James Gang

With a classic funk-rock sound, the rise of rock'n'roll cowboys the James Gang looked unstoppable, inspired by a real kick-ass guitarist who would both make and break the band

The National (Scotland) · Jun 13

Pat Kane: Have we hit the early stages of humanmaxxing?

LIVING well, dying well. Both are on my mind this week. I just discovered humanmaxxing as a phenomenon – the latest term for the ancient human…

Guitar World · Jun 5

“I found him at the studio. I said, ‘You never called me back. I got nothing going on my career, you left me in the lurch’”: Pete Townshend offered Peter Frampton his place in the Who – then blanked him

Frampton was at an all-time low and Townshend wanted to quit touring, but it didn't quite work out

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Louder · Jun 1

"I walked through it all and felt like spitting on the lot of them". How Pete Townshend's disgust with the hippies inspired The Who's most epic song

Warning: Contain's rock's most epic scream

Metal Hammer · May 30

"We were the first heavy metal band." Roger Daltrey says The Who pioneered the genre of music we all love so much

The Who frontman says they pushed the boundaries of volume and onstage antics before anyone else

Louder · May 29

"We've been a rock band, we've been pop stars, and then we became dinosaurs. But if you can live through the dinosaur period you become a legend..." The epic story of Nazareth

Axl is a huge fan. Robert Plant owes them money. They were almost on that plane with Skynyrd. Nazareth: the full crazy story

MusicRadar · May 27

Gibson brings back the legendary pickup used by Angus Young, BB King, Pete Townshend and more – and it just might suit your guitar down to a T

The signs were there that the T-Top was making a return when Michael Schenker's Murphy Lab Flying V shipped with a pair. Now it's officially available from the Gibson Pickup Shop

MusicRadar · May 15

Pete Townshend sells out: Primary Wave group acquires rights to Who guitarist’s music, image, likeness and name

“I know we will have a lot of fun working together” says guitarist

Louder · May 15

"I think people who were fans of grunge like Soundgarden would be floored by Swervedriver." Sugar and Hüsker Dü man Bob Mould picks the soundtrack of his life

Hüsker Dü, Sugar and solo songwriter and musician Bob Mould picks his records,artists and gigs of lasting significance

Guitar World · May 5

“The guitar players barely holding onto control as they go into the corners at top speed are my favorite players”: How the Dirty Nil’s sound runs on vintage Marshall power and a healthy serving of the Rat pedal

Weaned on the Stooges, Luke Bentham developed a taste early on for any player who could “peel paint” from the walls. Here, he walks through the high-volume approach behind the Dirty Nil's latest, which originally provoked a cease-and-desist from the Holy See...

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