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"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 saga 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

Louder

"If it had failed, we would have slid into ignominy": How Tommy was the last throw of the dice for The Who

The Who's Pete Townshend once pondered what would’ve happened if his magnum opus, Tommy, had failed

Louder

Neil Giraldo: “As much as I loved Jeff Beck, I never wanted to be him. I wanted to be Pete Townshend. I wanted to be the writer. I wanted to play chords”

Pat Benatar’s right-hand man (and husband) on how he wound up with Jeff Beck’s pickups, his singable guitar solos – and why being listed among the unsung greats ain’t so bad after all

Guitar World

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Creatives shine new light on ‘The Who’s Tommy’ in Goodman Theatre world premiere

Pete Townshend and Des McAnuff have reimagined their classic stage musical for a new age.

Chicago Sun-Times

The Who’s Pete Townshend tells the story behind ‘Tommy,’ now reinvented at Chicago's Goodman Theatre

CHICAGO — In the beginning, there was no pinball wizard.

Chicago Tribune

"Sooner or later, I'm going to offend you": At 79, The Who's Roger Daltrey is still pulling no punches

Roger Daltrey talks to Louder about making "music to fight to", The Who's future, opera, orchestras, and liking "a growl"

Louder

Guitar owned by The Who’s Pete Townshend could sell for £20,000

Townshend donated the 1989 Takamine FP-360SC electro-acoustic guitar to a friend known only as Robert in the 1990s after the theft of his instrument.

The Independent UK

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Nicolas Cage claims he remembers being in his mother’s womb

The actor said he had ‘a feeling like I could see faces in the dark or something’ when drawn on what his earliest memory was

Evening Standard

Nicolas Cage says he remembers being in his mother’s womb

‘I know this sounds really far out,’ actor said

The Independent UK

10 revolutionary instrumentals that inspired the guitarists who invented rock music

Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Pete Townshend and the rest: They all owe so much to the instrumental artists of the 50s and 60s

Louder

10 great heavy metal songs that came before Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath may have been the official ground zero for metal, but these heavy-as-lead bangers all predate that classic first album

Metal Hammer

Kiss's Tommy Thayer names 11 guitarists who shaped his sound

The Spaceman offers his pick of the greatest riff-masters, salutes the player who invented the power chord and reveals the guitarist his bandmates compare him to (and it's not Ace Frehley)

Guitar World

From all-star extreme metal to riffs built entirely around ring modulators: here are this week's essential guitar tracks

Round out March in style with a playlist of killer six-string showings from Nervosa, Empire State Bastard, Pete Townshend, Jimmy Page, Grentperez, CLT DRP, Enforcer, Charlie Cunningham and more

Guitar World

Alice Cooper's story about Kiss/Pink Floyd producer Bob Ezrin projectile vomiting all over The Who is one for the ages

A 1970s drinking contest between Alice Cooper's band and The Who was always going to end in tears... and vomit

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Pete Townshend releases Can’t Outrun The Truth, first solo single in 29 years

Can’t Outrun The Truth is accompanied by Pete Townshend's first solo video in nearly four decades

Guitar World

Andy Fraser: “It was me trying to impersonate Pete Townshend, who was, to me, the all-time greatest chord king”

How Free’s worst ever gig inspired one of the most iconic bass solos in rock

Chronicle Live

Six decades of The Who in Newcastle - from 1960s Mod upstarts to rock royalty

ChronicleLive reported this week how legendary rockers The Who will this summer once again be performing in our region

Liverpool Echo

The Who announce UK tour with dates in St Helens, Hull, London, Edinburgh and Brighton

The band will perform at the Totally Wicked Stadium

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Edinburgh Live

The Who to perform at Edinburgh Castle more than 40 years on from last show in capital

Rock and roll legends, The Who, will be taking over Edinburgh Castle for two nights in the summer of 2023 - as the band visit the capital to perform for the first time in more than 40 years.

Chronicle Live

The Who announces Durham date on first UK tour in six years

New tour with orchestra will be 'very special for me' says Roger Daltrey as he, Pete Townshend and band prepare to rock cities they haven't played in for decades

The National (Scotland)

The Who announce first Scottish gig date in FOUR decades alongside full orchestra

Vocalist Roger Daltrey said including a Scottish date made the tour "very special" to him

Louder

"He was selling guitars to raise ready cash to buy dope": The real story of the show that brought Eric Clapton back from the brink

By mid-1971 Eric Clapton was a recluse with a heroin habit, until friends including Pete Townshend and George Harrison intervened to save his life

Manchester Evening News

Rare throwback photos of rock café that's welcomed One Direction, Oasis and the Beckhams

Hard Rock Cafe in Manchester's Printworks first opened its doors more than two decades ago

Daily Mirror

How George Harrison and Eric Clapton made the Hard Rock Cafe a museum of rock'n'roll

The Hard Rock Cafe in London is home to rock'n'roll treasures, and has hosted some truly remarkable objects over the years, from Sid Vicious' jeans, to Jimi Hendrix's guitar

The Guardian - UK

‘I wore a flaming helmet to sing it’ … how The Crazy World of Arthur Brown made Fire

‘The flames could be 4ft high. At one gig, my coat caught fire and I was running around with a burning arm’

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