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The Who’s Pete Townshend: How Keir Starmer confronted me about ‘child pornography’ on my computer

The guitarist talks to Kevin E G Perry about his 2003 arrest, his Seventies eco-meltdown rock opera, and how he feels about Rishi Sunak’s Tories

The Independent UK

"Who's Next" massive, majestic box set

This hefty release includes 89 previously unreleased songs — and a "Lifehouse" graphic novel

Salon

Music Review: 'Who's Next/Life House' is a dive into The Who's masterpiece that mostly slipped away

The Who's massive box set, “Who’s Next/Life House,” goes deep down the archival rabbit hole to shed light on the development of one of The Who’s greatest records — and one grandiose idea that mostly slipped away

The Independent UK

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“I remember Nick Mason saying, ‘Pink Floyd is stopping… we’ll leave him to do the big outdoor concerts now!’” But Jean-Michele Jarre argues: “I want to contribute to tomorrow, not yesterday”

Pioneer’s life and times include predicting that electronic music would change the world by thinking “not in terms of notes, but as music that you do with sounds and noise”

Louder

“The kids just went ape”: This menacing riff shaped the playing of Jimmy Page, Pete Townshend and Jeff Beck – and had a guitar tone so aggressive it was banned from the radio

Finally set to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame later this year, Link Wray was a guitar pioneer who – when he released Rumble in 1958 – made the instrument sound more dangerous than anyone before him

Guitar World

“I would definitely advise trying classical guitar – it’s really easy to translate classical chord shapes to pop music”: How NY duo The Lemon Twigs are leading the ’70s glam rock guitar revival

Power-pop enthusiast Brian D’Addario on his love of 12-strings, surprising guitar heroes, and how fingerstyle on a nylon-string can be the foundation for all songwriting on guitar

Guitar World

“The world needs it back”: Sunn Amplifiers – the brand used by Jimi Hendrix, Pete Townshend and countless doom metal heroes – has been revived with the help of Fender

All-new models and “historic reproductions of the classic Sunn designs” are expected to arrive later this year

Guitar World

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“Joe Walsh branched out – a genuine progressive instinct at work”: when future Eagles icon went prog with The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get

1973 album carries flavours of Genesis and the Beatles, helped on its way by a gift from Pete Townshend

Louder

The Who review – rock operas get an orchestral uplift in a show stuffed with classics

Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend are as playful as ever in a crowd-pleasing set featuring strings, brass and, in the audience, thousands of air guitars

The Guardian - UK

The wrinkly musicians still rocking the world - but when will they be dethroned?

A host of big names are proving pop music isn't the domain of rebellious youngsters - but while one music lover is in his element, a younger fan thinks it's time to get off the stage

Daily Mirror

"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

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.

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Chicago Tribune

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.

Louder

"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"

The Independent UK

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.

Evening Standard

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

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The Independent UK

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

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

Louder

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

Metal Hammer

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

Guitar World

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

Louder

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

Louder

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

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