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Pete Townshend has announced the premiere of Quadrophenia: A Mod Ballet, based on the Who’s classic 1973 album. The production will open in the U.K. in May 2025, following years of development after the guitarist’s wife, Rachel Fuller, created an orchestral version of the music, which was recorded in 2016. The Sadler’s Wells theater company said in a statement: “Quadrophenia defined a generation and in 1979 inspired the cult classic feature film of the same name. Now it’s back – this time as an explosive dance production… with a cast of exceptional dancers, introducing new audiences to trouble...
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Pete Townshend is feeling more like a substitute musician in the Who these days. “It’s a group of musicians that Roger [Daltrey] has chosen,” the guitarist told Mojoin May [via rockcelebrities.net]. “I have not chosen any of the musicians I tour with – not even [drummer] Zak [Starkey]. When Roger brings me onstage I am filling the shoes of a guy called Frank Simes, who Roger tours with solo, and who is a guitar player and musical director.” But, he clarified, that doesn’t mean he’s unwilling to participate. READ MORE: Top 30 Teenage Songs: Wistfulness, Angst and Rebellion “I am happy to do it,...
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Pete Townshend is packaging nine rare solo shows into a massive 14-disc set simply titled Live in Concert 1985-2001. Included are several signature performances: There are entire renditions of Lifehouse and Psychoderelict, as well as a pair of concerts at London’s Deep End featuring special guest David Gilmour from Pink Floyd. Due on July 26, Live in Concert 1985-2001 is available now for preorder. The album cover image and complete track listing are below. READ MORE: Ranking Every Song by the Who These rare recordings were initially only available through Townshend’s website, and all of them ...
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Revisiting one of his old quotes and expanding on it in a social media post, Queen‘s Brian May has credited one icon in particular having “basically invented” rock guitar playing. May reshared a post that features a photo of him and The Who‘s Pete Townshend with their arms draped over one another’s shoulder. Beneath the image is a pre-existing quote from May that expresses how influential The Who, and Townshend specifically, were on Queen’s own goals and songwriting ambitions. He then added some new thoughts, brilliantly summarizing what made Townshend so great. What Brian May Previously Said“...
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Pete Townshend "really wanted" The Who's gay manager to be "sexually attracted" to him. The 78-year-old rocker - who has three children with ex-wife Karen Astley and is now married to Rachel Fuller - had no sexual interest in Kit Lambert and had never been attracted to a man, but he longed to have the executive look at him in a different way during the making of the group's ill-fated "lost" rock opera 'Life House'. He told the Financial Times newspaper: “I loved Kit. I wasn’t homosexual, I didn’t have any homoerotic feelings and I wasn’t sexually attracted to him, but I really wanted him to be...
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Pete Townshend believes taking heroin helped him do "dangerous, radical" things. The 78-year-old rocker - who has three children with ex-wife Karen Astley and is now married to Rachel Fuller - has opened up about the struggles in his relationship with The Who's manager Kit Lambert when he was writing his infamous 'lost' rock opera 'Life House' in 1970 and insisted he doesn't blame his mentor's drug addiction for the rift. He told The Times newspaper: “I’ve used heroin myself and it doesn’t disable you. “It mostly means you don’t enjoy food or sex, but also that you don’t give a f*** and that c...
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Pete Townshend says The Who are on the verge of retiring. The veteran rocker - who has been playing with the band for almost 60 years - has admitted both he and bandmate Roger Daltrey have found touring has been getting much harder as they get older and it takes much longer for them to adjust to life at home after they get back from the road - and he says it might be time for them to play a farewell tour like Sir Elton John. Pete, 77, told Record Collector magazine: "I suppose Roger and l, at some point, will look ahead and try to work out whether or not we want to do an Elton John and end it ...
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Roger Daltrey has claimed he's been "shrinking" ever since he took viral medication for meningitis. The Who frontman, 78, who came down with the severe bacterial infection in 2017, and was so poorly he thought he might die, believes the drugs he was prescribed to fend off the illness have made him shorter. As he and bandmate Pete Townshend, 76, prepare to play their first concert in two years, an acoustic set for Teenage Cancer Trust at London's The Royal Albert Hall on March 25, the charity's patron admits their two-hour sets are becoming increasingly harder as they approach their 80s. The 'P...
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Roger Daltrey has warned against the dangers of listening to “loud” music. The Who frontman has urged younger people to lower the volume because it’s unnecessary and admitted he and his bandmate, Pete Townshend, are paying the price now for not following the advice decades ago. He said: “Young people should stop listening to such loud music. They don’t need to. If your ears are ringing, you’ll pay. “Pete and I both have to wear hearing aids and it’s no fun taking them out; without them, life’s a mumble.” While he doesn’t want people to listen to loud music, Roger does wish they would sing more...
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Roger Daltrey has blasted the "miserable world" being created by the "woke generation". The Who frontman thinks the political climate has grown increasingly "absurd" and called for a shift away from online culture back to traditional print media as he warned young people are on a "route to nowhere". Joining bandmate Pete Townshend on Zane Lowe's Apple Music 1 show, he said: "It's just getting harder to disseminate the truth. It's almost like, now we should turn the whole thing off. Go back to newsprint, go back to word of mouth and start to read books again. "I don't know, we might get somewhe...
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