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Pete Townshend has commented on the Who’s future, suggesting the legendary act may get back on the road for an extensive farewell tour. “It feels to me like there’s one thing the Who can do,” the rocker explained to The New York Times, “and that’s a final tour where we play every territory in the world and then crawl off to die.” The ever-candid guitarist admitted a final trek for the Who would be less about legacy and more about finances. READ MORE: All 245 Who Songs Ranked Worst to Best “I don’t get much of a buzz from performing with the Who,” Townshend confessed. “If I’m really honest, I’v...
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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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Mick Fleetwood says the tribute concert he held to celebrate his Fleetwood Mac co-founder Peter Green has become very "poignant" to him. The 73-year-old musician organised an all-star show – featuring appearances from the likes of Pete Townshend and Noel Gallagher - to celebrate Peter's career in March 2020 in one of the last shows before coronavirus restrictions were enforced in the UK, while Green's passing last July gave the show added emotional significance. Mick told The Times newspaper: "It became extremely poignant for me. "We lost Peter. We lost our lives as we knew them. The world of ...
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