Reuters - Feb 7, 2010
The Who took the stage for the Super Bowl halftime show in Miami on Sunday, and delivered a solid if expected medley of classic rock hits. Singer Roger Daltrey and guitarist Pete Townshend, the two surviving...
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Pete Townshend is used to playing in front of stadiums filled with rabid fans who know every note of The Who s songs. He didn t get that at the band s Super Bowl halftime performance, but he s OK with...
More »AP - Feb 4, 2010
The Who gave an energetic, acoustic preview of Sunday s Super Bowl halftime show, but things turned serious when Pete Townshend defended himself against critics who say he should not be performing. The...
More »AP - Aug 26, 2009
Pete Townshend once wrote I hope I die before I get old. Now the 64-year-old guitarist and songwriter for British rock band The Who says he is at work on a new stage musical about the aging process....
More »AP - Aug 25, 2009
Pete Townshend once wrote I hope I die before I get old. Now the 64-year-old guitarist and songwriter for British rock band The Who says he is working on a new musical about aging. Townshend says Floss...
More »E! Online - Dec 10, 2007
It's been a long time since they've rocked and rolled, but the surviving members of Led Zeppelin proved they still have what it takes. Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and the late...
More »Reuters - Jul 13, 2007
More than 30 years after his seminal Tommy and Quadrophenia, The Who's Pete Townshend has written a new rock opera that will be given a test run at a theater festival in New York this weekend....
More »Reuters - Jul 13, 2007
More than 30 years after his seminal Tommy and Quadrophenia, The Who's Pete Townshend has written a new rock opera that will be given a test run at a theater festival in New York this weekend....
More »AP - Apr 6, 2007
As South By Southwest s annual gathering of the indie universe kicked into full swing, rock s biggest mainstream magazine ran an online piece painting it as a festival struggling for authenticity. If...
More »E! Online - Mar 23, 2007
The Who are rocking again. With frontman Roger Daltrey fully recovered from a nasty bout of bronchitis, the legendary British rockers resumed their U.S. tour Thursday night with a sell-out gig in Little...
More »Reuters - Feb 8, 2007
Who principals Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey performed a four-song acoustic set in London at a lunchtime press conference Thursday to mark the announcement of the band s European tour. The trek begins...
More »Reuters - Feb 8, 2007
The Who will be the headline act on the final Sunday night of this year s Glastonbury festival in England, the group said on Thursday. Singer Roger Daltrey and guitarist Pete Townshend, the two surviving...
More »Reuters - Jan 2, 2007
This year s first Coolest Song of the Week comes from an appropriately cool place: Solna, Sweden. The Nomads have been leading the contemporary garage rock movement in Sweden since 1980 -- a virtual...
More »Reuters - Dec 10, 2006
Don Bernstine travels the world visiting rock stars in their homes and backstage and spends tens of thousands of dollars of his employer s money buying guitars, concert costumes and other music memorabilia...
More »Reuters - Dec 8, 2006
Don Bernstine travels the world visiting rock stars in their homes and backstage and spends tens of thousands of dollars of his employer s money buying guitars, concert costumes and other music memorabilia...
More »Reuters - Dec 5, 2006
Steve Winwood, Pete Townshend, Paul Weller and Bill Wyman are among those taking part in an all-star celebration of the late Jim Capaldi, a former member of Traffic. The show will take place January...
More »Reuters - Nov 15, 2006
Keyboardist Ian McLagan says of Ronnie Lane, his late friend and bandmate in the Small Faces and the Faces, It s time people woke up to him, absolutely, but it s way late. Lane, who succumbed to multiple...
More »AP - Oct 26, 2006
Howard Stern s radio guests expect him to air their dirty laundry and play along. Pete Townshend isn t one of them. The legendary Who guitarist-songwriter ducked out of his scheduled interview on Stern...
More »Reuters - Oct 19, 2006
Not sure whether to see the Who on their latest tour? Here s some advice from the British rock band s leader, Pete Townshend: he wouldn t bother going. In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine,...
More »Reuters - Oct 12, 2006
On display in a Paris exhibition tracing the development of the guitar, it is almost a surprise to see Pete Townshend s Les Paul Deluxe intact and undamaged. The fiery guitarist of British rock group...
More »Reuters - Oct 11, 2006
OK, are you ready for this? a clearly tickled Roger Waters asked the red-eyed crowd after an intermission. So are we. About 18,000 minds began to wander -- side to side, back in time -- as the dozen...
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