Who's Pete Townshend plans new stage musical
AP, Aug 26, 2009 5:00 am PDTPete Townshend once wrote "I hope I die before I get old." He says he wants to use the angry medium of rock 'n' roll to take on issues of aging and mortality facing the baby boom generation.
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.
Townshend says "Floss" will focus on a pub-rock musician and his troubled relationship with his wife, who runs a riding stable.
Songs from "Floss" will feature on a new Who album due out next year,
Townshend says he is in talks with New York producers about staging the show in 2011.
Townshend's previous "rock operas" include "Quadrophenia" and "Tommy." Both started life as albums and later became films and stage musicals.
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