Pete Townshend was born in London in 1945 and came of age during a peak period in British rock history, leading the Who as their guitarist and main songwriter. He penned classics like 'I Can't ...
In a new interview with the Toronto Sun, guitarist Pete Townshend asserts that The Who “invented heavy metal” music. Explaining why The Who’s “new album doesn’t sound that much like The Who in terms ...
A guitar owned by The Who rocker Pete Townshend has sold for £7,200 at action. The 1989 Takamine FP-360SC electro-acoustic guitar went under the hammer at Gardiner Houlgate auction house in ...
Pete Townshend is set to escape criminal charges over child pornography allegations. Plans are being drawn up to caution the rock star - a move that would spare him a damaging court case but leave ...
Queen's Brian May Says The Who's Pete Townshend 'Basically Invented' Rock Guitar: 'My Playing Owes So Much to Him' 'Classic Quadrophenia' : Pete Townshend Rocks the MET While Revisiting the Who's ...
Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle and Keith Moon formed the band in London in 1964. Within five years, they went from performing club shows to headlining the Woodstock festival in the ...
The only thing less likely than Thunderclap Newman, the strange band masterminded by Pete Townshend in 1969, having a No. 1 single is the notion that a 400-plus page history of them would be ...