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Pete Townshend News

Pete Townshend announces new rock opera and forthcoming Who album

'Floss' musical is set to debut in 2011

  • Aug 25, 2009

PETE TOWNSHEND CONTEMPLATED SUICIDE

The Who guitarist says, "If I had had a gun, I would have shot myself"...

  • Dec 29, 2003

'I'M NO PAEDOPHILE' - PETE TOWNSHEND

Who legend admits studying child porn as part of campaign he was mounting against paedophilia ...

  • Jan 11, 2003

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Pete Townshend Videos

Backstage with Peter Doherty

Backstage with Peter Doherty

We catch-up with Pete Doherty at his solo gig on the Shockwaves NME Awards Show 2009.

Peter Doherty Interview - Part Three

Peter Doherty Interview - Part Three

Pete discusses his birthday, forthcoming tour and strained relationships in part three of our NME Radio session.

Peter Doherty Interview - Part One

Peter Doherty Interview - Part One

Watch the first part of Pete's visit to NME's radio studio, where he blames us for his name change.

Pete Doherty: NME Cover Shoot

Pete Doherty: NME Cover Shoot

We meet Pete Doherty in Paris where he muses over his new life in France and turning 30.

NME Video: Fall Out Boy - October 2008

NME Video: Fall Out Boy - October 2008

Pete from the band talks life, love and rock star tantrums.

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YouTube Pete Townshend Videos

Kennedy Center Honors - Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey

Kennedy Center Honors - Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey (04:43)

President George Bush salutes Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey of The Who

Pete Townshend's Best Bits

Pete Townshend's Best Bits (03:01)

A compilation of video clips of Pete Townshend smashing his guitar, solos, slides and stuff like that

Why I love Pete Townshend.

Why I love Pete Townshend. (01:08)

The last few seconds of The Who's Live Aid performance back in 1985. Twenty-two years after they started playing, Pete Townshend proves once again why he is one of rock & roll's best frontmen and outperforms kids half...

Alan Rogan, Guitar Tech for Pete Townshend of The Who

Alan Rogan, Guitar Tech for Pete Townshend of The Who (06:33)

Guitar tech to rock royalty for decades, Alan Rogan talks about his long stint with Who guitar legend Pete Townshend, and explains why Pete's custom-modded Fender Stratocaster® guitar and Vibro-King® amp are "the...

Pete Townshend-Let My Love Open The Door

Pete Townshend-Let My Love Open The Door (03:04)

This is the last Townshend clip from Jools Holland that I have. This too was a request

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Pete Townshend Biography

Peter Dennis Blandford "Pete" Townshend (born 19 May, 1945) is an English rock guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and author, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for The Who, as well as for his own solo career. His career with The Who spans more than forty years, during which time the band grew to be considered one of the most influential bands of the rock era, in addition to being "possibly the greatest live band ever."

Townshend is the primary songwriter for the Who, having written well over one hundred songs for the band's eleven studio albums, including concept albums, and the rock operas Tommy and Quadrophenia and popular rock radio staples including Who's Next, plus dozens more that appeared as non-album singles, bonus tracks on reissues, and tracks on rarities compilations such as Odds and Sods. He has also written over one hundred songs for his solo albums and rarities compilations. Although known mainly for being a guitarist, he is also an accomplished singer and keyboard player and has played many other instruments on his solo albums, and on some Who albums (such as banjo, accordion, synthesizer, piano, bass guitar, drums).

He has also written newspaper and magazine articles, book reviews, essays, books, and scripts. Townshend was ranked #3 in Dave Marsh's list of Best Guitarists in The New Book of Rock Lists and #50 in Rolling Stone magazine list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".

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Pete Townshend's Best Songs

  • 1. Let My Love Open the Door
  • 2. Rough Boys
  • 3. Face the Face
  • 4. Give Blood
  • 5. Slit Skirts
  • 6. A Little is Enough
  • 7. And I Moved
  • 8. Jools and Jim
  • 9. I Am An Animal
  • 10. Let My Love Open The Door (Live)
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Pete Townshend Discography

Pete Townshend albums.

  • White City - (Hip-O Records/US)
  • Psychoderelict - 15/07/1993 (Atlantic/GB)
  • The Iron Man - 19/06/1989 (Virgin/GB)
  • White City: A Novel - (ATCO Records/US)
  • All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes - 06/1982 (Atlantic/US)
  • Empty Glass - (ATCO Records/US)
  • Who Came First - (Rykodisc/US)

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