From the wiki: “‘Squeeze Box’ was written by Pete Townshend, and was originally intended for a Who television special planned in 1974. The lyrics are couched in sexual double entendrés. In the planned performance of the song, the members of the band were to be surrounded by one-hundred...
The Who's guitarist, Pete Townshend, supposedly wrote "My Generation," his immortal fuck-off to the elders in his way, on his 20th birthday, May 19th, 1965, while riding a train from London to Southampton for a television appearance. The song wasn't intended as a youth-mutiny anthem at...
Pete Townshend (1980):After 15 years of writing mostly for Roger Daltrey's voice, Pete Townshend discovered his own on his proper solo debut. He also matched the Who's highest charting single when "Let My Love Open the Door" reached No. 9. 'Back in Black' Atlantic 'Back in Black' AC...
Thanks to guitarist and songwriter Pete Townshend, the Who got more ambitious than many of their peers when many of them were content to just bash out "Gloria" for the billionth time. They pretty much invented and perfected the rock opera on albums like 'Tommy' and 'Quadrophenia,' and wor...
Thanks to guitarist and songwriter Pete Townshend, the Who got more ambitious than many of their peers when many of them were content to just bash out "Gloria" for the billionth time. They pretty much invented and perfected the rock opera on albums like 'Tommy' and 'Quadrophenia,' and wor...
Writer: Pete Townshend Producers: Glyn Johns, the Who Released: July '71, Decca 13 weeks; No. 15 Townshend wrote this for an aborted concept album and film called Lifehouse. But many of that project's songs were resurrected for Who's Next, which started off with a week of demo sessions...
This week's new full-lengths include Miranda Lambert’s Postcards from Texas, The Wild Things’ concept album Afterglow (produced by Pete Townshend of The Who), COIN’s I’m Not Afraid of Music Anymore and Babyface Ray’s The Kid That Did. Also out this week, Maddie & Tae drop thei...
Thanks to guitarist and songwriter Pete Townshend, the Who got more ambitious than many of their peers when many of them were content to just bash out "Gloria" for the billionth time. They pretty much invented and perfected the rock opera on albums like 'Tommy' and 'Quadrophenia,' and wor...
“Long Live Rock”was written by Pete Townshend in 1971, but not included on The Who’s release that year,Who’s Next. The original recording of the song didn’t appear until 1974’s rarities album, entitledOdds & Sods. It was eventually released as a single in 1979. Written in the ...
Writer: Pete Townshend Producer: Shel Talmy Released: March '65, Decca 2 weeks; No. 93 For their debut single, the Who recorded Townshend's alleged answer to the Kinks' blazing "You Really Got Me." The Whoeven hired that song's producer, Talmy, who recruited additional players for the ...