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The Homewood Arts Council (HAC), a nonprofit organization that promotes local art and music, is hosting a Pete Townshend tribute concert with four acts, Dolph Chaney, Phil Angotti, Rick Rizzo and Sam ...
The Who created multiple seminal records over the course of their existence, but one effort from 1982 never really endeared itself to guitarist Pete Townshend.
With riffs that defined an era and lyrics that spoke to the soul, The Who's music remains as powerful as ever. But which ...
Fifty years ago next month, the College of the Holy Cross rocked to the Who playing the quintessential rock opera "Tommy" and ...
Petty had started out as a bass player, but when he moved to electric the seeds of one of rock’s greatest guitar partnerships ...
If the daily headline cycle isn’t quite dramatic enough for you, fantastic news: On Thursday, the 2025 Tony Awards ...
Eddie Van Halen was famed for his endlessly complex guitar stylings, but he owed a lot of his inspiration to the apparently "simple" sounds of Pete Townshend.
A rock legend is opening up about how he loves creating music, but is not so much a fan of performing it on stage. The Who ...
“One is they love performing. I don’t love performing. I don’t like being on a stage,” he said. “I don’t hate it, but it ...
George Harrison wrote this scathing rock song mere hours after walking away from a particularly tense Beatles fight in the late 1960s.
Pete Townshend suffered from an intense childhood insecurity that eventually led to him laying the groundwork for his future ...