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23 de may. de 2024 · Pete Townshend, legendary guitarist and songwriter, has left an indelible mark on rock music as a founding member of The Who. Known for his explosive guitar work and introspective songwriting ...
13 de may. de 2024 · The Who- Tommy 55th- Pete Townshend pt1. “Rock’n’roll is about the moment you become alone, the moment when you grow up, the moment when you leave home,” The Who’s Tommy composer Pete Townshend declares. “You have no protection anymore. Your family haven’t disowned you, and you haven’t disowned your family, but from then on you ...
21 de may. de 2024 · Queen ‘s Brian May has praised The Who ‘s Pete Townshend, saying that he “basically invented” rock guitar – see the post below. Taking to Instagram yesterday (May 20), May shared an ...
20 de may. de 2024 · The Who- Tommy 55th- Pete Townshend pt2. “Sexual abuse, narcissism, cults and celebrity are contemplated…If anything, it’s more pertinent now than it was in 1969”, writes Rob Tannenbaum in the New York Times about The Who’s Tommy, back on Broadway with Pete Townshend’s book and score, and direction once again by Des McAnuff.
23 de may. de 2024 · “My playing owes so much to him. I’m not talking about the blues-influenced playing which also underpinned the evolution of 70s and 80s rock music - Townshend brought to the scene a blistering clang of super-amplified but not over-saturated chords - razor-edged monoliths crashing angrily through our brains, biting rhythmic hammer blows which would change the likes of me forever.”
6 de may. de 2024 · And, yes, Pete Townshend turned up last night to pay his respects to his friend Des McAnuff (book author, director and Tony winner and nominee for the Broadway production of ‘Tommy’), who was being honoured at the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards 20th anniversary Gala at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.
23 de may. de 2024 · In 1983, after saying he could no longer convincingly write music for The Who, Townshend announced he was leaving the band. In retrospect, it’s not a stretch to see Empty Glass as a kind of end-of-themarriage moment, where Townshend divorced The Who – first spiritually, then literally – and left them to do exactly what he feared they might, which was to just bash on.
