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"When we did Live Aid, we could barely play": Pete Townshend says The Who invented stadium rock and then gave it away
By Paul Elliott published
He also prefers ABBA to Queen

"It was a fair fight that I got thrown out of the band for, because Moon came for me with a tambourine": When Roger Daltrey was fired from The Who at the worst possible time in 1965
By Rob Laing published
Best of 2024: "When they got on amphetamines the music just turned to a load of crap," reflected the singer

"I'm going to pretend I'm Hendrix!'": Pete Townshend looks back in this classic 1990 guitar interview
By Guitarist magazine published
Best of 2024: "The thing that really stunned Eric and me was the way he took what we did and made it better"

Shel Talmy, legendary producer of the Who and the Kinks, dies aged 87
By Jonathan Horsley published
He produced My Generation and other classics

“Somebody needs to occasionally slap Rick Rubin”: Pete Townshend criticises producer’s mixed messages about creativity
By Will Simpson published
He says creativity is “about everybody”

“I would love to do another album and I may try to bully him on that": Pete Townshend on future Who plans
By Will Simpson published
The Who will definitely "do something" in 2025, according to Townshend

"I’ll do it if Pete wants to do it - really wants to do it": Roger Daltrey on The Who's future and how the web has “ruined” live music
By Will Simpson published
Roger Daltrey criticises setlist sites

Pete Townshend is candid about the live lineup of The Who in new interview
By Rob Laing published
He also explains why he wouldn't want to follow the Rolling Stones and Pearl Jam in making an album with Andrew Watt

“I doubt anyone will break through in the way The Beatles did”: Did George Martin correctly predict the future in 1983?
By Andy Jones published
Well, Taylor Swift fans might disagree…

"Nobody's gonna tell me that a hunk of wood with strings stretched across it is sacred": Pete Townshend reveals all about why he became a guitar smasher
By Rob Laing published
"I think a lot of people struggle to buy their first instruments, they build up a relationship with them but I never had that but I don't know quite why that is"
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