Happy 80th birthday, Pete Townshend! Longtime readers will know he’s my favorite songwriting rock-and-roller, placed high on a pedestal that includes Bob Dylan and Van Morrison (who belong to no ...

A rumor that Pete Townshend of English rock band The Who, said American singer Bruce Springsteen was "a bit overrated" circulated online in May 2025. For example, Facebook account America's Last ...

Credit: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Desert Trip It’s been ages since Pete Townshend smashed a guitar onstage. The last time was 2007, when a Gibson acoustic guitar sadly met its fate in his ...

Credit: Robert DEYRAIL/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images When the film Rock Around the Clock arrived in England in 1956, Pete Townshend was among the youngsters who filled theaters eager for the sight ...

Pete Townshend is denying recent reports that The Who’s longtime drummer Zak Starkey was fired from the English rock band after 28 years. The 79-year-old guitarist confirmed on Saturday there ...

After The Who drummer Zak Starkey announced he was exiting the band earlier this week, founding member Pete Townshend took to social media to explain that the group has worked through their issues.

Despite The Who's Quadrophenia being set over 60 years ago, Pete Townshend's themes of identity, mental health, and modern masculinity are just as relevant today. The album is having a renaissance ...

Magazine. Kristina Bumphrey/Variety via Getty Pete Townshend knows a hit song when he writes one. During an interview with Rolling Stone published on Wednesday, March 24, The Who guitarist and ...

The Who’s legendary guitarist Pete Townshend admitted that the band’s most iconic song, “My Generation,” became “a burden.” “I hate playing it,” Townshend, 79, confessed on the ...

The Who’s Pete Townshend offered a shady explanation of his differences with fellow 1960s rock titans The Beatles. “When you look at early interviews with The Beatles, what they did is every ...

The only thing less likely than Thunderclap Newman, the strange band masterminded by Pete Townshend in 1969, having a No. 1 single is the notion that a 400-plus page history of them would be ...