30 08 2024
THE TRUE STORY OF THUNDERCLAP NEWMAN, THE BAND EVERYONE KNOWS BUT HAS FORGOTTEN, THEIR 1969 ONE-HIT WONDER ‘SOMETHING IN THE AIR’ AND THE BIRTH OF BRITISH INDIE MUSIC “I will turn to Wilkerson’s book again and again to be reminded […]
6 08 2024
Jem Aswad writes in the current edition of Variety . . . “Rising U.K. rockers the Wild Things have announced Afterglow, a new concept album that, fittingly enough, is co-produced by The Who’s Pete Townshend. The ambitious album “tells the […]
25 07 2024
Musical greats including Sir Elton John and Pete Townshend have joined up with other big musical names to collaborate on a new ’literary and musical reinvention’ of Hermann Hesse’s classic novel Siddhartha. Pete Townshend and Rachel Fuller Musicians and actors will […]
29 06 2024
Here is the review by Chris Charlesworth of Steve Turner‘s most excellent book, King Mod, the story of Peter Meaden, The Who and the birth of a British subculture. In July of 1963 Peter Meaden returned to the UK from […]
25 06 2024
MEET THE NEW GENERATION . . . In 1973, guitar-smashing rock genius Pete Townshend wrote the epic album QUADROPHENIA. Recorded by The Who – it quickly became an iconic and multi-million selling album. Quadrophenia defined a generation and in […]
6 06 2024
14-CD / DIGITAL BOX SET FEATURING SEVEN LONG-OUT-OF-PRINT LIVE SHOWS PLUS A 28-PAGE BOOKLET WITH SLEEVE NOTES BY PETE TOWNSHEND AND WHO ARCHIVIST MATT KENT RELEASED BY UMR ON 26th JULY 2024 AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW https://petetownshend.lnk.to/LiveInConcert “When Pete […]
20 05 2024
“Not just good but achingly good” ~ The New York Times “Really fabulous new music . . . just delightful.” ~ BBC Radio 2 The Bookshop Band came to life as an artistic collaboration with their local bookshop Mr B’s […]
13 05 2024
TEENAGE WASTELAND: THE WHO AT WINTERLAND 1968 and 1976 by Edoardo Genzolini with foreword by Joel Selvin Reviewed by IRISH JACK PETE TOWNSHEND takes a giant leap across the stage and the audience is going wild. He is at Winterland […]
9 05 2024
Roger Daltrey – legendary rock icon and co-founder of one of music’s most inspirational and influential forces, The Who has added some more dates to his 2024 US Summer Tour. He will be appearing with his band at the Keswick […]
20 04 2024
It’s Record Store Day and The Who are participating with the reissue of 1976’s The Story Of The Who, sometimes regarded as the most complete Who ‘best of’ album. The gatefold sleeve includes a replica of the original 8-page booklet […]
