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World Premiere of Rachel Fuller’s The Seeker

Pete Townshend and Alfie Boe will join other leading musical artists for a world premiere, one-night only performance of Rachel Fuller’s The Seeker, a unique musical and graphic reinvention of Hermann Hesse’s classic novel, Siddhartha, which became a global phenomenon in the 1960s. This special event will feature […]

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HOLLYWOOD DREAM The Thunderclap Newman Story by Mark Wilkinson

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 […]

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Wild Things announce new Pete Townshend-produced album ‘Afterglow’

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 […]

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Pete and Rachel collaborate on a reinvention of Siddhartha

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 […]

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King Mod, the story of Peter Meaden, the Who and the birth of a British subculture

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 […]

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Pete Townshend’s Quadrophenia: A Mod Ballet

  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 […]

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