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“I found him at the studio. I said, ‘You never called me back. I got nothing going on my career, you left me in the lurch’”: Pete Townshend offered Peter Frampton his place in the Who – then blanked him

Frampton was at an all-time low and Townshend wanted to quit touring, but it didn't quite work out

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"I walked through it all and felt like spitting on the lot of them". How Pete Townshend's disgust with the hippies inspired The Who's most epic song

Warning: Contain's rock's most epic scream

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"We were the first heavy metal band." Roger Daltrey says The Who pioneered the genre of music we all love so much

The Who frontman says they pushed the boundaries of volume and onstage antics before anyone else

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"So much of this music goes on for so long that one begins to long for the discipline of the 45rpm record." The story behind the only night that British rock legends Led Zeppelin and The Who shared a stage

On the evening of May 25, 1969, in an amphitheatre in Maryland, rock history was made

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“When we went to record it, the record company said, ‘Man, they won’t play that, it’s too long.’ But we said, ‘We don’t care!’”: How the young Lynyrd Skynyrd turned a simple love song into a southern rock epic

"Ronnie said, 'Just go till I tell you to quit!'"

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"We were so down about what had happened to our career and our friends and our band." Gary Rossington on the triumph and tragedy of Lynyrd Skynyrd

He started the band and survived its darkest hour, never losing faith in music’s healing power. If anyone represented the soul of Lynyrd Skynyrd, it was their late guitarist, Gary Rossington

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Pete Townshend sells out: Primary Wave group acquires rights to Who guitarist’s music, image, likeness and name

“I know we will have a lot of fun working together” says guitarist

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"I think people who were fans of grunge like Soundgarden would be floored by Swervedriver." Sugar and Hüsker Dü man Bob Mould picks the soundtrack of his life

Hüsker Dü, Sugar and solo songwriter and musician Bob Mould picks his records,artists and gigs of lasting significance

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Roger Daltrey pays tribute to Keith Altham, legendary rock music publicist of The Rolling Stones and the Who

Renowned publicist is credited with giving Jimi Hendrix the idea to set his guitar on fire in 1967

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Jack Douglas, celebrated producer for Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, John Lennon and more, dead at 80

Jack Douglas also worked on recordings by James Gang, Alice Cooper, Montrose, Mountain, The Who, Patti Smith, Blue Öyster Cult, New York Dolls, Starz and many more

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"It's like The Who channelling Cheap Trick, filled with catchy pop songs slathered with hard rock guitars." How the folk songs of Pope John Paul II buried one of rock'n'roll's great lost albums

Signed by Heart's management and to the same record label as the head of the Catholic Church, TKO toured with everyone from Cheap Trick and The Kinks to Foreigner and Van Halen: It wasn't enough

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Wolf Alice debut two unreleased songs at Royal Albert Hall gig

Wolf Alice closed this year's Teenage Cancer Trust gigs with a performance at the Royal Albert Hall. The band debuted two new unreleased songs, 'Hit The Sky' and 'Gospel Oak', during their set. The gig came after performances from Manic Street Preachers on Thursday, My Bloody Valentine on Friday and…

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“I was amazed that my hard work might come back to help me”: Jim Gustafson and Poobah endured decades in the dark, but now their early albums are selling for $1,000 a copy

Even though his band was produced by Billy Cox and opened for Judas Priest, Alice Cooper, Ted Nugent, and countless others, industry issues held him back. And yet, powered by his original Marshalls and pedals, Jim Gustafson's determination means he’s still out there today

Guitar World

“He listened to the first two tunes, picked up the album and smashed it against the wall. It was the only one we had!” This 1968 hit made a prog pioneer into a global star – but even he didn’t like it at first

With the help of The Who and Jimi Hendrix, and a helmet he found outside his hotel room, the bandleader acquired a nickname he’s now carried for nearly 60 years

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"We have no use for a standalone singer who doesn't play an instrument, preening themselves like a rock god": Atomic Rooster guitarist Steve Bolton on reviving the band, changing frontmen, and John Entwistle's phallic number plate

On the back of their first album in 42 years, Atomic Rooster are about to hit the road

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“I spent four days arguing about what could be done with an orchestra.” The story of a Smashing Pumpkins classic, aided by The Who, the cast of Titanic and SpongeBob SquarePants

Billy Corgan & co. entered into a different realm with this all-time cut from Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness

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“I think Roger just got lost. Roger’s finding it difficult. I have to be careful what I say about Roger because he gets angry if I say anything about him at all": Pete Townshend has his say on Zak Starkey’s protracted dismissal from The Who

“He’ll be sacking me next,” quips the guitarist, “but that’s not to say that he sacked Zak”

Guitar World

“I toured with Stevie Ray Vaughan when he was sober and he was a freak of nature. I couldn’t relate to his playing”: The Outlaws' Henry Paul on opening for The Rolling Stones, finding fame thanks to Lynyrd Skynyrd, and his one-of-one red Gretsch Falcon

The Gibson loyalist who’s served three stints with the Outlaws has been there, done that – played to stadium crowds, seen rock's greatest guitar heroes up close and witnessed prime-era Keith Moon debauchery

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"Ronnie said, 'Just go till I tell you to quit!'"

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"I’m still confused." Zak Starkey still doesn't know why he was fired – then rehired and fired again – from The Who

Drummer Zak Starkey holds no grudges after dramatic in-again-out-again saga with The Who

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"His performance was so far out of time, out of tune": The shambolic story of The Rolling Stones' star-studded Rock And Roll Circus

With Brian Jones falling apart on set, the Rock And Roll Circus went so badly that the planned film wasn’t released until 28 years later

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“I said: ‘If the South Park guys are gonna do a Barbra Streisand on us, it’s a no’”: How Queen, The Who and Star Wars inspired the greatest power ballad about alien abduction ever written

It even got the South Park seal of approval

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Remarkable discovery triples value of wood grain bass guitar linked to Queen

The grain-matching technique also revealed its appearance in Queen’s 1986 video for their top 20 hit, ‘Friends Will Be Friends’

Evening Standard

It’s a kind of magic: Wood grain analysis reveals bass guitar’s link to Queen

The 1986 Warwick Buzzard owned by The Who’s John Entwistle is now expected to fetch treble its original price estimate at auction next month.

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“I'm quite interested in AI... getting some of my songs that didn’t quite work and putting them up onto Suno... there might be hits”: Why Pete Townshend is interested in using AI

But then the Who guitarist has never been afraid of tech

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