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"If someone tries to start a fight with you, put them down as fast and nastily as you possibly can": The wild life of The Who's combustion engine, John Entwistle

Delivering a deafening but dextrous bass-in-your-face assault, John Entwistle was a key part of The Who’s sound – and also their chemistry. This is his story

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“Saluting 60 years of rock rebellion.” The Who’s 60th anniversary to be celebrated by special Royal Mail stamps set

The Royal Mail is issuing 12 special stamps in honour of The Who’s formation in 1964

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"They're called The Experience, man. You've gotta see them": In December 1966 Jimi Hendrix released Hey Joe: Five days later he played a casino in a hotel basement

In late 1966 writer Chris Welch saw The Who play at a tiny East London club. Later that day, he saw Jimi Hendrix in an even smaller venue

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"Oh my goodness! It's so rousing! Especially the end!": The soundtrack of Gene Simmons' life

Kiss bassist, Demon and fire-breather Gene Simmons picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and names the "most dishonest" album Kiss ever made

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Forcing your cultural tastes onto your children isn’t just OK – it’s your moral duty

Liam Gallagher ‘forced’ his children to eschew Justin Bieber and listen to The Who and The Beatles... and he’s not alone. Is it right for a parent to inflict their taste on their offspring? Childless Louis Chilton weighs in

The Independent UK

"If we put a small band together and just decided to throw shit at the wall, it might be great": Pete Townshend addresses the future of The Who

It turns out there's a catch

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"The beauty here is how far he strays from The Who": Pete Townshend finds new ways to play old songs on Live In Concert 1985-2001

Live In Concert 1985-2001 comprises 14 discs of live recordings from The Who guitarist Pete Townshend

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“Ooh, this is not an easy song”: Here’s what happened when The Who’s bassist tried to learn the bassline to Dua Lipa’s Dance The Night as quickly as possible

“I like to be pretty meticulous about playing stuff the correct way,” says Jon Button

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“A lot of dedicated Who fans come to every show in order to see Roger hit me in the face again, for me to smash him over the head with a guitar”: Pete Townshend sets the record straight about Roger Daltrey's comments on The Who's retirement

Roger Daltrey had recently mentioned that he was “happy” that “that part of my life is over”

Guitar World

The precise location of The Who's mysterious concrete monolith from the cover of Who's Next has finally been pinpointed

Mystery solved

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"I’ll do it if Pete wants to do it - really wants to do it and do it properly“: Roger Daltrey on The Who's future and how the internet has “ruined” live music

Roger Daltrey criticises setlist sites

MusicRadar

Roger Daltrey talks new tour, thoughts on Broadway’s ‘Tommy’ and future of The Who

As Roger Daltrey hits the road on a short solo tour, he’s unsure if fans will ever see another tour from The Who

The Independent UK

"I often wonder what would have happened if Keith Moon and I had formed Led Zeppelin": How The Who stopped hating each other for long enough to shape the sound of the future

In 1966, The Who were a bunch of drinking, drugging, brawling rock stars-in-waiting. Pete Townshend was about to change all that

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"It's a group of musicians that Roger has chosen": Pete Townshend is candid about the live lineup of The Who in new interview

He also explains why he wouldn't want to follow the Rolling Stones and Pearl Jam in making an album with Andrew Watt

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In 1970 The Who recorded Live At Leeds: 36 years later they returned to the scene and played again

What happened when The Who went back to Leeds

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"On this album he proved he was so much more than a rock musician": The Pete Townshend album that measures up to The Who's best work

A late-70s blitz of punk, personal problems and tragedy forcedThe Who’s Pete Townshend to reassess his life and career.One of the results was his solo masterpiece Empty Glass

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The 10 most underrated Pete Townshend songs

From The Who’s forgotten singles to unsung solo gems, these are 10 classic Pete Townshend songs you’ll never hear on CSI

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"In hindsight I had problems, but at the time I really enjoyed the chaos I was creating": The Pete Townshend song that savaged a pair of music writers

Written in response to two journalists who said it was good that Keith Moon was dead, it's one of rock’s most spiteful songs

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"I doubt we will have anyone breaking through in the kind of monumental way that The Beatles did, or like The Who or The Rolling Stones": George Martin correctly predicted the future in 1983. Or did he?

Well, Taylor Swift fans might disagree…

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Master 6 rhythm guitar styles inspired by AC/DC, Metallica, The Who, Pantera, Guns N' Roses and Iron Maiden

Develop your pick hand technique with this look at some of rock and metal’s greatest players

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"AC/DC made 50 albums, but all their albums were the same. It wasn’t the way the Who worked. We were an ideas band": Pete Townshend admits he doesn't enjoy playing live with the band much anymore but still wants to release new music

"If I’m really honest, I’ve been touring for the money"

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"I remember saying to Eric, 'I'm going to play him off the stage one day'. But what Eric did was even more peculiar, he said, 'Well, I'm going to pretend that I am Jimi Hendrix!'": Pete Townshend looks back in this classic 1990 guitar interview

"The thing that really stunned Eric and me was the way he took what we did and made it better"

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"That the refined and regal Albert Hall feels like a home fixture for The Who, the least house-trained band of their generation, is not without irony": The Who thrill the hoi polloi at their second Teenage Cancer Trust show of 2024

The Who and the Heart of England orchestra join forces for what is surely one of the most joyously bombastic concerts London's magnificent Royal Albert Hall has ever seen

Louder

Watch Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder make a surprise appearance onstage with The Who in London to sing Quadrophenia classic

Eddie Vedder joins The Who onstage at the Royal Albert Hall in London at their second Teenage Cancer Trust show

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“It brings you to tears”: Listen to Pink Floyd's David Gilmour, Pete Townshend, Brian May, Tony Iommi, Alex Lifeson plus Jeff Beck's last-ever recording on stunning new version of Mark Knopfler's Going Home, raising funds for US and UK cancer charities

Hear some of the world's most iconic guitarists play together on one of rock's great instrumentals, re-recorded for charity, and available to purchase now

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