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Pete Townshend- Empty Glass 45th Anniversary

Was "Who Came First" a question or a declarative statement in October 1972? Pete Townshend joins me In the Studio for the answer on the golden anniversary of his first of many great solo albums, which we feature here.

Who- Live at Leeds @55- Pete Townshend 5-4

Join Pete Townsend and the late John Entwistle In the Studio the week of May 4 on the album's fifty-fifth anniversary for the memories of performing and recording The Who "Live at Leeds", the album Rolling Stone magazine readers ranked as the greatest live album of all time!

Pete Townshend- Rough Boys- Cannes 1-29-86

Pete Townshend took his all-star Deep End band to the annual MIDEM music convention in Cannes France at the end of February 1986 to perform live on the legendary Rockpalast television show stage. His setlist included the song "Rough Boys", which…

Pete Townshend- Empty Glass 45th 4-21

"On Empty Glass I was groping for a title for the album which would demonstrate what I believed at the time, which was that I was there with an empty heart," Pete Townshend confided here In the Studio. Pete Townshend is my guest for the hour on the forty-fifth anniversary of "Empty Glass" here In the Studio the week of April 21.
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Woodstock- Carlos Santana, Pete Townshend, Graham Nash

Woodstock Festival fifty-five years ago was unequaled in sheer scale, still heard in the voices of Carlos Santana, Pete Townshend, the late Paul Kantner of the Jefferson Airplane, Graham Nash of Crosby, Stills, and Nash, and the late Alvin Lee of Ten Years After, all here In the Studio in part one.
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The Who- Tommy- Pete Townshend pt2

The conclusion of the story of The Who's "Tommy" pt 2 with Pete Townshend In the Studio.
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The Who- Tommy- Pete Townshend pt1

The many stages of The Who's "Tommy" conception, gestation, and birth as the first successful rock opera are further revealed, it seems, every time "Tommy"  composer Pete Townshend cleans out a storage closet. Townshend joins Redbeard In the Studio to present this rock sonogram of The Who "Tommy"  while still in the creative womb, part 1.
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Who- Quadrophenia – Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, the late John Entwistle

Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey join me In the Studio in this interview for the first in a two-part look at "Quadrophenia", the last word on Townshend's October 1973 rock opera, which certainly is much more appreciated today than upon its initial release ...(more)
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Who- Quadrophenia- Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, the late John Entwistle pt2

(cont)... As The Who's recognized Quadrophenia auteur , Townshend has assessed their almost half-century of musical creation and found it to be good . Pete is a delightful , witty , thoughtful , and refreshingly honest conversationalist who can easily and effectively examine The Who's epic 1973 opus through a slightly-detached , objective eye which only the passage of time , and maturity , can provide . -Redbeard

The Who- 5:15- Toronto 12-17-82

In this live concert performance in 1982 of "5:15", originally on "Quadrophenia", the Who thunders through the song like a locomotive, with Kenney Jones on drums and the late John Entwistle on bass.