Who I Am: A Memoir Pete Townshend (Harper) Rating: 4 stars In the final verse of “The Seeker,” Pete Townshend declares: “I’m looking for me/You’re looking for you/We’re looking in at each other/And we don’t know what to do.” Forever restless, always probing—sometimes angrily, sometimes resignedly—Townshend remains ever the seeker, the spiritual pilgrim, searching for [...]

The Who Live in Texas ’75 (Eagle Rock) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars In the recording studio, The Who were rock’s sonic innovators, transforming Pete Townshend’s grandiose musical mischief into note-perfect, ball-busting brilliance. On-stage, they were a totally different beast: a quartet of sloppy, goofy loose cannons, fumbling their way through their epic catalog [...]

When you’ve got a catalog as vast and impressive as that of The Who, some noteworthy songs can get lost in the shuffle. “The Seeker” feels like one of those songs, in part because it was a non-album single recorded and released in 1970 between the twin triumphs of Tommy and Who’s Next. As a [...]

The Who’s Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend will reunite for a 37-date North American tour, and will be playing their 1973 album, Quadrophenia. The band announced the news today via a live video press conference. “It’s been four years since we’ve been out,” Townshend said. “We’ve been trying to find something we could do together, [...]

On January 24th, Spirit Music Group obtained all of the publishing rights to The Who’s immense catalog via the band’s chief songwriter, Pete Townshend. The catalog includes approximately 400 songs, which encompasses the entirety of Townshend’s writings over the last 50 some odd years. Although neither of the parties has disclosed how much the deal [...]

The Songwriters Hall of Fame has announced the nominees for the 2012 class. It’s an all-star list — Tom Waits, Lou Reed, Pete Townshend, Elvis Costello, George Michael, Dion DeMucci, Deborah Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie, Bob Seger, Eurythmics’ Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart, and Gordon Lightfoot have all been nominated as performing songwriters. [...]