Pete Townshend
| Born | May 19, 1945 |
| Hometown | Chiswick, United Kingdom |
| Net worth | $150 million |
| Height | 6'0" (1.82m) |
| Spouse | Rachel Fuller, Karen Astley |
| Children | Emma Townshend, Joseph Townshend, Aminta Townshend |
| Parents | Cliff Townshend |
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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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- CelebrityVariety
Pete Townshend Now Says There Will Not Be a Who Farewell Tour: ‘I Was Being Sarcastic’
It turns out that when Pete Townshend recently told the New York Times that he was planning on a final Who farewell tour, he was “being sarcastic,” he told the “Sound Up!” podcast in an interview released today (April 16). “It feels to me like there’s one thing the Who can do, and that’s a …
- CelebrityNY Post
Meet the Pete Townshend-approved breakout star of ‘The Who’s Tommy’ on Broadway
“He hasn’t needed a lecture about what makes a star, and what can cause a star to fall. He just gets it.”
- EntertainmentRolling Stone
The Wild Things Will Get By With a Little Help From Their Friends on New EP
The Who's Pete Townshend, Kiss' Tommy Thayer, and Trixie Mattel will also feature on Friends With Benefits
- EntertainmentHartford Courant
The Who’s Roger Daltrey to perform solo show at Mohegan Sun Arena
The Who vocalist Roger Daltrey’s 2024 solo tour will include a June 23 date at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville. According to a press release, Daltrey will play “a mostly acoustic set of Who gems, rarities, solo nuggets and other surprises with an intimate rock-based band and setting.” There will also be a Q&A element to the show, with Daltrey answering questions from the audience. The opening ...
- EntertainmentThe Daily Beast
How Ali Louis Bourzgui of ‘The Who’s Tommy’ Became Broadway’s Breakout Star
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/Getty Images/Matthew Murphy and Evan ZimmermanThe Who’s Tommy on Broadway ends with a “huge burst of energy,” both from the performers and also radiating right back at them from ecstatic-seeming audiences, Ali Louis Bourzgui said. The 24-year-old actor—playing the title character, making his critically acclaimed Broadway debut—told The Daily Beast that after every show he leaves the stage, then cools down in his dressing room for around 15 min
- EntertainmentVariety
‘Tommy’ Review: Broadway Musical Revival is Strictly for the Boomers
There are two kinds of people in this world: Those that love bone-shaking, ear-splitting spectacles, like fireworks and arena-sized heavy metal concerts, and those who want nothing more than to miss such events for a night on the couch with a good book and a cup of hot chocolate. One such person had a seat …
- EntertainmentDeadline
‘The Who’s Tommy’ Broadway Review: Still A Sensation
Certainly one definition of great music might include an ability to meet the present – and the future – head-on and come out unbruised, even triumphant. By that standard and many more, The Who’s Tommy, opening tonight on Broadway, is thrilling proof that the premiere concept album of 1969 is great music indeed. Gloriously directed …
- EntertainmentChicago Tribune
Review: ‘Tommy’ opens on Broadway, Pete Townshend’s generational howl of anguish
NEW YORK — Pete Townshend’s prescient 1969 rock opera “Tommy,” a horrifying if ultimately transcendent howl of anger and anguish at the damage wrought on the boomer generation by their war-scarred parents, has returned to Broadway in a new, born-in-Chicago production from director Des McAnuff that will sock you right in the gut. McAnuff, of course, is the guy who first theatricalized this ...
- EntertainmentNY Post
‘The Who’s Tommy’ Broadway review: 4 stars for a galvanizing rock revival
That we all have an inner adult and an inner child is a deeply relatable idea, even in a cuckoosical such as this one.
- EntertainmentEntertainment Weekly
“The Who's Tommy ”review: Pete Townshend's rock opera is a Broadway sensation
See it. Feel it. "The Who's Tommy" is back on Broadway in an electrifying revival that blends surreal projections with sensational choreography.
