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How The Who overcame internal strife to make their most poignant album
By Rob Hughes Published
By 1973 The Who were bored and angry – and Pete Townshend knew he had one last chance to hold the band together and unify them in the eyes of their fans

Pete Townshend finds stable ground away from The Who on Empty Glass
By Classic Rock Magazine Published
Empty Glass was Pete Townshend’s response to the death of Keith Moon and the arrival of punk

How Pete Townshend's disgust with the hippies inspired The Who's most epic song
By Classic Rock Magazine Published
Warning: Contain's rock's most epic scream

The story of one of rock’s mythical lost albums – and the two classics it eventually produced
By Mark Blake Published
The Who’s Lifehouse album could have been Pete Townshend’s masterpiece – but no one understood it

Pete Townshend names his five favourite Pete Townshend songs
By Fraser Lewry Published
Pete Townshend revealed the best songs he's written on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Who's Roger Daltrey on drugs, fights, death and the music that defined a generation
By Ian Fortnam Published
The Who: From pill-popping mod figureheads to Woodstock-generation rockers and beyond

"This is the way rock stars die." The Who's Pete Townshend reveals recent addiction to painkillers
By Stef Lach Published
Pete Townshend of The Who became dependent on painkillers after recent surgery but recovery is going well

Pete Townshend and the lifelong search for answers
By Ian Fortnam Published
The Who's Pete Townshend on parents, partnerships, punk, songwriting, the aristocracy, addiction, the internet and the ongoing search for extraordinary music
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