The Who are presenting an online watch party of the 2017 concert film ‘Tommy Live at Royal Albert Hall’ to raise money for charity.

The only thing less likely than Thunderclap Newman, the strange band masterminded by Pete Townshend in 1969, having a No. 1 single is the notion that a 400-plus page history of them would be published ...

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Jimi Hendrix’s arrival in London in September 1966 was a storm no one had forecast. Within months, he had assembled the Jimi Hendrix Experience and released three top-10 singles. In doing so, he ...

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The Who are famous for pioneering the rock opera. A concept album bringing a classical form to rock fans, the rock opera is the meeting ground for high art and low(er) art. Here we’ll be looking at ...

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 ...

The national tour of The Who‘s Tommy, the Des McAnuff-revival that played on Broadway last year, has been delayed by a year, with a new launch date of Fall 2026. Producers had previously announced ...

And in a sense, when I started to work on “Tommy,” it was as a way of trying to save myself as the composer for a big rock band. The only thing less likely than Thunderclap Newman, the strange band ...