The nonprofit Homewood Arts Council bringing rock veterans together for birthday tribute to Pete Townshend of The Who.

Pete Townshend suffered from an intense childhood insecurity that eventually led to him laying the groundwork for his future ...

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Eddie Van Halen was famed for his endlessly complex guitar stylings, but he owed a lot of his inspiration to the apparently "simple" sounds of Pete Townshend.

It was the reason I did everything.It’s the reason I played the guitar.” Pete Townshend on the awful gift that made the Who ...

However, the veteran guitarist has recently admitted he's far from a natural collaborator – in fact, he was largely the Who's ...

Songwriter, guitarist and founding member of the Who, Townshend was once described as, “A nose on a stick” by singer Roger ...

The Who created multiple seminal records over the course of their existence, but one effort from 1982 never really endeared itself to guitarist Pete Townshend.

It featured the two core members of the group, 81-year-old lead singer Roger Daltrey and soon-to-be-80-year-old songwriter and lead guitarist Pete ... And Townshend, yes, did his windmill guitar ...