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Child AbuseWatch.Net are demanding that Super Bowl organizers remove The Who from performing at the NFL Super Bowl XLIV halftime show set to take place February 7. The organization, which aims to protect children from child abuse, wants organizers to drop the band, but more specifically drop guitarist Pete Townshend.Child AbuseWatch.Net are demanding that Super Bowl organizers remove The Who from... more
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"Pete Townshend has announced plans for a new musical, songs from which will appear on a new album by the Who. Forget mods, rockers and pinball wizards – the production, Floss, concerns the angst of the ageing Baby Boomer generation.
"I am writing a new musical," Townshend blogged. "Floss is an ambitious new project for me, in the style of Tommy and Quadrophenia. In this case the songs are interspersed with surround-sound 'soundscapes' featuring complex sound effects and musical montages."
Townshend said the album is designed as an outdoor "son et lumière piece", to be debuted in 2011. He is in talks with producers in New York but hopes to release some of the musical's more "conventional" songs on a new Who album next year.
The musical tells the story of Walter, a pub-rock musician, who hits it big when one of his songs appears in a car advert. Suddenly wealthy, Walter becomes a "house-husband" as his wife, Floss, takes up horse riding. "When [Walter] tries to return to music after a 15-year hiatus," Townshend wrote, "he finds that what he hears and what he composes evoke the ecologically rooted, apocalyptic mindset of his generation. Shaken by this and torn by personal difficulties, he and Floss become estranged."
Townshend described the piece as a sort of response to My Generation, the 1965 hit he calls "the most explicitly ageist song in rock". "At 64," he wrote, "I now want to take on ageing and mortality, using the powerfully angry context of rock'n'roll."
The guitarist's announcement comes as a pleasant surprise after a year and a half of depressing interviews in which Townshend said things like "I am no longer a member of a band called the Who". Singer Roger Daltrey made similar comments, saying, "I think [the Who] have done enough already. It would be great to have something new, but it doesn't really matter." The Who's last album was 2006's Endless Wire.""Pete Townshend has announced plans for a new musical, songs from which will... more
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The 31st annual Kennedy Center honors has brought together some of the biggest names in entertainment and politics.The 31st annual Kennedy Center honors has brought together some of the biggest names... more
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Photographs of the rock and roll band The Who performing at the Izod Center in East Rutherford, NJ on Wednesday, October 29, 2008.Photographs of the rock and roll band The Who performing at the Izod Center in East... more
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The Who are to treat their fan club members to two intimate shows in London this Christmas.
Playing the indig02 on December 14 and 15, legendary rockers Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend will play their smallest shows in years as a "thank you" to fans, also known as 'Wholigans.'
Ticket prices start at £45 and will be available as first come first served from the band's website www.thewho.com, from Friday October 24 at 11am.
Tickets will be issued with passcodes to the buyers to prevent them being touted on.The Who are to treat their fan club members to two intimate shows in London this... more
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