He claimed Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton both praised him for his talent, which he honed in response to the performance style ...

He says Marshall's '60s amps were rife for experimentation while discussing his “musical” use of screaming amps ...

There have been many great guitarists, and Pete Townshend is one of the greatest - but he always believed there was one who did everything he couldn't do.

Whether smashing guitars or popularizing the concept album, the Who’s Pete Townshend has always done things differently. In a newly resurfaced 1990 interview with Guitarist magazine, he sheds ...

A guitar owned by The Who rocker Pete Townshend has sold for £7,200 at action. The 1989 Takamine FP-360SC electro-acoustic guitar went under the hammer at Gardiner Houlgate auction house in ...

Rock guitarist Pete Townshend was cautioned by police today over child porn offences. But Scotland Yard said The Who star would be placed on the sex offenders' register for five years. Townshend ...

The Who often drew from their real-life experiences when writing songs, but 'Tommy' was particularly autobiographical for ...

Pete Townshend was born in London in 1945 and came of age during a peak period in British rock history, leading the Who as their guitarist and main songwriter. He penned classics like 'I Can't ...

The Who's guitarist Pete Townshend has told how he had homosexual liaisons in his youth. The rock legend said he had sex with two men 'consciously' and another 'unconsciously' during his drug ...

Queen's Brian May Says The Who's Pete Townshend 'Basically Invented' Rock Guitar: 'My Playing Owes So Much to Him' 'Classic Quadrophenia' : Pete Townshend Rocks the MET While Revisiting the Who's ...

The guitar smashing was basically marketing ... Photo of The Who; L-R: Pete Townshend, Keith Moon, John Entwistle, Roger Daltrey - posed, studio, group shot "It was a fair fight that I got ...