The new re-issue of the Who's 'Quadrophenia' takes us back to mid 1973, when the Who were unofficially dubbed the worlds greatest live rock 'n' roll band and had several successful recordings under ...

Tommy (MCA, 1969) brought The Who to a mainstream audience and Who's Next (MCA, 1971) solidified its position in the pantheon of 1960's-1970's artists. But it is Quadrophenia (MCA, 1973) that has ...

The rock world got a pretty good taste of Pete Townshend's songwriting ambitions in 1969 with the Who's Tommy, one of the more fully realized concept albums of the era. But as it turned out, Townshend ...

Few songwriters in British rock have had loftier goals, and more success, than Pete Townshend of the Who, and few works from the classic rock era are as accomplished and emotionally rich as ...

The 80-year-old rock legend picked The Who’s 1973 rock opera Quadrophenia. The double-LP set was the band’s first album to be written and produced solely by Townshend, which Pete admitted was a factor ...

Album cover for The Who’s 1973 rock opera, “Quadrophenia,” which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this week. The Who’s “Quadrophenia” — a rock opera composed by guitarist Pete Townshend is turning ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: No songwriter has ever captured the combustible mix of teenage fury and frailty as well as The Who’s Pete Townshend. The band’s violent interplay and interpersonal ...

Tommy was first. The Who’s 1969 opera legitimized the improbable union of rock abandon and extended narrative, and marked guitarist Pete Townshend’s great leap forward as a composer and as his band’s ...

Listening to The Who's debut album with a 6-decade perspective, it is hard to believe this band would evolve into the ...

Produced by Concept Concerts this production, acclaimed by a Sunday Times journalist as “Mighty, moving and unstoppable,” sees 8-piece band, The Goldhawks, deliver a stunning live performance of The ...

When The Who chose to play its 1973 rock opera, “Quadrophenia,” in its entirety on this winter's North American tour, it opened the group up to speculation that it's following the recent trend of ...

For some reason The Who doesn't seem to get as much of their due when people talk about the greatest acts in rock history. The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin routinely get their props, ...