When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Gijsbert Hanekroot/Redferns Whether smashing guitars or popularizing the concept album, ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage One of the the early 1970s’ most iconic rock images is of Pete ...
Revisiting comments from The Who's Pete Townshend on one of his favourite guitarists of all time, Eddie Van Halen, who he claims "blew us all away".
Townshend was a talented player in his own right, but he readily admitted to not being as technically proficient as Hendrix, or such other contemporaries as Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, and Jeff Beck. In ...
Pete Townshend has speculated that he took to smashing guitars on stage in response to his father refusing to support his youthful musical ambitions. When the Who became famous, Townshend became ...
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Pete Townshend on his desperate search for the guitar behind the Who’s status as rock legends
One of the the early 1970s’ most iconic rock images is of Pete Townshend in a white jumpsuit playing a cherry-red Gibson SG Special. The Who were rock’s newly christened gods in 1970, thanks to the ...
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