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Terms of the contract were not disclosed, but the arrangement, which was announced last month, is rumored to be as much as $100 million. “It’s the biggest deal we’ve made so far,” Spirit president Mark Fried told Rolling Stone, apparently stopping just...
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January 24th, Spirit Music Group obtained all of the publishing rights to The Who’s immense catalog via the band’s chief songwriter, Pete Townshend. The catalog includes approximately 400 songs, which encompasses the entirety of Townshend’s writings...
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A Christies employ poses with a guitar played at Wembley in 1985 during a Live Aid performance by British rock guitarist Pete Townshend that is estimated to fetch between 10,000 and 15,000 British pounds (16000 - 24000 US dollars) during a press... View Photo »
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Whatever Barry says about me in this book of his (and I haven't read it yet) will probably be nonsense
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Townshend of The Who has announced he'll be selling the publishing rights to his entire catalog of tunes to a firm called the Spirit Music Group. The firm controls varying degrees of rights to songs by several major rock acts. This news, which was...
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It's a wonderful, optimistic sound." The Who legend pictured next to a Tommy hoarding in the early 1990s (© Steve Goldstein/Corbis) Back in 1990, Guitarist magazine caught up with The Who guitarist and songwriter Pete Townshend, who was...
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Townshend performs during the Prince's Trust Rock Gala. Over the past 20 years, the Who's music has been used to sell sports cars, allergy medicine and three incarnations of CSI. But that was just the beginning. On January 24th, Pete Townshend announced...
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A guitar owned by Pete Townshend and played during The Who's performance at Live Aid at Wembley in 1985 is put on display for the media ahead of a Pop and Rock memorabilia sale at Christie's in London Friday Nov. 11, 2011. The sale estimated between... View Photo »
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We didn't need light and shade
– Pete Townshend SOURCE: Digital Spy -
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The Who, which was listed as “the world’s greatest rock band, ” had such great hits like I Can See for Miles, Who Are You, My Generation, Teenage Wasteland, Won’t Get Fooled Again, Happy Jake, The Seeker, and from the rock opera Tommy, Pinball Wizard. ...
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The Shangri-La Ranch, in the hills of Malibu, Calif. , has been the site of recordings by a litany of famous musicians over the years, including Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, Pete Townshend, The Band, Jackson Browne, Keith Richards, Weezer,...
About Pete Townshend
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Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend (pronounced "TOWN zend") (born 19 May 1945 in Chiswick, London), is an English rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, composer, and writer, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for The Who, as well as for his own solo career. His career with The Who spans more than forty years, during which time the... Full Article
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A guitar owned by Pete Townshend and played during The Who's performance at Live Aid at Wembley in 1985 is put on display for the media ahead of a Pop and Rock memorabilia sale at Christie's in London Friday Nov. 11, 2011. The sale estimated between 10,000 and 15,000 pounds (11,600 and...
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LONDON, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 09: (L-R) Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend of The Who receive the Classic Album award for Quadrophenia during The Classic Rock Roll Of Honour at The Roundhouse on November 9, 2011 in London, England.
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LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 04: Musician Pete Townsend is shown on a video screen speaking at a press conference to announce the Daltrey/Townsend Teen & Young Adult Cancer Program at UCLA on November 4, 2011 in Los Angeles, California.
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A guitar owned by Pete Townshend and played during The Who's performance at Live Aid at Wembley in 1985 is put on display for the media ahead of a Pop and Rock memorabilia sale at Christie's in London Friday Nov. 11, 2011. The sale estimated between 10,000 and 15,000 pounds (11,600 and...
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