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Legendary guitarist and songwriter Pete Townshend celebrated the kickoff of his latest project, Quadrophenia: A Rock Ballet, in New York City during his exclusive iHeartRadio ICONS event. Hosted by ...

Actor Ansel Elgort (Baby Driver, West Side Story) will make his professional dance debut in Pete Townshend’s Quadrophenia, A Rock Ballet at New York City Center next month. Directed by Rob Ashford ...

Pete Townshend has long been one of the best songwriters in rock music. He is a pretty good guitarist, too, of course, but he and his band made their bones on the backs of Townshend's often brilliant ...

By age 11, Pete Townshend wrote his first song, “Bubbles,” co-written with his friend Graham Beard. Soon after, Townshend’s grandmother, Emma, gifted him with his first guitar for Christmas, and he ...

In 1971, The Who released an iconic track that would come to define the British rock band’s legacy and the younger generation as a whole—although songwriter Pete Townshend never intended the latter.