P ete Townshend , as some of you may remember, is the high-stepping guitarist and songwriter of the Who . This is the third piece he has written for Rolling Stone . (One of the earlier pieces was about the Who , the other about Meher Baba; this one’s about both.) Pete originally proposed the piece late last October, saying he would like to write about “what happened to the Who back in ’75 during the recording of The Who by Numbers , the traumatic events that led to and went on in the studio, my own absurd needless crackup, Keith’s deepening alcoholism and ostracism from the Who, my visit to San Francisco for a Sufi ‘cure,’ my decision to let Roger ‘win’ and the subsequent miraculous growth in the internal relationships of the Who members to one another.” London, April 1977 ▪ It took a bit of courage to start this article, as I have said precisely nothing to the press (other than through lyrics) for close to two years. Today, reading it through, there is much I am …
Continue Reading about Pete Townshend Looks Back: The Punk Meets the Godmother →