Topic: Pete Townshend

Who Guitarist Pete Townshend Sells Song Catalog to Spirit Music

Bloomberg - 21 days ago
Enlarge image Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images. Peter Townshend, leader of the rock band The Who.. . Pete Townshend, guitarist for the rock band The...

Spirit acquires Pete Townshend catalog

Variety - 23 days ago
New York-based indie publisher Spirit Music has acquired Pete Townshend's interest in his song catalog, which includes many of the Who's hits and ...

The Who legend Pete Townshend sells his song catalog

Vancouver Sun - 23 days ago
Pete Townshend, leader of the rock band The Who, sold his interest in a song catalog including “Won't Get Fooled Again” and “Baba O'Riley” to...

And Now a Brief Musical Interlude

Esquire - 26 days ago
Optional soundtrack to this blog post...) . . The blog doesn't do many commercial endorsements, but this particular set has everything going for...

Graphic Scenes: November 2011

The Afterword - 93 days ago
In this monthly series, Afterword deputy editor David Berry takes a survey of graphic novels and comic arts that have slipped under the radar of...

Wild Flag lets it fly in S.F.

San Francisco Chronicle - 99 days ago
0 . Choice examples of male pattern baldness radically outnumbered the beards at all-lady indie-rock supergroup Wild Flag's second show Saturday at...

Apple's a 'Digital Vampire': Pete Townshend

The Street - 109 days ago
The Who guitarist Pete Townshend has described Apple's(AAPL) iTunes as a "digital vampire" that "bleeds" new artists instead of helping them build...

Pete Townshend says 2012 memoir a "rite of passage"

Reuters US Online Report Entertainment News - 276 days ago
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A long-awaited memoir by British rock guitarist and the Who songwriter Pete Townshend will be finished and published by next year, book publisher Harper Collins said on Tuesday.The 65-year-old musician, idolized since rising to prominence with The Who ...

Japan bassist Karn dies of cancer

AFP Global Edition - 408 days ago
Mick Karn, the bass player and founder member of British art rock band Japan, has died after succumbing to cancer, his website said Wednesday. He was 52.He died peacefully at his west London home on Tuesday, surrounded by family and friends ...

Leading figures urge freedom for Iran stoning woman

AFP Global Edition - 432 days ago
More than 80 leading figures signed a letter Monday urging Iran to free Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the woman sentenced to death by stoning in a case that has attracted global attention.The signatories said she had "suffered enough".The letter to The ...