Jazz Articles about Pete Townshend

About Pete Townshend

Album Review

Besides being the last studio album issued prior to drummer Keith Moon's passing in 1978, Who Are You holds the distinction of being the most enervating release in the British quartet's discography, even more so than the previous album, The Who By Numbers (MCA, 1975).Featuring as it does only one outside musician, the late pianist extraordinaire Nicky Hopkins, The Who By Numbers was refreshing and authoritative in its simplicity even as its material, authored in the throes of ...

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Ronnie Wood: Fearless: The Anthology 1965-2025

Read "Fearless: The Anthology 1965-2025" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
October 11, 2025

If the Ronnie Wood anthology Fearless proves anything, it is that the predominant virtues of the peripatetic British musician are largely intangible. Not that the guitarist, songwriter and singer is not talented in those various roles, but that his most salient attributes, at least as depicted here, as those of a convivial individual who invariably contributes to a nurturing atmosphere in a musical setting. Above all, the man known as 'Woody' serves the songs as well as his ...

Album Review

The Who: Live At The Oval 1971

Read "Live At The Oval 1971" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
August 22, 2025

The Who were at the peak of their performing powers by the time they embarked upon an extensive touring schedule in 1971. Having honed their chemistry as a performing unit during the nearly two years of performing Tommy (Decca, 1969), the quartet had relegated equipment smashing to an occasional sidelight. And, having distilled guitarist/composer Pete Townshend's magnum opus Life House into Who's Next (MCA, 1971), the foursome had a panoply of sterling new material to choose from in ...