Album cover for The Who’s 1973 rock opera, “Quadrophenia,” which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this week. The Who’s “Quadrophenia” — a rock opera composed by guitarist Pete Townshend is turning ...

Bonfire night, 1973. The Who are 50 minutes into their set at Newcastle’s Odeon Cinema, the first gig of a three-night stand. They’re promoting Quadrophenia, the grand new opus written by Pete ...

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases or premieres, or occasionally our own inscrutable whims. This week: The recent (and very strange) Jeannette: The Childhood Of Joan Of ...

The Who's maestro will revive his rock opera with a full orchestra for select concert dates this September Over the last few decades, Pete Townshend's status as a composer has thankfully caught up ...

We say “essentially” because there was a lone “I’ve Had Enough” at the launch of the original Quadrophenia tour on October 28, 1973, at Trentham Gardens in Stoke-on-Trent, England. It’s a show that ...

Phil Daniels, conductor Robert Zeigler, Pete Townshend, Rachel Fuller, Billy Idol and Alfie Boe backstage at the Royal Albert Hall. As a leading icon of the British music revolution of the 1960s, Pete ...

The Who's Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey haven't stayed off the road during the past four-plus years by choice. "We've been trying to find something we can do together. We've struggled to find ...

Judging from reviews of shows from the tour so far, here we are 44 years later, and Daltrey and Townshend are just as energetic at 75 and 74, respectively, as they were four-and-a-half-decades ago.

If “Tommy” is the Who’s great rock opera, its successor, “Quadrophenia,” might more accurately be described as the rock group’s great opera. That perspective is reinforced by “Pete Townshend’s Classic ...

Pete Townshend will perform The Who‘s famous 1973 double album Quadrophenia live with orchestral accompaniment at four concerts around America in September. In addition to Townshend, who wrote all of ...