It works for me in input mode in other words it helps me focus and generate fresh approaches to old ideas. What is it about pop music that you think provides such fertile ground for long-form storytelling? The new album shows that you're still committed to the idea that pop songs can be used to tell a complex narrative tale. He was arrested for making a single access to a child porn site, which he claimed was for research for a book he was working on, and police later dropped all charges against him.) In his e-mail response to Salon, he wrote about his commitment to using pop songs as a vehicle for his larger ideas, how the Who fit into the current pop culture landscape and whether, in the light of his own troubles, the Mark Foley scandal had any effect on his thinking about the merits of online communication. (Last month, he walked out of a planned radio interview with Howard Stern after Stern's sidekicks began joking about his 2003 arrest for child pornography. Half devoted to thunderous rock songs and quieter, emotionally astute numbers and half given over to a dystopian "mini-opera" called "Wire & Glass," the album shows Townshend and lead singer Roger Daltrey working with a vigor and vitality that won't disappoint longtime fans, despite the absence of longtime bassist John Entwistle - who died in 2002 - and long-deceased drummer Keith Moon.Ĭurrently on tour with the band, Townshend, 61, is giving only e-mail interviews. 31, is the first album of all-new material to bear the Who's imprimatur in almost a quarter-century. As the main songwriter, guitarist and all-around driving force behind legendary rock band the Who, Townshend has contributed as much as anyone to the development of rock 'n' roll, from long-form narrative works like "Tommy" and "Quadrophenia" to three-minute bursts of adolescent angst like "My Generation." Power chords, rock opera, guitar smashing: Pete Townshend is the man to thank for all of them.
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