SXSW Music: Pete Townshend Keynote Address

Hilton Grand Ballroom, Wednesday, March 14, 6:30pm

"...Pete Townshend, legendary guitarist for the equally legendary Who, gave..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature by Michael Bertin

Spiritual Boys

Pete Townshend pays tribute to Ronnie Lane

"...friend Lane, Spiritual Boy: An Appreciation of Ronnie Lane. Pete Townshend got in the act next when his historic..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature by Jody Denberg

Rock & Royalty

The Austin Music Awards were changed forever by a lanky old guy named Pete.

"...more thorough coverage of last night's surprise appearance of Pete Townshend at the Austin Music Awards elsewhere, but GP..."

March 15, 2007 Qmmunity Post by Kate X Messer

Zak Starkey Ignites the Who

Frank Erwin Center career overview transcends

"...respectively) alongside the band’s surviving dyad: Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend. Who factoids – Townshend’s 2007 SXSW Keynote –..."

April 28, 2015 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

The Who live

Live Shot

"...set, the stage emptied and Roger Daltrey fell into Pete Townshend's arms. Daltrey, 58, short, stout, still without an..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Here Comes the Nice

Small Face Ronnie Lane's tenure in Austin is preserved on Live in Austin.

"...the same level of stateside fame as his friends Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton, and Jimmy Page, was no less..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Music Feature by Christopher Gray

The Who Bettered, The Who's Best

Reissuing 30 Years of Maximum R&B

"...thoughtful account of the group's (or should I say Pete Townshend's) mid-life creative crisis which lead to the album's..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Music Feature

More McCanlies, Texas

The full interview with the director of 'Secondhand Lions'

"...by three different studios called Thai Pirates that Billy Peterson was attached to at one point, Michael Douglas was..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Who Are You: The Life of Pete Townshend

"...Who Are You: The Life of Pete Townshendby Mark Ian Wilkerson Omnibus Press, 642 pp., $29.95..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Music Feature by Austin Powell

McCanlies, Texas

Tim McCanlies is known in the movie business as a great script writer with few scripts that have actually hit the big screen. With the Sept. 19 release of Secondhand Lions, long thought to be one of the best unproduced scripts around, that will change.

"...we were going to fly to London to meet Pete Townshend, the executive producer. Of course, we were writing..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Screens Feature by Louis Black

Take That F***er Back: Ronnie Lane/Texas Tornados/Clifford Antone Tributes 2007

"...arrangement of "Itchycoo Park," the big moment arrived when Pete Townshend strode onstage to play "Kuschty Rye." KGSR's Jody..."

March 3, 2017 Features Feature by Greg Beets

TCB

SXSW 07: a lot of carrying on, a massive jolt of energy, then oblivion

"...any band. Or panel, party, or chance encounter with Pete Townshend, Slash, Perry Farrell, Kirsten Dunst, or Amy Winehouse...."

March 23, 2007 Music Column by Christopher Gray

2006-07 Austin Music Awards Show

Austin Convention Center, Wednesday, March 14

"...arrangement of "Itchycoo Park," the big moment arrived when Pete Townshend strode onstage to play "Kuschty Rye." KGSR's Jody..."

March 16, 2007 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Rachel Fuller & 'Special Guests'

SXSW showcase reviews

"...15 If you didn't know that Rachel Fuller was Pete Townshend's main squeeze, you should've gone to South Padre..."

March 16, 2007 Music Review by Michael Bertin

TCB

The ongoing liquor-fueled legend of the Hickoids, Neil Diamond's people make the Diamond Smugglers' life hell, and Pete Townshend will be at SXSW anyway, anyhow, anywhere

"...COMEDY ALBUM: Ron White, You Can't Fix Stupid Pete Speaks After helping fire the SXSW 06 rumor mill..."

Dec. 15, 2006 Music Column by Christopher Gray

Lambert & Stamp

Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp were two would-be filmmakers who wound up managing the Who

"...bit before their time. Eventually singling out beaky guitarist Pete Townshend as the group’s driving force (to the exasperation..."

May 15, 2015 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Who I Am

The Who's heart and soul for 500 pages.

"...Who I Am: A Memoirby Pete Townshend HarperCollins, 544 pp., $32.50..."

Dec. 7, 2012 Music Feature by Michael Toland

After a Fashion: Friday

Your Style Avatar is on the scene at the AMAs!

"...backup with Ian McLagan – and joined by interloper Pete Townshend. Townshend was the undisputed big draw of the..."

March 16, 2007 Features Feature by Stephen MacMillan Moser

Oasis Knebworth 1996

Brilliant documentary on the gigs that defined Britpop

"...potent was Noel's guitar, channeling Duane Eddy, Steve Jones, Peter Green, as well as his oft-stated influences of Ray..."

May 13, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Austin Music Awards Gallery, 1988-2007

"...Ian McLagan and Pete Townshend, 2007..."

Nov. 27, 2019 Photo Gallery

35 Years of the Austin Music Awards

Living in a dream

"...nearly upstaged the native fireworks, when SXSW keynote speaker Pete Townshend joined locally ensconced Small Faces/Faces keyboardist Ian McLagan..."

March 3, 2017 Features Feature by Doug Freeman

The Who's Tommy

Zach's revival of the rock opera takes its cue from Alice in Wonderland, and while vivid, it lacks consistency

"...golden, fringed jacket, is a picture-perfect Vegas edition of Peter Gallagher's character in 1980's The Idolmaker. Since this film..."

Aug. 8, 2014 Arts Review by Stacy Alexander Smith

While My Ukulele Gently Weeps

Get ready to see a lot more ukuleles

"...instrument, and Eddie Vedder's beloved punk godfather, the Who's Pete Townshend, plucked one, too. Tiny Tim made it the..."

Feb. 1, 2013 Music Feature by Luke Winkie

Fantastic Journey

Alejandro Escovedo comes full circle

"...of is the Stones' Sticky Fingers, with lyrics by Pete Townshend, although it's been a very long time since..."

June 20, 2008 Music Feature by Dave Marsh

The Who: My Generation

Reissue

"...years, receiving more money for 1969's Tommy than songwriter/creator Pete Townshend. The legal wrangles lasted until last year. Talmy..."

Oct. 4, 2002 Music Review by Kent H. Benjamin

From Here to Eternity

The only punk rock band that mattered, and why they still do

"...Who's farewell tour. Chimes, in turn, was replaced by Pete Howard within a year...."

May 19, 2000 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

The Who

When the album becomes Immersion

"...Keith Moon's drumming still verges on anarchy. Yet auteur Pete Townshend and the band make up for it with..."

Dec. 9, 2011 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Saturday Picks

"...Banner is to Mississippi rap what Pete Maravich is to the no-look pass, the Jackson native..."

March 14, 2008 Music Feature

Picks & Sleepers

Sxsw

"...PETE KREBS: In his hometown of Portland, Oregon, Krebs is..."

March 20, 1998 Music Feature

This Changes Everything: Austin Witnesses to Sex Pistols' Chaotic Randy's Rodeo Show Go Home and Start Bands

UK instigators blow the roof off San Antonio dance hall in Chapter 4, Part 2, of the “Austin Punk Chronicles”

"...In the mid-Sixties, he was art school roommates with Pete Townshend. He had to go back to his native..."

Jan. 7, 2022 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

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