Pete Townshend

From the voice of a generation: The most highly anticipated autobiography of the year, and the story of a man who ... is a Londoner and a Mod ... wanted The Who to be called The Hair ... loved The Everly Brothers, but not that "drawling dope" Elvis ... wanted to be a sculptor, a journalist, a dancer and a graphic designer ... became a musician, composer, librettist, fiction writer, literary editor, sailor ... smashed his first guitar onstage, in 1964,...

In his debut novel, rock legend Pete Townshend explores the anxiety of modern life and madness in a story that stretches across two generations of a London family, their lovers, collaborators, and friends. A former rock star disappears on the Cumberland moors. When his wife finds him, she discovers he has become a hermit and a painter of apocalyptic visions. An art dealer has drug-induced visions of demonic faces swirling in a bedstead and soon his...

Aspiring filmmakers Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert set out to find a subject for their underground movie, one that will reflect the way it feels to be young and dissatisfied in postwar London. This unlikely partnership of two men from vastly different backgrounds was inspired by the burgeoning youth culture of the early 1960s. Lambert and Stamp searched for months and finally found in a band called the The Who a rebellious restlessness that was just...

A classic rock opera about a boy who is traumatized by the death of his father. He is "cured" several years later, only to be hailed as a "Messiah."