Legendary guitarist and songwriter Pete Townshend has hinted at the possibility of The Who making a new album as they near the end of their careers. Townshend, 79, said in a recent interview with The Daily Beast that he hoped he and lead singer Roger Daltrey, who turned 80 this year, could find some common ground and work together again, preferably without an orchestra. With the decline in the number of surviving members of the classic Who line-up, Townshend and Daltrey are the only two currently active in the band.
Although Townshend didn’t appear too keen on “bullying” Daltrey into making an album, he did say that he was encouraged by Daltrey’s recent solo tour and hoped they would be able to put a small band together. However, he admitted that they did not converse much, which might make it “difficult to land on something that we both share an interest in”.
In the interview, Townshend spoke of their end-of-career tour, the last tours they would undertake as a band. He compared their present situation with that of Bob Dylan, who is still touring well into his 70s. Although he managed to avoid bullying Daltrey into doing what he wants, Townshend said that he did not want to be in the same position as he used to have around the time of “Quadrophenia.”
This isn’t the first time Townshend has discussed the possibility of new Who music or live dates. In a previous interview with NME, he expressed his optimism for future performances and said that there would be more Who shows in the future, and jokingly added: “The story of the end of The Who is gonna be when either Roger or I drop dead or can’t function anymore on the stage.”
Daltrey, on the other hand, revealed in a previous interview with NME that it was unlikely that they would release any new music, citing a lack of interest in new music from fans. However, with Townshend’s recent enthusiasm, there may yet be a chance that new music from the legendary band will be released
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