The best WHO album for Pete Townshend is …

It is undoubted that the Whoho are one of the most important groups of what is now called classic rock. Indeed, in his 60 -year career the English band has not released many albums, a dozen in everything: from “My Generation” (read the review here) in 1965 up to “Who” (read the review here) Released in 2019. It is not easy to say what their best record is, a matter of taste. In the 90s Pete Towshend He revealed what his favorite was, in his opinion the best.

In 1996 Pete Townshend Speaking of the band discography he said that

“Quadrophenia” (Read the review here), released in 1973, was the best album they had ever made until then. Here’s what he said to “Quadrophenia”: “I think it is the best album that the Who ever made. But I also think it is one of the cohesive stories that I have ever written. And in doing this kind of thing, I learn a lot.”

In a conversation with Iconic in 2011, Pete said that was the album that was most proud of and also explained why. “I think it was the best fusion of a type of chaotic work that took place inside and around the Who. As a young man I always thought I had two roles. One was to write for this band called The Who, of which I was a member Very difficult. A little the wall. ”

The English guitarist still tells: “Our management was going to pieces. A kind of anarchy had taken over in the band. A anarchy of ego. So it’s a bit because I pulled it out of a tool, for this reason I am Contento. Songs I wrote. ”

In 1979 a film based on the album directed by the director came out
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Sting
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. The
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will be in
Concert in Italy next summer on 20 and 22 July
respectively in Padua and Milan.