"Pete Townshend's a god of guitar and always will be," read one of his previous comments. Related: Jelly Roll Joins Limp ...

May credited Townshend with fundamentally shaping the sound of rock guitar, stating, "I can’t imagine Rock Guitar without ...

Even though the whole world puts respect on the names of these two iconic guitarists, The Who's Pete Townshend never really cared for them at all.

I found him very charming, very easy, a very sweet guy.” Pete Townshend wasn’t the only guitar player who found themselves intimidated by the late great Jimi Hendrix. Fellow British guitarist ...

Having hit a turmoil of hard drugs as the 1970s arrived, Eric Clapton was coaxed out of his destructive exile by Pete Townsend for a memorable event.

Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions The man who made his name smashing guitars on stage here argues for the guitar as an instrument of the salon. Pete Townshend sings the praises of the ...

Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions One of the most fascinating interviews across the whole series, here Pete Townshend explains what the attraction of the electric guitar was to the bands of ...

In doing so, he reshaped England's rock and roll hierarchy, which until then had been dominated by players like Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and Pete Townshend As Townshend told Guitar Player ...

"In the lower ground floor of the house, Ronnie Wood commissioned a music studio — in fact, Pete Townshend helped him construct it and design it, so he was involved in that way back then," adds ...

While Mountain’s music was a yin-yang mix of West’s gutbucket blues rock and Pappalardi’s prog-inspired balladry, what was common to all of it was West’s guitar, overdriven and snarling as ...

The Who star Pete Townshend has opened up about the “pain” Parkinson’s disease has caused for those close to him as he threw his support behind an upcoming charity album. British rockers ...