Pete Townshend is telling his story again — 10 years after his 2012 memoir, Who I Am.
In Somebody Saved Me on Audible Originals’ Words + Music, Townshend talks about the time between the deaths of The Who‘s drummer Keith Moon in 1978 and the band’s bassist John Entwistle in 2002. Here is Pete Townshend on Somebody Saved Me Words
“This a time when The Who was at it’s most popular and when The Who broke up. A time when I made solo records and worked on projects of all kinds outside rock and roll. It was a time The Who suffered great loss and then came together again. You could say that in this Words and Music project I’m gonna focus on my middle ages. (laughs)
Commenting further, Townshend tells Billboard, “I loved this format, because it enabled me to approach the songs and the music that I was writing in that five-year period [1978 through 1982] what was going on in the music…”
He adds, “It was really pleasant for me to [look] at music from that period. I never really looked properly at the demise of The Who, the slowing down of The Who [in the early 1980s], the death of Keith Moon, the tragedy in Cincinnati [where 11 fans died in a stampede in December 1979] and the trouble with not having hit albums…”
Townshend’s Audible Original Words + Music – Somebody Saved Me will be begin streaming for free on Audible beginning May 6th.
The Who performed at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival on Saturday, and afterwards Townshend went into the French Quarter and stopped in at Preservation Hall where he sat in with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band.
