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Pete Townshend On Creativity, 'The Age Of Anxiety' And The Who's New Record

Pete Townshend originally wrote the songs on The Who's new album for Roger Daltrey as a solo artist. "I wrote them for Roger because I knew that Roger would sing them best," he says. William Snyder/Courtesy of the aritst hide caption

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Pete Townshend On Creativity, 'The Age Of Anxiety' And The Who's New Record

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Townshend talks about his debut novel, how it relates to The Who's rock opera, Tommy, and what he'd say now to his younger self – the one who wrote the lyric "I hope I die before I get old."

Pete Townshend On World Cafe

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