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Pete Townshend: on The Who and Lifehouse

Phil Sutcliffe, Los Angeles Times, 1999

The Who on the road in America again, just 18 years after their farewell tour? "It’s a long story and not a particularly nice one," says Pete Townshend. Because it concerns the financial embarrassment of rock immortals.

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