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Pete Townshend Unveils New Rock Opera

By Lexi Feinberg: 2007-07-14 20:12:09
Pete Townshend Unveils New Rock Opera Earlier this week, we ran a debate over who is better between the Who and Led Zeppelin. Fans from both camps came out of the woodwork to chime in on why their fave was easily the clear winner.

Keeping in tune with this classic rock flashback, Billboard has announced that the Who’s Pete Townshend has penned a new rock opera. At age 62, we still ain’t seen nothing yet from this guitar god.

Townshend originally created the rock opera as an Internet novella, but “The Boy Who Heard Music” has taken on a life of its own. He wrote the book, lyrics and music for this exciting new venture, which shouldn’t come as too big of a shock considering he whipped up more than 100 songs for the band in its heyday.

The two-hour rock opera is described as "a hallucinatory tale about the rise and fall of a band made up of three teenagers from different ethnic backgrounds as seen through the eyes of an aging rock star."

“The Boy” premiered in a test run this weekend at the New York Stage and Films' 23rd Powerhouse Theater festival. If it went over well, expect it to appear in your zip code quicker than you can spell "quadrophenia."





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