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Kylie Jenner is giving back to help teens undergoing cancer treatment.

Jimmy McCulloch had ­broken records with a No1 at 15 and he was in Wings – one of the world’s biggest bands. He rubbed shoulders with the likes of Paul McCartney, Pete Townshend, Harry Nilsson and David Cassidy.

The Who have announced that they’re releasing a super deluxe edition box set version of ‘The Who Sell Out’.Due to arrive on April 23 via UMC/Polydor, the seven-disc reissue celebrating the band’s 1967 album will feature 112 tracks in total, including 46 that have never been released.The release will also contains an 80-page colour book full of rare photos, memorabilia, track by track annotation and new liner notes by Pete Townshend, along with replica posters, inserts and newsletters from the

The Who‘s Pete Townshend has said he’s ready to record a new album with the band post-lockdown.The band, who released their last album ‘WHO’ in 2019, this month cancelled their upcoming UK and Ireland tour due to ongoing coronavirus concerns.Speaking to The Mirror, Townshend said he’s been working on new music during the pandemic and “wants to make another” record after lockdown if it makes financial sense.“There’s pages and pages of draft lyrics,” he said, adding: “If the moment comes, I’ll go

The Who have cancelled their UK and Ireland tour that was scheduled for next month.The 10-date jaunt, which was due to kick off in Dublin on March 5 and end in Manchester on March 29, will no longer go ahead due to the ongoing coronavirus crisis.In a statement, The Who’s Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend said: “We are very sorry that we have to cancel our planned March 2021 UK and Ireland shows.“Please excuse the delay but we wanted to wait as long as possible to see if we could indeed play them.

Peter Frampton has revealed that Pete Townshend once asked him to join The Who as his replacement.The ‘Baby, I Love You Way’ singer claimed that, during a creative and financial low point in his career, Townshend contacted him to say that he was leaving The Who – and to offer Frampton his place in the legendary rock band.Speaking to The Guardian on Friday (October 16), Frampton described the offer as “the most bizarre thing I ever heard,” adding: “Three men couldn’t fill his shoes!”Frampton

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LONDON -- When Keiron Marshall was 15, he found his way out of a desperate situation with help from an unexpected source: Eric Clapton. The guitar great was host at the first gig Marshall ever went to, and he was joined on stage by Gary Brooker of Procol Harum, The Who's Pete Townshend and Beatle Ringo Starr.

Vera Lynn, who sadly died today at the age of 103, played an anti-heroin gig at London’s Crystal Palace Bowl with space-rockers and famed psychedelics fans Hawkwind. No, seriously.On August 24, 1985 Hawkwind were top of the bill at a show raising awareness for the Anti-Heroin Campaign, which was founded by The Who’s Pete Townshend.

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Roger Daltrey worries that the coronavirus pandemic will have a devastating effect on a special group of people in need — teens with cancer. The Who frontman, along with bandmate Pete Townshend, started the Teen Cancer America foundation in 2012 to deal with the specific needs of teenage cancer patients.

"We got told by The Who that the noise was outrageous."

Suggs joked that Madness had single-handedly turned Camden in London into “one of the greatest tourist destinations on the planet” as he unveiled a stone on the Music Walk Of Fame in England's capital.

The revolving bill of special guests took turns to cover Fleetwood Mac classics.

The Who will join an all-star group of performers lining up to headline this year's Teenage Cancer Trust benefit shows at London's Royal Albert Hall.

“Long live rock! Be it dead or alive!” The Who’s Pete Townshend wrote in 1971.

Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend haven't exactly been prolific as The Who during the past 37 years -- just two studio albums during that time, and a 13-year gap between the new WHO and its predecessor, Endless Wire. But with WHO charting high on both sides of the pond, Daltrey is not ruling out the possibility of another Who recording project to come.