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The Who guitarist Pete Townshend has revealed Sex Pistols frontman Johnny Rotten was his number one choice for the cult film Quadrophenia.

Townshend was speaking to Music-News after an acoustic performance at the Royal Albert Hall, and said the plans to cast Johnny may have fallen through after a night’s drinking with the director.

The Who guitarist and chief songwriter Pete Townshend has said he believes ‘Quadrophenia‘ is ‘the last definitive Who album’, and along with 1969′s ‘Tommy‘ and 1971′s ‘Who’s Next‘, is one of only three albums the band recorded which he describes as ‘landmark’.

MusicRadar quotes Townshend at yesterday’s media launch of the reissue of ‘Quadrophenia’, during which he gave a frank assessment of The Who’s recording career.

The Who‘s Roger Daltrey will headline this year’s Bluesfest in Australia, with The Pogues and My Morning Jacket also booked to perform, reports the Daily Telegraph.

According to the paper. Daltrey will perform The Who’s legendary rock opera ‘Tommy‘ at the festival, with the blessing of his sole surviving bandmate Pete Townshend, who is also due to restart his own touring commitments sometime next year.

Liam Gallagher‘s successful clothing range Pretty Green will join forces with The Who to celebrate the imminent reissue of Quadrophenia – The Director’s Cut.

With its inspiration largely taken from the mod culture and fashion of the 60s, a youth movement immortalised in the ‘Quadrophenia‘ album and film, the collaboration is undoubtedly a natural one, and Pretty Green have announced their new, limited edition design of the famous ‘Jimmy’ parka, which features on the 1973 album’s sleeve.

The Who guitarist Pete Townshend will be the speaker at the first ever John Peel Lecture later this month, reports the BBC.

It is hoped the event, to be held this year in Salford, will become an annual occurrence with a different high profile speaker each time. For 2011, Pete Townshend will address the Radio Festival with the subject Can John Peelism survive the internet?.

The Who legend Roger Daltrey has expressed his disappointment at what he considers to be a dirth of geniune frontmen and women in today’s music scene, reports Yahoo.

Pete Townshend has revealed he will re-join fellow surviving Who member Roger Daltrey on the road next year to perform their classic 1973 album ‘Quadrophenia‘.

Questions had been raised as to whether Townshend would ever play live again when Roger Daltrey voiced his concerns regarding Townshend’s well documented problems with tinnitus when announcing his plans to tour ‘Tommy‘ as a solo venture.

Who frontman Roger Daltrey has said the current widespread television coverage of festivals in the UK is doing a ‘disservice’ to music.

At the moment, Glastonbury leads the way with TV exposure, thanks to the BBC’s blanket coverage of the festival across its networks, while T In The Park, Reading/Leeds, Isle Of Wight, Latitude and others all have outlets covering their events over the course of the summer.

The Who‘s legendary frontman Roger Daltrey has revealed the rigours of decades of touring has left him ‘seriously ill’ and ‘almost hospitalised’ in the past.

The Who frontman Roger Daltrey has been forced to pull a selection of his planned UK tour dates due to a lack of demand.