THE AGE OF ANXIETY

The Age of Anxiety is a great rock novel, but that is one of the less important things about it. The narrator is a brilliant creation – cultured, witty and unreliable. The novel captures the craziness of the music business and displays Pete Townshend’s sly sense of humour and sharp ear for dialogue. First conceived as an opera, The Age of Anxiety deals with mythic and operatic themes including a maze, divine madness and long-lost children. Hallucinations and soundscapes haunt this novel, which on one level is an extended meditation on manic genius and the dark art of creativity.

Pete Townshend has this to say about the novel:

Ten years ago I decided to create a magnum opus that would combine opera, art installation and novel. Suddenly here I am with a completed novel ready to publish. I am an avid reader and have really enjoyed writing it. I am also happy to say the majority of the music is composed, ready to be polished up for release and performance. It’s tremendously exciting.

This novel was written to provide the base for a solid libretto for an opera-art-installation I regard as perhaps my last major solo work. I started it in 2008, and some close fans are correct in thinking it grew out of other abandoned projects like THE BOY WHO HEARD MUSIC, and for a while was called FLOSS. I changed the title because the gravity of the subject seemed ill-served by a title (the name of the heroine) that for Americans in particular evoked dental floss. The libretto is complete. The music is composed. The video artists and installation artists are in position. I’m hoping 2021 and 2022 will see me get to realize this project at last.

My publisher is flagging this as a ‘rock novel’. The author is a rock musician, and there are some characters who are in bands, but it is also a mystery story, and a story about drug abuse, being a parent, creativity, anxiety, being blocked as an artist, and the psychic miracles worked by certain women in the story. Believe it or not (and I doubt you will) this is not autobiographical. I’ve done that. But the story is set very much in my world. My work, my neighborhood, and is inspired by my people.

FACE THE FACE: 1986 DEEP END CONCERT ON DVD/CD

Eagle Rock Entertainment presents the live concert film Face The Face by Pete Townshend's Deep End as a DVD+CD set. This is the show's first official release of the show on either DVD or CD format. Face The Face features Pink Floyd's David Gilmour on lead guitar throughout and the set includes 'Face The Face', 'Secondhand Love', 'Rough Boys', 'Slit Skirts', 'Give Blood', 'Won't Get Fooled Again', 'Behind Blue Eyes', 'Pinball Wizard' and more.

This show was filmed for the famous German TV series Rockpalast at MIDEM in Cannes on 29th January 1986. Pete Townshend's Deep End were touring in support of Townshend's solo concept album White City: A Novel. Several of the musicians that appeared on the album were featured in the line-up of the Deep End including Pink Floyd's David Gilmour on lead guitar. The set list has tracks from the White City album, other Pete Townshend solo tracks, Who classics, David Gilmour's song 'Blue Light' and a couple of surprises.

Face The Face is a fascinating and compelling release. Pete Townshend and the band deliver an outstanding performance that showcases him as a solo artist as distinct from his work with The Who.

WHO I AM: AUTOBIOGRAPHY

One of rock music's most intelligent and literary performers, Pete Townshend—guitarist, songwriter, editor—tells his closest-held stories about the origins of the preeminent twentieth-century band The Who, his own career as an artist and performer, and his restless life in and out of the public eye in this candid autobiography, Who I Am.

With eloquence, fierce intelligence, and brutal honesty, Pete Townshend has written a deeply personal book that also stands as a primary source for popular music's greatest epoch. Readers will be confronted by a man laying bare who he is, an artist who has asked for nearly sixty years: Who are you?

LIMITED EDITION COLOURED VINYL RELEASES

Pete Townshend has released his first four solo albums on limited edition heavyweight 180 gram coloured vinyl. Each album has been remastered at half-speed at Abbey Road Studios in London.

Who Came First

White Vinyl LP

Rough Mix

Red Vinyl LP

Empty Glass

Clear Vinyl LP

All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes

Gold Vinyl LP

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