The Raspberries release their CD Live on Sunset Strip (Deluxe Version) featuring a cover of “I Can’t Explain”. A cover of “Substitute” is also available as a download to purchasers.Listen to “I Can’t Explain” on YouTube here You can watch The Raspberries perform “Substitute” at a show here
The Who: Live in Houston, Texas 1975 is released as a semi-legal DVD in Europe
Si Hayden releases his album Steel Roots featuring a instrumental called “Hats Off to Pete Townshend” You can listen to it here
Pistol Valve, a Japanese all girl brass and rock band, release their debut album “Tsunamic Girls From Tokyo” featuring a cover of “My Generation” You can listen to it on YouTube here
The DVD The Who: Videobiography is released by Classic Rock Legends
The Boy Who Heard Music has its stage debut at the Vassar College and New York Stage & Film’s 23rd annual Powerhouse Theater Season. Author Pete does not attend
Emma Townshend, Pete’s daughter and gardening columnist for the Independent, pens a long remembrance of her childhood with her dad for her newspaper.
Mary Stuart releases her album Compadres
The Who were scheduled to appear on the BBC TV show Later… with Jools Holland
Pete is on his girlfriend Rachel Fuller’s webcast In The Attic where he performs an acoustic rendition of “I Can’t Reach You”