New solo Pete Townshend collection out now

Pete Townshend has just released a solo career-spanning greatest hits set. The new album, titled The Definitive Collection, features 17 key tracks from Townshend's main studio albums, including such classics as "Pure And Easy," "Let My Love Open The Door," "Rough Boys," "Slit Skirts," "Give Blood," and "A Friend Is A Friend." The cover features a 1978 black and white performance shot of Townshend taken during the Who's The Kids Are Alright movie.

The complete tracklisting for Pete Townshend's The Definitive Collection is:

"Pure And Easy," "Sheraton Gibson," and "Time Is Passing" from 1972's Who Came First.

"Street In The City," "My Baby Gives It Away," and "Misunderstood" from 1977's Rough Mix with Ronnie Lane.

"A Little Is Enough," "Let My Love Open The Door," and "Rough Boys" from 1980's Empty Glass.

"The Sea Refuses No River" and "Slit Skirts" from 1982's All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes.

"Mary," a 1970 Lifehouse demo included on 1983's Scoop.

"Give Blood" and "Face The Face" from 1985's White City - A Novel.

"A Friend Is A Friend" from 1989's The Iron Man - The Musical By Pete Townshend.

"I Am Afraid" and "English Boy" from 1993's Psychoderelict.

Although the Who's current road trek marks the first time that Townshend and Roger Daltrey have toured behind a new album since 1982, Townshend revealed to us that Daltrey almost took part as a guest vocalist on his 1993 Psychoderelict tour: "When Psychoderelict came out Roger called me and said, 'You know, this would've made a great Who record.' And I said, 'Well, yeah, you're always going to say that. It's my record and you know if we'd have been doing it with the Who you probably wouldn't have liked it.' And he said, 'No, this is a part that I could play. If you're ever going to do it as a theater piece, think of me.' So when I took it out on the road, I did call him, but he'd just taken another job. But we would've gone out together with Psychoderelict."

Pete Townshend will next perform on February 20th with his girlfriend Rachel Fuller and other yet-to-be-named guest artists, at Joe's Pub in New York City.

The Who kick off their next series of dates on February 23rd in Reno, Nevada at the Reno Events Center.
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