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Topic: "Wire & Glass" - The Who to release 11-minute single next month! (NSC) Return to archive Page: 1 2
4th June 2006 05:54 PM
Gazza Who release first single in 23 years (rock on, Tommy)

Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey tell 'IoS' about the 11-minute rock opera that will be basis of new musical
By Anthony Barnes, Arts and Media Correspondent
Published: 04 June 2006


Since The Who last troubled the top 40, the musical landscape has been reshaped by hip-hop, dance music and grunge. But now the band is set to return virtually untouched by the vagaries of fashion - by releasing an 11-minute rock opera as its first single for a quarter of a century.

At such a length, the track "Wire & Glass" will be one of the longest singles ever to make the charts - but its colossal duration means it will struggle to get airplay on mainstream radio.

Guitarist Pete Townshend has insisted the track should be issued complete and unedited when it is released next month as a taster for the band's first new album since 1982. "This new release is the first truly creative piece from The Who for nearly 25 years," he said.

It will dwarf other epic releases such as the once ground-breaking Bob Dylan song "Like a Rolling Stone", which, at six minutes, was almost twice as long as most other pop hits of the mid-1960s, and "Bohemian Rhapsody", which was a mere five minutes and 55 seconds long. Townshend is now in talks to adapt the story as a stage musical and animation.

The single, which tells the story of a teenage band that finds global fame through the internet, is a condensed version of a half-hour rock opera - also called Wire & Glass - which will form the centrepiece of the band's new album, to be released on the Polydor label in October.

The band has not had the easiest of rides over the past few years. Bass player John Entwistle died in a Las Vegas hotel in 2002, and the following year Townshend was cautioned after he admitted accessing child pornography while researching a book.

Townshend's mini-opera grew out of a novel he wrote called The Boy Who Heard Music, which he published on his website. Needing inspiration for new material for a Who tour this summer, Townshend hit upon the idea of using the tale as the basis for his new songs.

"I was able to quickly scratch out a lyrical synopsis. This comprised seven or eight short lyric poems," he said. "I took into account none of the depth, background or complexity of the story. In a way, I deliberately skipped over what I had explored and elaborated in my 'novella', and just grabbed at whatever came into my mind as I sat with pen and paper. Quickly I found I had enough coherent lyrics to comprise a short song-cycle or 'mini-opera'. I had about 30 minutes of music that would create a vigorous backbone for the Who album, but allow me to continue to draw on the blood-line of The Boy Who Heard Music."

Townshend has previously written full-length rock operas with Tommy and Quadrophenia, which were both turned into hit films. The musician, who will premičre new material during the band's summer tour, said that despite returning to the rock opera format, the material sounded modern. "It's an exciting sound to my ears. Not old-fashioned at all."

The band - once listed as the loudest act in the world after an eardrum-splitting 1976 show - has not released an album since It's Hard, and the last single, "Athena", limped into the charts at number 40 the same year, 1982. The Who officially split the following year, but re-formed for Live Aid two years later and have continued to tour on a regular basis ever since.

Radio 2's head of music, Colin Martin, said: "An 11-minute track is unlikely to be playlisted, but it could be fitted into a more specialist programme. In the past record companies have supplied radio edits, for example 'Layla' by Derek and the Dominos, so we may play an edited version."

The longest song ever to make the charts without a truncated version was "All Around the World" by Oasis, which ran to nine minutes and 38 seconds. The Orb's top 10 hit "The Blue Room" was the longest ever single at 39 minutes and 58 seconds, although it was also sold in a shorter form.

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/news/article624671.ece
4th June 2006 06:03 PM
Lethargy With Pete it's been all talk and no action for decades. Truly lame. If the new songs don't suck, great! But either way, he's been promoting the "new stuff" for ten years now. Almost as pathetic as the Chinese Democracy stuff by Axl.
4th June 2006 09:38 PM
Soldatti I hope it's better than the new songs of the latest compilation.
5th June 2006 04:43 AM
Ronnie Richards This is excellent news!
(Hopefully..)
5th June 2006 08:19 AM
corgi37 11 minutes? Pfft - Neil Young regularly has 15 minute songs. Anyway, hopefully this is ok.
5th June 2006 09:44 AM
Joey

I am now so excited that I am typing this with me nipples .
5th June 2006 10:07 AM
Maxlugar The new 11 minute Who opus has been focus group tested and ready for mass release!
5th June 2006 10:11 AM
Joey " The new 11 minute Who opus has been focus group tested and ready for mass release!"

It really is over isn't it ?!?!

Your material has become drier that Phyllis Diller's cha CHA !!!!! :

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5th June 2006 10:24 AM
Maxlugar Meep!
5th June 2006 10:31 AM
Joey
quote:
Maxlugar wrote:
Meep!




The silence following one of your postings throughout the first 1/2 of 2006 has been quite long ..... and to be brutally honest .... quite uncomfortable .

Even the crickets have found better things to do :


5th June 2006 10:38 AM
Some Guy looks like joey pulled up lame
5th June 2006 10:45 AM
gimmekeef
quote:
Some Guy wrote:
looks like joey pulled up lame



Hopefully the vet can save him!
5th June 2006 10:48 AM
Maxlugar [quote]Some Guy wrote:
looks like joey pulled up lame


He can only throw my own stuff back at me. It's as lame as you get on a message board.

Well, besides giving out an address and telling people to meet you there for a fight. Tee hee!!! THAT was good!
5th June 2006 11:42 AM
Joey " He can only throw my own stuff back at me. It's as lame as you get on a message board.

Well, besides giving out an address and telling people to meet you there for a fight. Tee hee!!! THAT was good! "


***** ? *******

You make Joey say , " Huh ?!?! "


***** WTF ?!?! *****


Why ?!?! ... WHY ?!?! ... When all the Joey does .... is Love .


Joeykins !
5th June 2006 11:49 AM
Some Guy where is the jb in our thoughts thread?
5th June 2006 11:59 AM
Joey
quote:
Some Guy wrote:
where is the jb in our thoughts thread?



I would like to nuzzle you .
5th June 2006 12:01 PM
Some Guy I'm concerned
5th June 2006 12:02 PM
gimmekeef
quote:
Some Guy wrote:
where is the jb in our thoughts thread?



Last I heard jb was in hospital...gettin his ass looked at.It was overly chapped from having it kissed by some here!
5th June 2006 12:06 PM
Some Guy
quote:
gimmekeef wrote:


Last I heard jb was in hospital...gettin his ass looked at.It was overly chapped from having it kissed by some here!

is VoodooPug "available" today?
5th June 2006 12:17 PM
Maxlugar [quote]Joey wrote:
Well, besides giving out an address and telling people to meet you there for a fight. Tee hee!!! THAT was good! "


***** ? *******

You make Joey say , " Huh ?!?! "




Oh not you silly! You're a freak but not that kind of freak. That was Lotsajizz/Sean/Summer Romance.

Your pal,

Maxy.
5th June 2006 12:40 PM
Jumping Jack My sources tell me that Pete is still the world's greatest living guitarist and many here will be humiliated by the new material and any comparisons with a no-talent like Axl.

Joey will have to seek medical assistance due to his week long period of excitment with this new material!!!

Word!
5th June 2006 12:59 PM
gimmekeef When this new maxi single arrives...lets hope we dont get..Omaha'd
5th June 2006 01:26 PM
Some Guy will it air on lite FM stations?
5th June 2006 01:39 PM
Joey
quote:
Jumping Jack wrote:
My sources tell me that Pete is still the world's greatest living guitarist and many here will be humiliated by the new material and any comparisons with a no-talent like Axl.

Joey will have to seek medical assistance due to his week long period of excitment with this new material!!!

Word!



Jumping Jack ..................

Seriously , I can not WAIT for all the new material ( see : The MaxLugar ) .

Excitable Joe
5th June 2006 02:12 PM
Maxlugar Cross-species Who tests have not gone well...

The 11 minute Who Opus is a bust.




[Edited by Maxlugar]
5th June 2006 02:13 PM
Joey
quote:
Maxlugar wrote:
Cross-species Who tests have not gone well...

The 11 minute Who Opus is a bust.




You shall NOT be greeted this fall


5th June 2006 02:16 PM
Joey
quote:



Jumping Jack wrote:
My sources tell me that Pete is still the world's greatest living guitarist






Oh , HELL yes !!!! ..... Eric Clapton is such a lovely player but THE PETEY performs with passion and fire ( see : Jimi Hendrix ) and to see / hear Pete play guitar these days is worth the three hundred dollar ticket price alone . Word !




5th June 2006 02:25 PM
Maxlugar Pete Townsend is a wonderful guitar player.

5th June 2006 02:26 PM
gimmekeef Will it get any airplay at that length?...even satellite would find it long I think....
5th June 2006 02:27 PM
Joey
quote:
Maxlugar wrote:
Pete Townsend ( incredible sic ) is a wonderful guitar player.





You are much loved by Joey
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