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Pete Townshend found the last Who tour "tough" because Roger Daltrey insisted on having "complete control".
The guitarist admits it was frustrating to be left out of decision making, particularly as he didn't agree with everything his bandmate did, but conceded the "sergeant major" singer's ideas made the shows successful.
He said: "When we did the last tour, I said I would do it if it was 'Quadrophenia'.
"Roger said he would do it on two conditions, I had to give him complete control creatively and complete control of the band. I thought, 'F**k, but I may as well give it a try.'
"It was a bit tough for me, I lost a few players I really liked and Roger was a bit of a sergeant major sometimes, but the reviews were spectacular."
In 1969, Pete penned rock opera 'Tommy' and admits he did so because he felt it was the only thing he could do to make the band "survive".
He explained to Q magazine: "I wrote 'Tommy' because I thought The Who were f**ked.
"We had descended into comedy singles, Keith Moon was dressing up as Hitler and getting on the front page of the Daily Mirror, Roger had the long hair...
"So I decided to write this dangerous piece for a rock band - an extended, kinda pretentious, kinda audacious attempt to change the rock form. I thought it was the only way we could survive."
Pete Townshend found The Who tour ‘tough’
Pete Townshend found the last Who tour "tough" because Roger Daltrey insisted on having "complete control".
The guitarist admits it was frustrating to be left out of decision making, particularly as he didn't agree with everything his bandmate did, but conceded the "sergeant major" singer's ideas made the shows successful.
He said: "When we did the last tour, I said I would do it if it was 'Quadrophenia'.
"Roger said he would do it on two conditions, I had to give him complete control creatively and complete control of the band. I thought, 'F**k, but I may as well give it a try.'
"It was a bit tough for me, I lost a few players I really liked and Roger was a bit of a sergeant major sometimes, but the reviews were spectacular."
In 1969, Pete penned rock opera 'Tommy' and admits he did so because he felt it was the only thing he could do to make the band "survive".
He explained to Q magazine: "I wrote 'Tommy' because I thought The Who were f**ked.
"We had descended into comedy singles, Keith Moon was dressing up as Hitler and getting on the front page of the Daily Mirror, Roger had the long hair...
"So I decided to write this dangerous piece for a rock band - an extended, kinda pretentious, kinda audacious attempt to change the rock form. I thought it was the only way we could survive."
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Sir Mick Jagger gets "jealous" when Keith Richards works with other people.
The Rolling Stones guitarist believes part of the reason the group toured again in 2013 was after his bandmate learned he was recording a solo album.
Keith said: "I started [the record] when we were in hibernation, in 2007-8, so there's been no time pressure.
"All that's important is when it comes out, it comes out right.
"I have a feeling that when Mick found out about it, he said, 'Let's get the Stones working again.'
"He doesn't particularly like to work with me all the time, but he doesn't want me to work with anyone else, either. He's a bit jealous in that way."
While Keith admits he felt "disloyal" working on 'Crosseyed Heart', his third solo LP, and the rest of the band thought he was "crazy", he enjoyed the experience of recording alone.
He told MOJO magazine: "It's funny because there's one part of you saying, 'You're being disloyal.'
"Then you get all the other Stones thinking, 'You're crazy, why do you need to go out and do that?'
"And I didn't really need to do it, I just enjoyed doing it.
"It's an interesting way to work, just me and Steve [Jordan], which makes it fairly cheap. There's none of the logistics involved in getting a whole band together, and after a while it started to fall into a nice groove."
Sir Mick Jagger ‘jealous’ of Keith Richards collaborators
Sir Mick Jagger gets "jealous" when Keith Richards works with other people.
The Rolling Stones guitarist believes part of the reason the group toured again in 2013 was after his bandmate learned he was recording a solo album.
Keith said: "I started [the record] when we were in hibernation, in 2007-8, so there's been no time pressure.
"All that's important is when it comes out, it comes out right.
"I have a feeling that when Mick found out about it, he said, 'Let's get the Stones working again.'
"He doesn't particularly like to work with me all the time, but he doesn't want me to work with anyone else, either. He's a bit jealous in that way."
While Keith admits he felt "disloyal" working on 'Crosseyed Heart', his third solo LP, and the rest of the band thought he was "crazy", he enjoyed the experience of recording alone.
He told MOJO magazine: "It's funny because there's one part of you saying, 'You're being disloyal.'
"Then you get all the other Stones thinking, 'You're crazy, why do you need to go out and do that?'
"And I didn't really need to do it, I just enjoyed doing it.
"It's an interesting way to work, just me and Steve [Jordan], which makes it fairly cheap. There's none of the logistics involved in getting a whole band together, and after a while it started to fall into a nice groove."
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Dave Grohl wants his daughters to form a band.
The Foo Fighters rocker can't wait until his kids Violet, nine, Harper, six, and one-year-old Ophelia - who he has with wife Jordyn Blum - are old enough to "jam" with him, though he doesn't expect they will be as keen.
He said: "You know who I look forward to jamming with the most? My kids. I can only hope I have my own little Haim to jam with someday.
"Though I'm probably the last person they'd want to be their drummer."
Foo Fighters were recently forced to pull out of headlining Glastonbury after Dave broke his leg, but he dismissed reports they have already signed up to perform at next year's event as "bulls**t".
He told Q magazine: "I sent one email to Emily [Eavis] and her husband, apologising for missing the event and she invited me to come back some day, even just to camp out and watch the show for the weekend.
"I read all of those articles saying we confirmed for next year and just laughed.
"Total f***ing bulls**t. Of course, I'd love to come back and play Glastonbury but don't believe everything you read."
Dave Grohl wants daughters to form band
Dave Grohl wants his daughters to form a band.
The Foo Fighters rocker can't wait until his kids Violet, nine, Harper, six, and one-year-old Ophelia - who he has with wife Jordyn Blum - are old enough to "jam" with him, though he doesn't expect they will be as keen.
He said: "You know who I look forward to jamming with the most? My kids. I can only hope I have my own little Haim to jam with someday.
"Though I'm probably the last person they'd want to be their drummer."
Foo Fighters were recently forced to pull out of headlining Glastonbury after Dave broke his leg, but he dismissed reports they have already signed up to perform at next year's event as "bulls**t".
He told Q magazine: "I sent one email to Emily [Eavis] and her husband, apologising for missing the event and she invited me to come back some day, even just to camp out and watch the show for the weekend.
"I read all of those articles saying we confirmed for next year and just laughed.
"Total f***ing bulls**t. Of course, I'd love to come back and play Glastonbury but don't believe everything you read."
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McBusted are hoping to get a slot on One Direction's forthcoming album.
The six piece super-group revealed they have penned a tune for the as-yet untitled record because they have previously spent time writing in the studio with Niall Horan and really enjoyed jamming with the young musician.
Danny Jones, 29, told We Love Pop magazine: "I like writing with Niall. We've done stuff with him before and he really liked it. We did submit a song for the new One Direction album, fingers crossed they like it."
In May, Niall revealed the album - which will include their brand new track 'Drag Me Down' - is actually finished and revealed they are going for a more "chilled" sound.
He said: "The songs have been coming out a bit more chilled. We want this to be quite a long-lasting album that you can listen to anytime, like Ed's (Sheeran) album."
Meanwhile the McBusted lads supported their chart topping pals on tour earlier this year and admitted they enjoyed getting a taste of the perks which come with being the most popular band in the world.
Tom Fletcher said: "We've been more diva-ish on this tour. It's the first time in 12 years we've asked for our dressing room to be a certain way. We saw 1D's and thought 'We want that'."
Harry Judd added: "It's worth it. Our dressing room is epic this tour. There's dark drapes up the wall, a couple of plants and a coffee machine."
McBusted want to feature on One Direction’s LP
McBusted are hoping to get a slot on One Direction's forthcoming album.
The six piece super-group revealed they have penned a tune for the as-yet untitled record because they have previously spent time writing in the studio with Niall Horan and really enjoyed jamming with the young musician.
Danny Jones, 29, told We Love Pop magazine: "I like writing with Niall. We've done stuff with him before and he really liked it. We did submit a song for the new One Direction album, fingers crossed they like it."
In May, Niall revealed the album - which will include their brand new track 'Drag Me Down' - is actually finished and revealed they are going for a more "chilled" sound.
He said: "The songs have been coming out a bit more chilled. We want this to be quite a long-lasting album that you can listen to anytime, like Ed's (Sheeran) album."
Meanwhile the McBusted lads supported their chart topping pals on tour earlier this year and admitted they enjoyed getting a taste of the perks which come with being the most popular band in the world.
Tom Fletcher said: "We've been more diva-ish on this tour. It's the first time in 12 years we've asked for our dressing room to be a certain way. We saw 1D's and thought 'We want that'."
Harry Judd added: "It's worth it. Our dressing room is epic this tour. There's dark drapes up the wall, a couple of plants and a coffee machine."
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Blur's Graham Coxon thinks Kanye West is an "idiot".
The guitarist has blasted the 'All Day' rapper and even questioned whether he writes the music which has featured on his six studio records.
Asked what he thinks about the musician, he raged: "He's a f**king idiot, isn't he? Does he even make his own albums?"
The 46-year-old musician continued to attack the controversial star - who has two-year-old daughter North with his wife, Kim Kardashian West - by insisting "there's no shape" to his music and rubbishing his lyric-writing ability as "idiotic".
He said: "People aren't interested in learning instruments and putting effort and time into it. They want it immediately. It's McDonald's, isn't it? It's convenient.
"But all I hear is a loop starting, some bloke starts to sing or rap, and the loop finishes. There's no shape to this stuff. And the lyrics just seem to be idiotic."
And after laying into the star, the rocker slammed the wider music industry by insisting all modern music is "boring".
He ranted to The Guardian newspaper: "Really, the whole music business is s**t, isn't it?
"We need more groups that have a bit more passion or sexiness or politics or something going for them.
"Instead, it just seems like a splurge of s**t all over the internet. And it's just so boring - people in too much make-up with session musicians."
Blur’s Graham Coxon: Kanye is an idiot
Blur's Graham Coxon thinks Kanye West is an "idiot".
The guitarist has blasted the 'All Day' rapper and even questioned whether he writes the music which has featured on his six studio records.
Asked what he thinks about the musician, he raged: "He's a f**king idiot, isn't he? Does he even make his own albums?"
The 46-year-old musician continued to attack the controversial star - who has two-year-old daughter North with his wife, Kim Kardashian West - by insisting "there's no shape" to his music and rubbishing his lyric-writing ability as "idiotic".
He said: "People aren't interested in learning instruments and putting effort and time into it. They want it immediately. It's McDonald's, isn't it? It's convenient.
"But all I hear is a loop starting, some bloke starts to sing or rap, and the loop finishes. There's no shape to this stuff. And the lyrics just seem to be idiotic."
And after laying into the star, the rocker slammed the wider music industry by insisting all modern music is "boring".
He ranted to The Guardian newspaper: "Really, the whole music business is s**t, isn't it?
"We need more groups that have a bit more passion or sexiness or politics or something going for them.
"Instead, it just seems like a splurge of s**t all over the internet. And it's just so boring - people in too much make-up with session musicians."
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Mark Ronson misses the "vibe" of DJing at house parties.
The 'Uptown Funk' hitmaker has fond memories of his early gigs because they always felt so "special".
He said: "House parties and basement clubs were the things I used to have the most fun DJing when I was starting off...
"I played a lot of house parties over the years, I remember the early ones were just some little loft in downtown New York, where you'd just come in with a PA.
"I miss those days of playing house parties because there is a vibe, and there is something special when you play."
Mark is teaming up with DJ A-Trak at the Virgin Media V Festival next month and hopes their set at Our House - which will be streamed live - will recapture his house party sessions.
He said: "When you're playing by yourself, you kind of have your sets you know that work but when you play with someone else you don't usually play with, they might play something that takes you down another lane, and that's what I love about playing with A-Trak, he might play something that takes me somewhere completely different...
"I guess the set at Virgin Media Our House will take people on a musical journey, but you still want people banging on the walls and playing the things that they love. But that's the thing about house parties."
And because he knows he's performing to such a wide audience via the Internet, he'll also be sharing some of his favourite tracks.
He added "Virgin Media's Our House - a million people might be streaming it so it gives us a reason to play the things that we love."
For music fans who can't be in Chelmsford on August 23, Mark's set will be live-streamed from the festival on Virgin Media's YouTube channel, while the telecommunications company will also provide free WiFi across the festival sites.
Virgin Media V Festival takes places at Hylands Park in Chelmsford, Essex, and Weston Park in Staffordshire from August 22 - 23 2015.
See Mark and A-Trak's video interview about their Virgin Media Our House set at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAGOJGZeYPY&feature=youtu.be.
Mark Ronson misses house party vibe
Mark Ronson misses the "vibe" of DJing at house parties.
The 'Uptown Funk' hitmaker has fond memories of his early gigs because they always felt so "special".
He said: "House parties and basement clubs were the things I used to have the most fun DJing when I was starting off...
"I played a lot of house parties over the years, I remember the early ones were just some little loft in downtown New York, where you'd just come in with a PA.
"I miss those days of playing house parties because there is a vibe, and there is something special when you play."
Mark is teaming up with DJ A-Trak at the Virgin Media V Festival next month and hopes their set at Our House - which will be streamed live - will recapture his house party sessions.
He said: "When you're playing by yourself, you kind of have your sets you know that work but when you play with someone else you don't usually play with, they might play something that takes you down another lane, and that's what I love about playing with A-Trak, he might play something that takes me somewhere completely different...
"I guess the set at Virgin Media Our House will take people on a musical journey, but you still want people banging on the walls and playing the things that they love. But that's the thing about house parties."
And because he knows he's performing to such a wide audience via the Internet, he'll also be sharing some of his favourite tracks.
He added "Virgin Media's Our House - a million people might be streaming it so it gives us a reason to play the things that we love."
For music fans who can't be in Chelmsford on August 23, Mark's set will be live-streamed from the festival on Virgin Media's YouTube channel, while the telecommunications company will also provide free WiFi across the festival sites.
Virgin Media V Festival takes places at Hylands Park in Chelmsford, Essex, and Weston Park in Staffordshire from August 22 - 23 2015.
See Mark and A-Trak's video interview about their Virgin Media Our House set at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAGOJGZeYPY&feature=youtu.be.
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Redfoo has promised his debut solo album will feature "romantic songs".
The former LMFAO star - who shot to fame with singles including 'Party Rock Anthem' and 'Sexy and I Know It' - is gearing up to release 'Where the Sun Goes' and has promised to show his softer side on the collection.
Speaking exclusively to BANG Showbiz, he revealed: "It has a summertime attitude and the songs are fun. I do have some romantic songs on there. I actually have a love ballad."
Although he has been hard at work on the LP, the 39-year-old singer has recently been spending time presenting new TV show 'Say It In Song', which shows people surprising their pals with special musical messages.
And Redfoo believes the programme - which premieres on Monday August 3 at 8pm, only on MTV - is another way in which he is portraying "a different side" to his personality.
He explained: "It's about dealing with people and relationships, and communicating their feelings and using song to do that, because you can kinda do more with song. And there are some pretty inspiring stories so there are definitely some serious moments. It's a little bit of a different side for me."
But after working on the programme, the 'New Thang' hitmaker has vowed to focus on his music, following other TV jobs including a two-year stint as a judge on 'The X Factor Australia'.
Asked if he had more television plans in the pipeline, he added: "Not at the moment. There's a couple of things in the early stages of development but I've really just been focusing on finishing my album and have just been in the studio a lot."
Redfoo vows to show ‘romantic’ side on LP
Redfoo has promised his debut solo album will feature "romantic songs".
The former LMFAO star - who shot to fame with singles including 'Party Rock Anthem' and 'Sexy and I Know It' - is gearing up to release 'Where the Sun Goes' and has promised to show his softer side on the collection.
Speaking exclusively to BANG Showbiz, he revealed: "It has a summertime attitude and the songs are fun. I do have some romantic songs on there. I actually have a love ballad."
Although he has been hard at work on the LP, the 39-year-old singer has recently been spending time presenting new TV show 'Say It In Song', which shows people surprising their pals with special musical messages.
And Redfoo believes the programme - which premieres on Monday August 3 at 8pm, only on MTV - is another way in which he is portraying "a different side" to his personality.
He explained: "It's about dealing with people and relationships, and communicating their feelings and using song to do that, because you can kinda do more with song. And there are some pretty inspiring stories so there are definitely some serious moments. It's a little bit of a different side for me."
But after working on the programme, the 'New Thang' hitmaker has vowed to focus on his music, following other TV jobs including a two-year stint as a judge on 'The X Factor Australia'.
Asked if he had more television plans in the pipeline, he added: "Not at the moment. There's a couple of things in the early stages of development but I've really just been focusing on finishing my album and have just been in the studio a lot."
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Oasis creator Alan McGee thinks Liam Gallagher should record a song with Neil Young.
Alan, 54, believes the rocker is in need of a one-off collaboration to revive his career and thinks it would be "amazing" for him to work with the 69-year-old singer/songwriter.
He said: "Liam can look after himself now. But a collaboration with Neil Young would be amazing. He's a brilliant songwriter, that could help Liam a lot."
And the music industry executive believes such a track might be the only music Liam releases as his estranged brother and former bandmate Noel Gallagher has no interest in reforming the band.
He told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "I don't think Noel will reform Oasis. He is in the happiest place I've ever seen him."
Liam surprised fans last weekend when he decided to perform several songs, including a brand new track, at a pub on the west coast of Ireland prompting people to wonder whether the track meant he would be following in Noel's footsteps by releasing solo material.
However, a representative for the 42-year-old musician denied the claims.
Alan McGee wants Liam Gallagher to record with Neil Young
Oasis creator Alan McGee thinks Liam Gallagher should record a song with Neil Young.
Alan, 54, believes the rocker is in need of a one-off collaboration to revive his career and thinks it would be "amazing" for him to work with the 69-year-old singer/songwriter.
He said: "Liam can look after himself now. But a collaboration with Neil Young would be amazing. He's a brilliant songwriter, that could help Liam a lot."
And the music industry executive believes such a track might be the only music Liam releases as his estranged brother and former bandmate Noel Gallagher has no interest in reforming the band.
He told the Daily Mirror newspaper: "I don't think Noel will reform Oasis. He is in the happiest place I've ever seen him."
Liam surprised fans last weekend when he decided to perform several songs, including a brand new track, at a pub on the west coast of Ireland prompting people to wonder whether the track meant he would be following in Noel's footsteps by releasing solo material.
However, a representative for the 42-year-old musician denied the claims.