"It was very strange for Eric Clapton and me. We went and watched Jimi at about 10 London shows together.” Pete Townshend recalled how Jimi Hendrix led him to write ‘Tommy,’ the Who's 1969 breakthrough

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"It was very strange for Eric Clapton and me. We went and watched Jimi at about 10 London shows together.” Pete Townshend recalled how Jimi Hendrix led him to write ‘Tommy,’ the Who's 1969 breakthrough

Pete Townshend tells how Jimi Hendrix's success and appropriation of Townshend's music and performance skills led him to create the Who's breakthrough, 'Tommy'