28 Oct 2009

PETE TALKS BAROQUE AND ROLL

In BAROQUE AND ROLL, a radio programme on BBC Radio 4, The Who guitarist and songwriter Pete Townshend talks about the band’s career and reveals the influence on his songwriting of Baroque composer Henry Purcell, comparing, among many other factors, the quintessential Englishness of Purcell’s writing with his own.
 
BAROQUE AND ROLL was broadcast yesterday on BBC Radio 4 and repeated on Saturday, October 31st at 3.30 pm. You can listen to it on BBC iPlayer by CLICKING HERE.
 
For more information, go to WWW.RADIOTIMES.COM.
 
Review in THE GUARDIAN.