Watch The Who play Pete Townshend solo track for first time in 33 years

The Who performed Pete Townshend‘s solo track ‘Let My Love Open The Door’ for the first time in 33 years during TCT concert in London.  The band also debuted 'Beads On One String' in support of Ukraine

The group played a special concert at the Royal Albert Hall last Friday night (March 25) in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust. Frontman Roger Daltrey is a patron of the charity and launched the TCT gig series back in 2000. (NME)

The Who delivered a stripped-back acoustic set that included a sprinkling of deep cuts and rarities from across the band’s catalogue. They also performed a solo Townshend song from his 1980 album ‘Empty Glass’. Well, this next song is definitely not a Who hit,” the guitarist told the crowd to introduce ‘Let My Love Open The Door’, which hadn’t been played by the group since 1989. “It’s a Pete hit.”

Pete Townshend is pleased to announce that Mercury Studios will be releasing on Record Store Day 2022, for the very first time on vinyl, his Face The Face album recorded live at MIDEM in Cannes in 1986 and broadcast live by Rockpalast, the German TV show.

The album was previously released on DVD/CD in 2016.  Record Store Day 2022 is on 23 April 2022. To find your local participating store please visit Record Store Day US or Record Store Day UK

The new 2 LP set is pressed on bright yellow vinyl and includes 14 songs from the concert. Pete’s band, Deep End, feature Pete on guitar and vocals backed by Peter Hope-Evans: harmonica, Chucho Merchan: bass, Simon Phillips: drums, John ‘Rabbit’ Bundrick: keyboards, Jody Linscot: percussion and special guest, David Gilmour: guitar.

Also featured are the Kick Horns: Simon Clarke, Roddy Lorimer, Tim Sanders, Pete Beachill and Dave Plews. Backing vocals are: Billy Nicholls, Ian Ellis, Chris Staines, Gina Foster and Coral Gordon.

The Who’s Pete Townshend seems to be making a new solo album - We do not know yet if the new recording sessions of these days are related to the production of these unreleased tracks or to the packaging of a new solo album.

As NME reports, Over the weekend, Townshend was spotted in the studio with session bassist Guy Pratt (whose portfolio includes work with Pink Floyd, Madonna, The Smiths and more) and drummer Ged Lynch (a longtime collaborator of Peter Gabriel). The former posted a photo of the trio on Twitter, writing: “To say the last couple of days recording has been beyond magical would be an understatement.”

To say the last couple of days recording has been beyond magical would be an understatement. pic.twitter.com/GFlzPbXyyF

— Guy Pratt 🇪🇺Mask Wearer.Boosted. (@guypratt) February 5, 2022

Pete Townshend joined a new interview with Mojo Magazine in which he revealed that the record company found an unreleased track called ‘Ambition’ featuring him, Keith Moon, and John Entwistle.

 “2021 would have been the 50th anniversary of the Who’s Next album and a good opportunity to do a box set and to have conversations about it. But we missed it for obvious reasons. And so in 2022, there is a box set and the box set is to some extent being perfumed by the fact that I’ve been working with a guy called Jeff Krelitz on a Lifehouse graphic novel, and we’re hoping that that will come out around the same time. There’s talk of a documentary, all of this stuff. It makes me want to run away (laughs).”