Second CLip with a very young Adele (1972) in the attic, as well with Rachel Fuller. Tird a Documentary of P.T: in is old home recording studio.
Adele was a featured guest on In The Attic Road Show on 5-29-07 with Rachel Fuller and Pete Townshend. The ITA road webcasts took place in an Airstream trailer and were aired live before The Who's concerts throughout their 2006/2007 European tour. Adele was just working on her first album. She chats with Pete, Rachel and Mikey Cuthbert, and plays a couple of her new tunes. http://petetownshend.net
In 2007, Townshend declared the death of rock ‘n’ roll and lost faith in the younger generation to carry the torch. He felt very few artists were using music as a vehicle of protest, and rock ‘n’ roll had lost the authentic fury that once fuelled it.
In a blog post, he wrote: “I think rock music is about to throw off some of its testosterone-driven defiance. Wherever I look today I see younger musicians demanding a new level of intimacy from their audience. This is not entirely about protest, rather about music performed gently that expresses a single idea, even anger is delivered gently.”
However, in an interview with the New York Times in 2021, Townshend accepted that rock music no longer had the same definition as it did when The Who began. Over the years, the genre has constantly evolved and is more than a sound or hit song, it’s the voice of the youth.
He explained: “Authentic to the perceived, accepted ideal of a rock star. Now, online, you’ll see a throwaway statement – ‘rock is dead’ – which is something that we in our genre have been considering since the ’70s. But what is rock? Rock is hip-hop. Rock is probably Taylor Swift. Rock is, dare I say it, Adele and Ed Sheeran. They’ve dared to take on that mantle, and they have to deliver. They’ve got to do something spectacular as performers. Not just as recording artists.”
Townshend continued: “They’ve got to do something amazing, and if it includes dancers, if it includes too much video, then they’re cheating. They know that, we know that, and the audiences know that. That’s why audiences will come to something like a Who concert or a Stones concert, where there might be some video, there might be a symphony orchestra, but at the end of the day it’s about: ‘Can you dance for two and a half hours without dropping dead? Can you sing without lip-syncing for two and a half hours?’ It’s about sport. It’s about entertainment as a physicality. It’s about an endurance test.”
