The Who | Songs Pete Townshend Wrote for Other Artists

Very good! I remember reading a review from either Mel Ody Maker or NME maybe that Townshend did a short solo gig and he treated the audience to a cassette tape recording of the demo "Join My Gang". I'm sure someone taped it or it was bootlegged but I've never heard it. Arguably it should be mentioned Townshend contributed music to the art film " The Lone Ranger"( available on You Tube.) Thanx

I believe that David Gilmour on his 1980's album titled " About Face " had a tune on it called " All Lovers Are Deranged " was penned by Pete Townshend .

love Pete of course, but i can't help comment on that Nichols fella (aka "Oscar", haha).
as i'm watching it i'm thinking, 'that kid looks familiar", then we learn that Oscar became Paul Nichols and was the infamous Cousin Kevin!! YES!!
I always liked the Cousin Kevin character and really liked how Nichols had that evil grin and seemed very eager to abuse Tommy. His portrayal of Cousin Kevin always reminded me of Alex in A Clockwork Orange.
I've heard that Mick Jagger was almost cast to play Alex?? Maybe Oscar/Nichols would've been a decent play too? haha. forget it, Malcolm McDowell was the best and will go down in history as the face of young Alex FOREVER!!

"Love on the Air" written for David Gilmour / About Face album.

I was expecting 'Something In The Air' by Thunderclap Newman - his biggest hit for another artist?

EDIT: This has been answered earlier in the comments - Townsend produced and all round contributed on the record, but he never wrote it.

Ever do a story on the detours what songs they had and who played in the band and what band they turned into?

"Magic Bus", the Live at Leeds version!

Thunderbirds are go!

Pete’s intros are the greatest of any band! Prove me wrong!

Rubbish songs with very little chance of charting.Pete wrote beautiful songs for his group the Who,my favs are substitute and i'm a boy.

Has the book come out yet?

Townsend is a genius Tommy

Not impressed really.

It figures that he wrote do you wanna be in my gang.

What a load of..
I'll never get that 7 minutes back (I skipped a whack of that duff video)

Townshend also gave 2 songs to David Gilmour for his early eighties solo album "About Face" Murder and All Lovers Are Deranged. Great Album.

Pete Townshend's songs are as good as any song I'd write and I'd write a song as bad as the next guy. Some people have the gift and everyone else doesn't. Pete doesn't have the gift and if you disagree, you need to see an audiologist. Don't reply to me, because I don't care. Hey, there's a song title.

I only hear good stuff about pete

Text to speech should be banned

None of these songs were good

Magic Bus ultimately became known as the encore song in the era of destroyed instruments. Entwistle never smashed his bass and they could perform the song with bass and Moon playing blocks instead of his (broken) drums.

Love that you covered the brilliant Pete Townshend (however after losing my closet person in the world a couple years ago, the intro music of 21 is bittersweet to me). Pete deserves his place at the top of the rockpile for his ahead of their time concepts, his powerful, melodic music and his maximum r&b!

What about "Something In The Air" by Thunderclap Newman? Pete even played bass on that recording. Possibly his biggest non-Who song.

Not Magic Bus!!!!!
I Love that Song!!! Who does it Fantastic!!!!! A Fav!

OH! so that makes the who's magic bus a cover of the pudding's magic bus.

What about the song "it was only for research purposes, honest guv"?

He was also a "Great" Collector of Child Porn. A sack of shit, and can go to HELL.

Always writing about young boys in a cheapie way.

Also of note is Townshend's song "After the Fire" which he
gave to Roger Daltrey for this solo album in 1985.
I think this song was originally intended for a mid-eighties
Who album, but rancor in the band prevented the completion
of creation of this album so Townshed gave it to Daltrey as
a peace offering.

this is really cool, could you do one about marriott/lane that would be really cool

Interesting .

Great songwriter but he wasn't very successful writing songs for others it appears, none of the ones you mentioned were hits but.

Chuck Norris wrote songs for Pete Townsend.

WHAT UTTER RUBBISH ! PHEW ! PHEW ! PHEW ! 😂 🤣 😂 🤣 😂

Substitute, fantastic song.

Pete Townshend solo albums were good also especially his first one-all the songs were good not one filler in the lot.

my favorite of Pete's written for other artist was the one by Thunder Clap Newman "Something in the air".

I had no idea about The Pudding's version of Magic Bus. I like The Who's version better which has a Diddley-ish sound.

What about Something in the Air by Thunderclap Newman? i thought Townshend wrote that too?

pete carried all the fgts in this community on his back for over 50 years like cmon now

Chairman Townshend never disappoints. Join my gang is a wonderful tune. It’s a drag there’s not a proper PT version of it released to the world.

Place your bets, ladies and gents. Will there in fact be a trial? Magic 8 ball says, "Don't count on it."

Maybe the single greatest person in the history of rock and roll. Including Robert Zimmermann.

Townshend is the kind of genius where even his fails are fascinating

The Pudding? :0)

Just as Steve Jones and Paul Cook make uncredited appearances as the targets of "preaching from my chair" in "Who Are You", so does Allen Klein in the "lost verse", where the lyric was "One-nighters in the boardroom / Petrify the human brain", referring to a marathon encounter that Pete had with Klein some years later. I know I've seen him talk about the initial encounter and then Klein's flying back into the group's orbit to try to make good on threats to have control over their music.

there's only one thing that can be said of Pete Townshend. he is a musical genius. am a 65 year old man I saw the who 5 times. and I have seen a lot of great rock bands back in the 70s. living in North Philadelphia PA all the great bands came to Philly. BUT I HAVE REALIZED THAT PETE TOWNSHEND IS A MUSICAL GENIUS. THE WHO IS THE GREATEST ROCK BAND EVER.

Paul nicholas. I love that top five us hit. I remember when it came out I was 6 years old. I hadn't heard it for like 25 years and heard it again in the late '90s. Pretty cool. He is much more known for his acting since he did a lot more of that though check out the pictures leave on that record. It's really 1970s glam.