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Pete Townshend’s White City: A Novel Turns 40 – A Landmark Solo Statement From Rock’s Great Storyteller

by Paul Cashmere

Pete Townshend’s White City: A Novel celebrates 40 years, standing as one of the most powerful and overlooked concept albums of the 1980s.

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