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Pete Townshend Remembers the ‘Great Adventure’ of Who Offshoot Band Thunderclap Newman

Mark Wilkerson has brought into the present my early years at Ealing Art College in 1963. That was when Andy Newman — alias Thunderclap — enchanted me with his piano playing. And according to a legend ...
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Pete Townshend on the ‘Magic’ Era of Thunderclap Newman, ‘Tommy,’ and 1969, the Year That Saved the Who

The only thing less likely than Thunderclap Newman, the strange band masterminded by Pete Townshend in 1969, having a No. 1 single is the notion that a 400-plus page history of them would be published ...
American Songwriter

How Pete Townshend’s Driver Helped Create “Something In The Air”, Thunderclap Newman’s Lone Smash

In the annals of one-hit wonder-dom, there might not be a stranger configuration of musicians than the trio that comprised Thunderclap Newman. Meanwhile, their one hit stood as one of the most ...
American Songwriter

The Who’s Pete Townshend Has Penned the Foreword to New Book About Thunderclap Newman, the One-Hit Wonder Band He Helped Form

A limited-edition hardcover version of the book, signed by Townshend and author Mark Wilkerson, can be pre-ordered now at ThirdManBooks.com, and will ship on November 14. The hardback edition will ...
Under the Radar

Hollywood Dream: The Thunderclap Newman Story

Whether you realize it or not, you’ve probably heard “Something In The Air.” Released in 1969 under the band name Thunderclap Newman, a project helmed by The Who’s Pete Townshend, the song was ...
Classical Music

We only got one album from these 14 bands. If only we'd got more

From Derek and the Dominos to Thunderclap Newman, these 14 brilliant acts stuck around for just one album – and we’re still yearning for more ...