While Roger Daltrey keeps his voice limber on his Use It or Lose It tour, Pete Townshend is busy working on his latest rock opera, Floss, which will be featured on an album to be released in 2010.
Townshend blogs: "[It] touches on the current issues faced by the Boomer generation. It also addresses their uneasy relationship with their parents, children and grandchildren. As a 19 year old – with My Generation – I wrote the most explicitly ageist song in rock. At 64, I now want to take on ageing and mortality, using the powerfully angry context of rock 'n' roll."
Like Tommy and Quadrophenia, "the songs are interspersed with surround-sound 'soundscapes' featuring complex sound-effects and musical montages," Townshend writes.
The Who's last studio release was Endless Wire in 2006, which featured the mini-opera Wire and Glass in its first nine tracks.
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