LOS ANGELES - Singer Roger Daltrey and guitarist Pete Townshend -- the two surviving members of the legendary British rock band The Who -- will get together next month for what could be their first studio album since 1982.
"I'm just about to go into the studio again with Pete for the first time in 22 years," Daltrey, 60, told Reuters in an interview.
"It's exciting. I think it's going to be very different. We are going to take a completely new approach to how we work in the studio and see what happens," he said.
The deaths of drummer Keith Moon in 1978 and bassist John Entwistle in 2002 left only Daltrey and Townshend from the original lineup of The Who -- the influential band that made its name in the 1960s by smashing up its equipment and proclaiming "hope I die before I get old."
Despite several reunions, solo projects and the release in May of two new songs on a greatest hits compilation, The Who has not made a studio recording since 1982's "It's Hard."
"There is only Pete and I left. First thing we're going to be doing is him and I going in and making music just together. Then we're going to get our stage band together and work around involving them in whatever that band creates, which is a different thing again," Daltrey said.
In a posting on his Web site, Townshend said the working title for the project, starting in mid-December, was "Who2."
"We may have a CD ready to release in the spring...If the recording works out, we will tour...in the first half of 2005," he said. (As reported by Reuters)
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