There’s a power to music that brings people together and takes them to other places. As the guitarist and principal songwriter of the legendary British rock band and Simpsons guest stars The Who, Pete Townshend witnessed that power first hand. That power fueled many of the band’s songs — and it also inspired his other writings. One such film script was an ambitious science-fiction, rock opera about rock and roll liberating a dystopian society titled Life House. It was meant to be the follow-up to The Who’s Tommy, but instead, songs from the project became part of the band’s fifth studio album, 1971’s Who’s Next.Townshend would revisit the idea several times, but none of the attempts to revive Life House came close to his original cinematic vision — until now. Image Comics has released Pete Townshend’s Life House: a deluxe hardcover graphic novel adaptation of the original film script by writers James Harvey and David Hine, with art by Harvey and Max Prentis. CBR spoke with Townshend about the history, inspirations and story of Life House and having his vision finally realized.Pete Townshend: I think I’ve stuck with it because I’ve never felt that it really ever landed properly. With this incarnation, it feels to me that it’s landed really well… The reason why I feel this [graphic novel] incarnation is probably the closing chapter for me with Life House is that it’s based so closely on the first two film scripts that I wrote. One [was] the original script in 1970, and then a bit of an update of it in, I think, 1978. Those two scripts form the basis for this comic. I feel that my cinematic storytelling vision has been realized in this.
There’s a power to music that brings people together and takes them to other places. As the guitarist and principal songwriter of the legendary British rock band and Simpsons guest stars The Who, Pete Townshend witnessed that power first hand. That power fueled many of the band’s songs — and it also inspired his other writings. One such film script was an ambitious science-fiction, rock opera about rock and roll liberating a dystopian society titled Life House. It was meant to be the follow-up to The Who’s Tommy, but instead, songs from the project became part of the band’s fifth studio album, 1971’s Who’s Next.
Townshend would revisit the idea several times, but none of the attempts to revive Life House came close to his original cinematic vision — until now. Image Comics has released Pete Townshend’s Life House: a deluxe hardcover graphic novel adaptation of the original film script by writers James Harvey and David Hine, with art by Harvey and Max Prentis. CBR spoke with Townshend about the history, inspirations and story of Life House and having his vision finally realized.
Pete Townshend: I think I’ve stuck with it because I’ve never felt that it really ever landed properly. With this incarnation, it feels to me that it’s landed really well… The reason why I feel this [graphic novel] incarnation is probably the closing chapter for me with Life House is that it’s based so closely on the first two film scripts that I wrote. One [was] the original script in 1970, and then a bit of an update of it in, I think, 1978. Those two scripts form the basis for this comic. I feel that my cinematic storytelling vision has been realized in this.
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