Editing Pete Townshend (section)

=== 1996–present: latest Who work ===
From the mid-1990s through the present, Townshend has participated in a series of tours with the surviving members of the Who, including a 2002 tour that continued despite Entwistle's death.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/petetownshend/articles/story/5939827/pete_townshend_the_rs_interview |title=Pete Townshend: The Rolling Stone Interview |first=Chris |last=Heath |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=July 2002 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090505214145/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/petetownshend/articles/story/5939827/pete_townshend_the_rs_interview |archive-date=5 May 2009 }}</ref>

In February 2006, a major world tour by the Who was announced to promote their first new album since 1982. Townshend published a semi-autobiographical story ''[[The Boy Who Heard Music]]'' as a serial on a blog beginning in September 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.petetownshend.co.uk/projects |title=The Who Official Band Website – Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle, and Keith Moon, Home |website=Petetownshend.co.uk |access-date=15 May 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070127080528/http://www.petetownshend.co.uk/projects/ |archive-date=27 January 2007 }}</ref> The blog closed in October 2006, as noted on Townshend's website. It is now owned by a different user and does not relate to Townshend's work in any way. On 25 February 2006, he announced the issue of a mini-opera inspired by the novella for June 2006. In October 2006 the Who released their first album in 24 years, ''[[Endless Wire (The Who album)|Endless Wire]]''.

The Who performed at the [[Super Bowl XLIV]] half-time show on 7 February 2010, playing a medley of songs that included "Pinball Wizard", "[[Who Are You (The Who song)|Who Are You]]", "Baba O'Riley", "[[See Me, Feel Me]]", and "Won't Get Fooled Again".<ref>{{cite news|last=Belson |first=Ken |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/sports/football/03halftime.html |title=The Who, and the Super Bowl's Evolving Halftime Show |newspaper=The New York Times |date=2 February 2010 |access-date=8 February 2010}}</ref> In 2012, the Who announced they would tour the rock opera ''Quadrophenia''.

The Who were the final performers at the [[2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony]] in London, performing a medley of "Baba O'Riley", "See Me, Feel Me", and "My Generation".<ref>{{cite web|title=Closing Ceremony|url=http://www.london2012.com/spectators/ceremonies/closing-ceremony/|publisher=London 2012|access-date=20 July 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120718061942/http://www.london2012.com/spectators/ceremonies/closing-ceremony/|archive-date=18 July 2012}}</ref>

On 22 March 2018, Townshend stated that a new Who album should feature original songs by [[Roger Daltrey]] as well as him.<ref name="kshe95 Townshend Daltrey new Who album">{{cite web |url=http://www.kshe95.com/news/real-rock-news/pete-townshend-thinks-roger-daltrey-should-write-songs-next-who-album |title=Roger Daltrey should write songs for next Who album |date=21 March 2018 |website=Kshe95.com |access-date=22 March 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180323031215/http://www.kshe95.com/news/real-rock-news/pete-townshend-thinks-roger-daltrey-should-write-songs-next-who-album |archive-date=23 March 2018 |url-status=dead  }}</ref> That album, simply titled ''[[Who (album)|Who]],'' was released on 6 December 2019. It was the band's second album as a duo, and their first in thirteen years.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://consequence.net/2019/11/album-review-the-who-who/|title=Album Review: The Who Remain Blunt as Ever on Uneven WHO|date=29 November 2019}}</ref>