Pete Townshend, tenor Alfie Boe and the Roots teamed to perform the Who‘s “Love Reign O’er Me” on The Tonight Show Friday. Boe’s Tony-winning vocals fill in for Roger Daltrey on the ...

Many of Townshend’s newer songs — more than 20 years old, all — are about surviving in a mixed-up, muddled-up world; “Behind Blue Eyes,” “Love, Reign O’er Me” and “Bargain” in ...

“Reign Over Me,” at least, is about nostalgia as the ultimate escapist phenomenon for someone in deep psychological pain. Sadly, nostalgia is also a lazy shortcut to the film’s emotional ...