Pete Townshend has stated on several occasions that he has always found it difficult to collaborate. Even on the album he did with Ronnie Lane, Rough Mix, there aren't any songs that the two co-wrote.
But there is one person that some feel Pete would work well with: Mick Jagger (pictured to the left with David Bowie and Pete).
Townshend supplied extra guitar on the Rolling Stones' song "Slave" on their 1981 Tattoo You album, but Pete and Mick have never written together.
"Y'know, even very, very intimate friends like Mick Jagger, and I'm a great fan of his solo work, I think it's incredibly underestimated. Y'know, he's asked me to work on several records with him and I've very much enjoyed doing it. But he's never suggested that we write together. Now, his ex-wife Jerry (Hall) used to say all the time, 'You and Pete should write together.' And we would kind of go, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah. It may happen, it may not.'"
My money is on it not happening, but we'll see.
Pete did provide guitar for two songs - "Gun" and "Joy" - on Mick's Goddess in the Doorway album which came out in 2001. "Gun" is below.
U2's Bono also worked on "Joy" which you can see Jagger and Bono working together if you click this.
Another rock star that Pete has never done any writing with is David Bowie, although Pete did play guitar on a few of Bowie's songs:
Below Pete and Bowie on "Because You're Young,"which is off of Bowie's 1980 album Scary Monsters and Super Creeps.
The video below is Pete and David Bowie on "Slow Burn," which is from Bowie's 2002 album Heathen.
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