In 1997 Townshend signed a deal with Little, Brown and Company publishing to compose his autobiography, reportedly titled Pete Townshend: Who He? Notable jobs included editing Animals frontman Eric Burdon's autobiography, Charles Shaar Murray's award-profitable Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix and Post-War Pop, Brian Eno and Russell Mills's More Dark Than Shark, and performing with Prince Charles on a volume of his collected speeches.