Hollywood ? In the category of New Year’s resolutions, Pete Townshend of the Who has pledged to work on a new studio album under the classic rock band’s banner, which would be its first since “It’s Hard” in 1982.

“Expect some new music to arrive in about a year, maybe later,” the guitarist said in a statement posted this week on his Web site.

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Townshend also wrote that he enjoyed a “very warm meeting” earlier this month with Who singer Roger Daltrey, and goes on to say that he wants his bandmate to have a substantial writing presence on the new album — a thought that might surprise longtime Who fans familiar with the pair’s jockeying for control in the band’s glory years.

“I am very keen, too, to see Roger find some creative outlet on this future Who recording,” Townshend wrote. “He is full of ideas, passion and energy — he bears quite a disturbed and serious view of the world at the moment.”

Townshend and Daltrey are the surviving original members of the band after the deaths of drummer Keith Moon in 1978 and bassist John Entwistle last summer.