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In 1997 Townshend signed a deal with Little, Brown and Company publishing to write his autobiography, reportedly titled Pete Townshend: Who He? Townshend's creative vagaries and conceptual machinations have been chronicled by Larry David Smith in his book The Minstrel's Dilemma ( Praeger 1999).
Pete Townshend, The Who’s guitarist and principal songwriter, was born into a musical family in Chiswick, West London, on May 19, 1945. His father Cliff played the alto saxophone with the RAF dance band The Squadronaires, and his mother Betty Dennis sang professionally.
Dec 1, 2023 · Townshend, 78, has come to town from the Oxfordshire country house where he lives with his wife, musician Rachel Fuller. The reason for his trip is The Who’s biggest failure, Lifehouse —...
Mar 23, 2024 · Townshend is one of rock’s great singers, songwriters and guitarists, and he’s also among music’s pre-eminent talkers. Since the Who first took the stage 60 years ago, he has...
Feb 2, 2024 · During the golden age of rock ’n’ roll, Pete Townshend helped define and redefine both the electric and acoustic guitar several times over. As the Who’s guitarist, he pioneered an aggressive, almost punky approach to the guitar in the mid-1960s, at least a decade before punk was a genre.
Nov 25, 2019 · Of all the key figures from rock music’s glory days, the Who’s Pete Townshend is the one to have had most deeply interrogated — on albums like “Quadrophenia” and in his own writing over the...
May 23, 2024 · A late-70s blitz of punk, personal problems and tragedy forced The Who’s Pete Townshend to reassess his life and career. One of the results was his solo masterpiece Empty Glass. (Image credit: Martyn Goddard/Shutterstock) In early 1977, Keith Moon took Pete Townshend to see Generation X at the Marquee Club.
Jun 17, 2024 · Pete Townshend is a British guitarist and singer-songwriter best known as the lead guitarist and principal songwriter for the British rock band the Who. Townshend’s evocative songwriting has earned him a reputation as an inventive and intellectual rock music composer.
Feb 13, 2022 · Pete Townshend on the Who’s 2022 Tour, the Keith Moon Biopic, and His Inevitable Retirement. The guitarist also sounds off on the absurdity of NFTs, the future of classic rock, the Spotify...
One of the most recognisable figures in the pantheon of popular music, Pete Townshend has spent 50 years at the helm of rock legends The Who, primarily as guitarist and principal songwriter.
