Pete Townshend
Pete Townshend
Peter Dennis Blandford "Pete" Townshendis an English musician, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the lead guitarist and songwriter for the rock band The Who. His career with the Who spans more than 50 years, during which time the band grew to be considered one of the most influential bands of the 20th century...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth19 May 1945
CityLondon, England
girl quality naked
I want fast food, pretty naked girls preferably tattooed.
gay men rivers
Rumors went round that I might be gay. In some ways, I was happy w/ this. Larry Rivers proved to me that a gay man could be wild, attractive, and courageous; in any case one's sexuality was becoming less of an issue every day. One of the great things about the British Mod movement was that being macho was no longer the only measure of manhood.
yesterday play today
The music we play has to be tomorrow's, the things we say have to be today, and the reason for bothering is yesterday.
rocks punk tsunami
Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.
hell pursuit behave
Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.
stories passages rite
I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.
ive-learned huge tested
I've learned a huge amount because I've been tested and, more importantly, I've been trusted.
age want dignity
I want to age with some dignity.
ordinary-days brian died
It's an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.
mods happening-again happenings
It's like the mod thing is happening again.
thinking interesting people
But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can.
class hypocrisy people
Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.
paris records dutch
I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine.
writing men political
Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.