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
writing rocks rock-and-roll
The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.
song writing sondheim
I am writing better Stephen Sondheim songs than even Stephen Sondheim is writing.
writing thinking firsts
Good old Pete. That's me. But I find it hard to think of myself in the first person when I'm writing about The Who. So many times he has willingly sat down to write about the good old Who. Isn't he too old to masturbate?
believe writing years
I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.
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.
writing want knows
If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything.
writing discipline finest
Songwriting is best. It's the hardest ... finest ... tightest. It also requires the most discipline.
band believe dependent duty family guide help rest roger simply ticket whom
I simply believe we have a duty to go on, to ourselves, ticket buyers, staff, promoters, big and little people. I also have a duty to myself and my dependent family and friends. I also want to help guide Roger and the rest of the band at this time, all of whom have been shaken by John's death.
audience free high home hopes mixture proceeds shared special tour web wide
I have high hopes for the whole tour to be shared to a wide audience at home in a mixture of pay-per-view and free special Web casts. Some of the proceeds will go to charity, of course.
I don't know where I'm going I don't know what I need But I'll get to where I'm going to end up And that's all right by me
book chance events lay life offers proper recent
My autobiography now offers me the chance to lay down my life story and place recent events in proper context, ... I have had a long and lumbering life -- this book will take time.
peter rock roll ultimate
Peter Doherty is the ultimate rock 'n' roll nihilist, the ultimate rock 'n' roll f***wit.
decision entirely left whether
left entirely to me the decision as to whether or not to go on with the tour.
advance best criteria efforts filtered finance refuse rejected subjected time
I refuse to have my best efforts - already heavily filtered in advance and subjected to the constraints of finance and time - rejected by any criteria whatsoever.