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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 —...
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 years...
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 9, 2019 · Pete Townshend: ‘I woke up with a needle in my arm and Phil Lynott standing there’. The Who guitarist on addiction, his new novel and why he’s still touring 40 years later.
Mar 23, 2024 · March 23, 2024. As he entered a suite at the Carlyle hotel in Manhattan, Pete Townshend mentioned that an afternoon meeting had been canceled. “So,” he added, “we have lots of time to talk.”...
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.
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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...
May 8, 2022 · Pete Townshend is, in a new two-hour release from Audible that is effectively a casual audio sequel to his formal autobiography, 2012’s “Who I Am.”
