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Pete Townshend. Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend ( / ˈtaʊnzənd /; born 19 May 1945) is an English musician. He is the co-founder, guitarist, second lead vocalist and principal songwriter of the Who, one of the most influential rock bands of the 1960s and 1970s. [2] [3] His aggressive playing style and poetic songwriting techniques, with the ...
Pete Townshend. 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. An aunt encouraged him to learn piano but after seeing ...
Feb 2, 2024 · “Pete Townshend is one of my greatest influences,” Rush’s Alex Lifeson, a guitar virtuoso in his own right, said of Townshend’s often underrated talent on the guitar. “More than any other guitarist, he taught me how to play rhythm guitar and demonstrated its importance, particularly in a three-piece band.”
- Jeff Slate
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. In early 1977, Keith Moon took Pete Townshend to see Generation X at the Marquee Club. “It was my first punk concert,” Townshend recalled in 2019.
May 19, 2023 · 9. ‘The Acid Queen’ – Tommy. For a subject matter as gargantuan as Tommy, Townshend needed someone like Roger Daltrey to play different characters in the role. Given Daltrey’s versatile voice, his way of being the spectator in ‘Pinball Wizard’ and the stern authority figures in Tommy’s life is impossible to imagine being sung any ...
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 — the ...
Jun 25, 2024 · Pete Townshend: “I’ve been a fan of ballet. Kit Lambert, was The Who’s manager, who was the son of Constant Lambert, who was one of the founders of the Royal Opera House. He had a box in the ...
