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
brother blood giving
Give love, and keep blood between brothers
jobs gun men
As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic.
thinking long records
Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.
teenage past trouble
Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood.
work boss
Here comes the new boss Same as the old boss.
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.