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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.
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.
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.
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...
Jun 17, 2024 · Pete Townshend is a British guitarist and singer-songwriter best known as the lead guitarist and principal songwriter for the British rock band the Who. Townshend’s evocative songwriting has earned him a reputation as an inventive and intellectual rock music composer.
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.
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.”...
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 Spotify...
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.”
