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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.
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 —...
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.
May 19, 2023 · From their humble beginnings to some of their beloved deep cuts, some of The Who’s greatest moments come when Townshend takes the lead, with a voice far more delicate than Daltrey’s raw muscle. Since Townshend reserved songs for himself, some reveal a little more about him than he wanted to.
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
Mar 23, 2024 · With ‘Tommy’ Revival, Pete Townshend Is Talking to a New Generation. He’s also still working through his childhood trauma. Considering his musical’s legacy, he sees a story about how “we...
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. Expand.
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...
Oct 7, 2023 · The guitarist talks to Kevin E G Perry about his 2003 arrest, his Seventies eco-meltdown rock opera, and how he feels about Rishi Sunak’s Tories.
