Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend (born May 19, 1945 in Chiswick, London) is an influential English rock guitarist and songwriter who is best known as the guitarist for the rock band The Who.

Biography

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Born into a musical family (his father Cliff was a professional saxophonist in the The Squadronaires and his mother Betty a singer), Townshend exhibited a fascination with music at an early age. He had early exposure to American rock and roll (his mother recounts that he repeatedly saw the 1956 film Rock Around the Clock) and obtained his first guitar from his grandmother at age 12, which he described as a "Cheap Spanish thing."

In 1961 Townshend enrolled at Ealing Art College, and, a year later, he and his school friend from Acton County Grammar School John Entwistle founded their first band, The Confederates, a Dixieland duet featuring Townshend on banjo and Entwistle on horn. From this beginning they moved on to The Detours, a skiffle band fronted by then sheet-metal welder Roger Daltrey, which, under Townshend's leadership, would metamorphose into The Who. They were soon taken on by a mod publicist (named Peter Meaden) who convinced them to change their name to The High Numbers to give it more of a mod feel. After bringing out one single (Zoot Suit), they were signed on by two new managers, Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert. This was the beginning of The Who.

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Pete Townshend ~ And I Moved - Hey @andrew025 ~ RE: "queen of the effing universe" ~ you rang? ;-) ♫ http://blip.fm/~icvsq
Flying_Roundhou (Flying Roundhouse) Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:10:35 -0000
Pete Townshend ~ And I Moved - Hey @andrew025 ~ RE: "queen of the effing universe" ~ you rang? ;-) ♫ http://blip.fm/~icvsq
#shinfo. watching history of rock n roll and pete townshend said he hated zeppelin.."good dudes but I don't dig the sound". WTF pete!?
sneeweezy (sneeweezy) Sun, 27 Dec 2009 06:41:33 -0000
#shinfo. watching history of rock n roll and pete townshend said he hated zeppelin.."good dudes but I don't dig the sound". WTF pete!?
Pete Townshend has a Facebook, it's really him, on private. I'm too chicken to send an invite... :(
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Pete Townshend has a Facebook, it's really him, on private. I'm too chicken to send an invite... :(
Now Playing: Let My Love Open The Door by Pete Townshend
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#NowPlaying Let my love open the door - Pete Townshend
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