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A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.
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.
Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.
But what was interesting about ... (more Pete Townshend quotes)
Pete has said he dislikes what rock music has turned into since the 90s.
Pete: Everything that I had done creatively related to two or three incidents that happened to me when I was a child that I'd forgotten. Everything, absolutely everything.
Pete can also play bass.
Pete was ranked the 12th best guitarist of all time by the radio station 102.9 WMGK.
Pete was the first guitarist to use the windmill move, a move which he claimed to have ... (more Pete Townshend trivia)
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