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Pete Townshend
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British musician
Pete Townshend is a British musician best known as the guitarist and primary songwriter for the rock band The Who, which he formed in the 1960s. He matters because he created some of rock music's most influential songs and albums, including the rock opera "Tommy," and helped define the sound and artistic ambitions of rock music during its formative decades.
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Chiswick, London, England, UK
Peter Dennis Blandford "Pete" Townshend (born 19 May 1945) is an English rock guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and author, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for the rock group The Who, as well as for his own solo career. His career with The Who spans more than forty years, during which time the band grew to be considered one of the most influential bands of the 60s and 70s, and,…
Known for
- Billy Idol Should Be Dead — Self2026
- The Who: Quadrophenia Super Deluxe Edition2026
- Pete Townshend: Behind Blue Eyes — Self2026
- The Session Man — Self2025
- The Rock Prophet: The Story of Link Wray — Self2025
- Live Aid at 40: When Rock ’n’ Roll Took on the World — Self2025
- Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd — Self2023
- The Who With Orchestra Live At Wembley2023
- The Who: Who's Next - Life House Super Deluxe Edition2023
- The Who: One Band's Explosive Story — Self - The Who Member2022
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Dennis
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London
- Occupation
- publisher
- Educated at
- Ealing Art College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Tommy
- Participant in
- Live Aid
- Genre
- rock music
- Instrument
- ARP 2600
- Record label
- Track Record
- Official website
- www.petetownshend.co.uk
- Image
- Pete Townshend in Philadelphia with the Who.jpg
- Height
- 72
- Voice type
- tenor
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- Commons category
- Pete Townshend
- date of birth
- 1945-05-19
- topic's main category
- Category:Pete Townshend
- nominated for
- Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical
- medical condition
- tinnitus
- start of work period
- 1962-00-00
- name in native language
- Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend
- copyright representative
- PRS for Music
- short name
- Pete Townshend
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Encyclopedic overview
Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend (/ˈtaʊnzənd/; born 19 May 1945) is an English musician. He is the co-founder, guitarist, keyboardist, second lead vocalist, and principal songwriter of the Who, one of the most influential rock bands of the 1960s and 1970s. His aggressive playing style, poetic songwriting techniques and authorship of two rock operas with the Who, as well as other projects, have earned him critical acclaim.
Townshend has written more than 100 songs for 12 of the Who's studio albums. These include concept albums, the rock operas Tommy (1969) and Quadrophenia (1973), plus popular rock radio staples such as Who's Next (1971); as well as dozens more that appeared as non-album singles, bonus tracks on reissues, and tracks on rarities compilation albums such as Odds & Sods (1974). He has also written more than 100 songs that have appeared on his solo albums, as well as radio jingles and television theme songs.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pete Townshend” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.