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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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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 19 May 1945
- Works
- 19
Top works
- Love Letter to Europe
- Tommy At 50
- Who
- Pete Townshend
- The Age of Anxiety
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1945-05-19
Discography
- Happy Birthday1970
- I Am1972
- Who Came First1972
- With Love1976
- Rough Mix1977
- Empty Glass1980
- All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes1982
- White City: A Novel1985
- The Iron Man1989
- Psychoderelict1993
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 358,065
- Total plays
- 3,699,956
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Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend (born 19 May 1945 in Chiswick, London), is an English rock guitarist, singer-songwriter, composer, and writer, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for 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 rock era, in addition to being "possibly the greatest live band ever." <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Pete+Tow
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change
· 2013 · cited 9,639x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
· 2016 · cited 5,699x
- The climate hazards infrared precipitation with stations—a new environmental record for monitoring extremes
· 2015 · cited 5,311x
- Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
· 2016 · cited 5,082x
- Habitat fragmentation and its lasting impact on Earth’s ecosystems
· 2015 · cited 3,973x
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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.
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