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Pete Townshend Biography
Pete Townshend is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is well known as the principal songwriter, lead guitarist and backing vocalist for the rock band The Who.
He studied at Acton County Grammar School, in 1961, he joined Ealing Art College to study graphic design, he studied with future Rolling Stones band guitarist, Ronnie Wood and Queen band lead singer, Freddie Mercury. In 1964, he dropped out of school to focus on music full-time.
Pete Townshend Age
Pete Townshend Family
He is from a musical family, his father, Cliff Townshend, was a professional alto saxophonist in the Royal Air Force’s dance band The Squadronaires and his mother, Betty née Dennis, was a singer with the Sydney Torch and Les Douglass Orchestras. His maternal grandmother is Emma Dennis, whom he once lived with after the separation of his parents for two years before they again reunited. He has two younger brothers, Paul born in 1957 and Simon born in 1960.
Pete Townshend Wife
He met Karen Astley in art school, a daughter of film composer Edwin Astley. The couple tied their knot on 20 May 1968. They then moved to Twickenham in outer south-west London into a three-bedroom townhouse. The couple separated in 1994 and divorced in 2009. He is now married to Rachel Fuller, an arranger, and musician. The couple married in December 2016, after a long relationship of over twenty years.
Pete Townshend Children
From his first marriage with Karen Astley, he has three children; gardening columnist Emma, born in 1969, Aminta born in 1971, works in film production, and Joseph born in 1990, who studied graphic design at Central St. Martins.
Pete Townshend Body Measurements
Height: 5′ 11¾” (1.82) Weight: 1.83 m Shoe Size: Not Available Body Shape: Not Available Hair Colour: White
Pete Townshend Net Worth
The award-winning musician, Townshend, has an estimated net worth of $115 million which he has earned through his successful career as a musician, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.
Pete Townshend The Who
He’s the Who’s leading songwriter, he’s written over 100 songs for the band’s 11 studio albums, including rock operas Tommy and Quadrophenia, and concept albums, along with popular rock radio classics including Who’s Next, and hundreds more that appeared as bonus tracks on reissues, non-album singles, and tracks on rare compilations including 1974’s Odds & Sods.
He has also recorded over 100 songs on his solo albums, as well as jingles on radio and theme songs on television. He plays piano, harmonica, banjo, accordion, synthesizer, mandolin, violin, ukulele, bass guitar, and drums on his own solo albums, on some Who records, and as a guest contributor to the line-ups of the recordings of other musicians. He teaches himself all the instruments.
He won the Brit Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1983, was named to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Who in 1990, was given a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award as a member of the Who in 2001, and in 2008 was awarded Kennedy Center Honours. Both won the George and Ira Gershwin Award for Lifetime Musical Achievement at UCLA together with Daltrey on May 21, 2016.
Pete Townshend Songs
Baba O’RileyBehind Blue EyesLet My Love Open the DoorPinball WizardEminence FrontWon’t Get Fooled AgainRough BoysSlit SkirtsMagic BusMy GenerationGive BloodA Little Is EnoughI Can’t ExplainWhite City FightingI Can See for MilesFace the FaceWho Are YouMy WifeSubstitutePure & EasyThe Sea Refuses No RiverThe Real MeSqueeze BoxI’m OneA Quick One While He’s AwayJoin TogetherSummertime BluesHappy JackLet’s See ActionSecondhand LoveMy Baby Gives It Away
Peter Townshend Albums
Empty GlassAll the Best Cowboys Have Chinese EyesWhite City: A NovelWho Came FirstRough MixPsychoderelictQuadropheniaDeep End Live!The Iron Man: The Musical by Pete TownshendLive at LeedsWho Are YouA Benefit for Maryville AcademyWho’s NextLive: The FillmoreThe Oceanic ConcertsLive: Sadler’s WellsLive: The EmpireThe Genuine ScoopParvardigar PrayerPete Townshend Live BAM 1993Live: La Jolla Playhouse 2001I AmThe Who Sell OutThe Who by NumbersIt’s HardTommyLifehouse ChroniclesScoopAnother ScoopScoop 3Lifehouse ElementsThe Best of Pete TownshendScoopedTruancy: The Very Best of Pete TownshendThe Definitive CollectionJai BabaO’ ParvardigarAnthologyGreatest HitsMagic Bus: The Who on TourChimes of Freedom
Peter Townshend Book
Horse’s NeckThe Who Rock Score: Five Classic Songs by the Who, Scored for Small Groups, Complete with LyricsTommy: The MusicalLifehouseWho I AmBehind Blue Eyes: For a Minimum of Five Steel Drums, Drumset, and Optional Bass Guitar, Conductor Score & PartsLet My Love Open the Door: For a Minimum of Five Steel Drums, Drumset, and Optional Bass Guitar, Conductor Score &PartsThe WhoUntitled Novel
Pete Townshend The Who Quotes
The bad part about growing older is I’m going bald. The good part is my nose seems to be getting shorter.I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called ‘rock and roll.’I’ve learned a huge amount because I’ve been tested and, more importantly, I’ve been trusted.It’s an ordinary day for Brian. Like, he died every day, you know.Keith Moon is not interested in jazz and won’t ever be a jazz drummer because he’s more interested in looking good and being screamed at.When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.In order to have faith, or follow any other organized religion, I’d have to suspend a degree of disbelief.I don’t view the fans in the way that most performers do. As a mass of people who have paid money, I know what they want. It’s a very, very, very, very, very low common denominator.If I told you what it takes to reach the highest high you’d laugh and say nothing that simple, but you’ve been told many times before messiah’s point you to the door though no one’s got the guts to leave the temple.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.
Frequently Asked Questions About Pete Townshend
Who is Townshend?
Townshend is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist.
How old is Townshend?
He is 74 years old as of 2019. He was born in 1945.
How tall is Townshend?
He stands at a height of 5′ 11¾”
Is Pete Townshend married?
He is married to Rachel Fuller.
How much is Pete Townshend worth?
He has an accomplished musician with an estimated net worth of $115 million.
How much does Pete Townshend make?
His salary is still under review.
Where does Pete Townshend live?
He is a resident of Richmond upon Thames, London, England, we shall upload pictures of his house as soon as we have them.
Is Pete Townshend dead or alive?
Where is Pete Townshend now?
He is pursuing his career in music.
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