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4 unusual facts about Pete Townshend


I'm the Answer

The song and single "I'm the Answer" features Pete Townshend singing backing vocals, There were a couple of singles lifted from the album "So Real" and "I'm the Answer" both got little Album-oriented rock radio play the track "I'm the Answer" was the only song to feature a music video, the music video was played on MTV and Simon Townshend was Interviewed with Pete Townshend about the album of which MTV wrongly said the artist of the song was "Peter Townshend".

Navona Records

In January 2012, Navona Records will release Method Music, a double album consisting of electronic music created by Lawrence Ball and produced by Pete Townshend and Bob Lord.

Peter Townend

Pete Townshend (born 1945), British rock guitarist of the band The Who

Rock Is Dead—Long Live Rock!

In the liner notes for the Who's 1974 rarities collection Odds & Sods, guitarist and lead songwriter Pete Townshend said, "I had an idea once for a new album about the history of The Who called Rock Is Dead—Long Live Rock. That idea later blossomed into Quadrophenia." The sessions for the album spanned from 19 May to 6 June at Olympic Studios in London.


Beloved God Prayer

Pete Townshend of The Who, a follower of Meher Baba, used this simile in his song Don't Let Go the Coat, the second track on The Who's 1981 Face Dances album.

Bill Kreutzmann

Already having worked on numerous projects with Pete Townshend, he is the chief cameraman for Townshend's partner Rachel Fuller.

Boilersuit

And for fans of popular music, Pete Townshend of The Who frequently wore a white boiler suit during performances and in publicity photographs during the early 1970s.

Caleb Quaye

Quaye played guitar, bass and percussion on "Forever's No Time At All", which opened I Am, a 1972 album dedicated to Meher Baba also featuring Pete Townshend.

Classic Albums: The Who – Who's Next

It features various interviews with the surviving members of the band Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, and John Entwistle noted writers, including Dave Marsh.

Colin Welford

After touring the US as Associate Conductor of the 1st National Tours of The Will Rogers Follies (Dir. Tommy Tune), and The Who's Tommy (Dir. Des McAnuff), he was hired by Pete Townshend of the legendary UK rock band The Who as Music Director/Conductor (and later, Music Supervisor) of the Broadway-originated musical The Who's Tommy in the UK and Europe.

David Measham

Measham worked as a conductor with non-classical artists such as the saxophonist Ornette Coleman (The Skies Of America, 1972), Pete Townshend (Tommy, 1972), Neil Young (Harvest, 1972) and on a full orchestral version of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Empty Glass

This concept was derived from the work of the Persian poet Hafiz, which Pete Townshend became interested in from his involvement with Avatar, Meher Baba.

Empty Glass was released in 1980 as the first Pete Townshend solo album (Who Came First was a collection of demo recordings and Meher Baba-inspired songs, while Rough Mix was written and recorded with Ronnie Lane) and was his most successful.

H.E.A.R.

The initial funding for the organization's formation was provided by guitarist and songwriter for The Who, Pete Townshend, who also suffers from tinnitus as a result of loud volumes at Who concerts, and a particular incident during a live performance of My Generation, when drummer Keith Moon set off some explosives inside his drum kit right next to Townshend.

Jaz Lochrie

He has played variously in his career live or recording with Pete Townshend, Bad Company, Slash, Paul Rodgers, Roger Daltrey, Joe Satriani, British Rock Symphony, Yngwie Malmsteen, Gary Brooker, Zakk Wylde and many more.

Joe Purdy

Purdy’s appearance at the Wireless Festival in Leeds led to a special request from The Who member Pete Townshend and his girlfriend Rachel Fuller to play with them at their acoustic In the Attic Series shows.

Jolyon Dixon

As a producer/mixer, Dixon has worked on many releases, and as a session guitarist he has worked alongside producers such as John Leckie, Chris Thomas, Vic Coppersmith-Heaven, Craig Leon, Neil Perry and Pete Townshend.

Left for Live

It was said that Entwistle wanted to play this song instead of Won't Get Fooled Again at Live Aid with The Who but Pete Townshend disagreed so Entwistle wanted to record his own version instead as a tribute to Moon.

Lilian Baylis

Pete Townshend asserted that it was an old photograph of Lilian Baylis that inspired the song Pictures of Lily by the English pop group The Who.

Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy

It was compiled by Pete Townshend over objection by manager Kit Lambert, who tried to have the track order changed but failed because too many copies had already been pressed.

Nicola Emmanuelle

This led to numerous musical and film collaborations in the late eighties notably with the BBC, singing on Death is Part of the Process, then with Pete Townshend on his The Iron Man Musical album and with Phil Fearon of Galaxy where she branched into pop music with the club classic Touch.

P-90

This new pickup, occasionally named PAF, very quickly took over as the preferred choice for all Gibson models, relegating the P-90 to budget models such as the ES-330, the Les Paul Junior and Special, and the SG Junior and Special, such as those used by Pete Townshend and Carlos Santana.

Philip Burke

In 2002, Burke's passion for rock and roll was ensconced in an eight foot guitar on which he depicted Pete Townshend on one side and Shirley Manson on the other.

Terry Riley

Riley's famous overdubbed electronic album A Rainbow in Curved Air (recorded 1968, released 1969) inspired many later developments in electronic music, including Pete Townshend's synthesizer parts on The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again" and "Baba O'Riley", the latter named in tribute to Riley as well as to Meher Baba.

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown

Produced by The Who's manager Kit Lambert, and executive-produced by Pete Townshend on Track Records, the label begun by Lambert and Chris Stamp, it spun off an equally surprising hit single, "Fire", and contained a version of "I Put a Spell on You" by Screaming Jay Hawkins, a similarly bizarre showman.


see also

Bob Pridden

Pridden grew up only a few miles from the west London neighbourhoods in which Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey and John Entwistle lived.

Edwin Astley

In 1977, Astley wrote the orchestral score for Street in the City, a song contained in the Pete Townshend and Ronnie Lane's album Rough Mix.

The Who's musical equipment

In 1965, Pete Townshend and John Entwistle were directly responsible for the creation and widespread use of Marshall amplifiers powering stacked speaker cabinets.

Wick House

The Wick, Richmond, Surrey, currently owned by Pete Townshend