Pete Townshend
Stuart Grundy, John Tobler, The Guitar Greats (BBC Books), 1983
PETE TOWNSHEND NEEDS little introduction he is, although he would perhaps reject the term, a celebrity. Pete was born on 19 May 1945, in London, to a musical family his father was a musician, of which Pete was very proud and he enjoyed going to see his father play.
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