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Pete Townshend Online

Jason Gross, Yahoo! Internet Life, April 2000

2003 NOTE: WHILE IT'S commonplace now for artists to put their material up for fans to preview, it wasn't three years ago, which should show you how quickly things evolve. Townshend realized the power of the Net as a communication tool, as a means of communicating with fans and getting out his music as he (or any other artist) could never do before the online world existed.

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