The Who: Who Needs To Take Pop Seriously? Asks Pete Townshend
Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 30 December 1967
PETE TOWNSHEND is as unpredictable as a badly made Roman candle. He fizzes and spurts, showers light and occasionally explodes.
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