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It's sad when people break up.
Pete Townshend
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Pete Townshend
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: May 19
Banjoist
Composer
Guitarist
Mandolinist
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Screenwriter
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Singer-Songwriter
London
England
Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend
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