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I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine.

Pete Townshend

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Pete Townshend
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: May 19
Banjoist
Composer
Guitarist
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Screenwriter
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
London
England
Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend
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