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I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.'

Pete Townshend

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Pete Townshend
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: May 19
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London
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I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.
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The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.
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All good art cannot help but confront denial on its way to truth.
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I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And I won't be classified as just a man.
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Good old Pete. That's me. But I find it hard to think of myself in the first person when I'm writing about The Who. So many times he has willingly sat down to write about the good old Who. Isn't he too old to masturbate?
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The fact of the matter is, I'm f**king brilliant. Not 'was' brilliant. 'Am' brilliant.
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Tough boys running the streets, come a little closer. Rough toys under the sheets, nobody knows her.
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