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We are musicians, entertainers. We can do it. We have the right tools. No worries.
Pete Townshend
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Pete Townshend
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: May 19
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London
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Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend
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As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic.
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People try to put us down (Talkin' 'bout my generation) Just because we get around (Talkin' 'bout my generation) Things they do look awful c-c-cold (Talkin' 'bout my generation) Hope I die before I get old.
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I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.
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