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I played the guitar for ten years before I realized it wasn't a weapon.

Pete Townshend

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