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I see a boy with his mother's ambition, performing for love, trained in submission.

Pete Townshend

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Pete Townshend
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: May 19
Banjoist
Composer
Guitarist
Mandolinist
Musician
Screenwriter
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
London
England
Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend
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Submission
Trained
Performing
Ambition
Boys
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Love

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