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The facts don't always reveal the truth, but the truth always reveals the facts.
Pete Townshend
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Pete Townshend
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: May 19
Banjoist
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Guitarist
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Screenwriter
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Singer-Songwriter
London
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Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend
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