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	pete townshend - (who he?)
		DSB still has a great voice (and I can assure you the conditions at Glasto were awful for her and her orchestra on stage as well as off).
		It is significant that Peter Paphides in his Times review mentioned two female performers, of widely different ages, conquering the festival.
		We won't go into which male performers conquered, at least not again, but in essence he was right.
	www.petetownshend-whohe.blogspot.com (1627 words)

	tommy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The opera was composed by Who guitarist Peter Townshend, with two tracks contributed by Who bassist John Entwistle and one fictitiously attributed to Who drummer Keith Moon, though actually written by Townshend.
		Townshend mixes fingerpicking in with his trademark power chords and fat riffs, and in some delicate moments his guitar sounds almost like a harpsichord.
		Townshend's later interest in synthesizers is foreshadowed by the use of taped sounds played in reverse to give a whistling, chirping sound on "Amazing Journey"; on the same track the background singers imitate the sound of seagulls.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Tommy.html (1459 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - Pete Townshend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Born Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend in London, he played banjo and guitar with various bands in the early 1960s before joining the group that would become The Who.
		Townshend has also published a book of short stories, Horse’s Neck (1985), and the play Lifehouse (2001), which was originally begun in the early 1970s as a multimedia sequel to Tommy.
		Townshend said he had only visited child pornography sites on the Internet to do research for his autobiography, maintaining that he believed he had been sexually abused as a boy.
	encarta.msn.com /text_762507280__1/Pete_Townshend.html (318 words)

	injusticebusters 2003 > > Pete Townshend latest victim of porn police witchhunt
		Townshend has acknowledged using an Internet Web site advertising child pornography, but said he was not a pedophile and was only doing research for an autobiography dealing with his own suspected childhood sexual abuse.
		Townshend, unshaven and wearing a fl jacket, left his house by a side entrance at 7:20 p.m., about four hours after police arrived, and was driven away.
		Townshend's friend, the model Jerry Hall, said Sunday he was an ``avid supporter'' of child welfare groups and had spoken at length about the dangers of child pornography on the Internet.
	www.injusticebusters.com /2003/townshend.htm (1852 words)

	Pete Townshend: Behind Chinese Eyes: 1982 Interview Part 2
		Peter looks positively natty in a smart blue blazer and slacks, his wife Karen a vision of warmth and elegance beside him.
		TOWNSHEND: I prefer to take a different stance; I think the Human League are very interesting because they're a summation of a lot of different loose ends, which they've managed to gather up with the help of a very brilliant producer, Martin Rushent.
		TOWNSHEND: Yeah, that was, because we were using the same producer as the Kinks at the time and we were trying to get him more interested in us.
	snow.prohosting.com /crasio/townshend/Musician8209.html (6605 words)

	Tommy -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Musically the original album is a complex set of pop-rock arrangements, generally based upon Townshend's acoustic guitar and built up with many overdubs by the four members of the band using many instruments, including bass, electric and acoustic guitars, piano, organ, drumkit, gong, horn, three-part vocal harmonies and occasional doubling on vocal solos.
		A couple of years before the album came out Peter Townshend explained his ideas and apparently actually thought out some of the structure of the opera during a famous (Click link for more info and facts about Rolling Stone) Rolling Stone interview.
		John Entwistle claimed years after the release that he had never actually listened to the album because he was so sick of it after the endless (The act of photographing a scene or part of a scene without interruption) takes and re-takes.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/to/tommy.htm (1425 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts features \| Sean O'Hagan meets Pete Townshend
		Perhaps Townshend, then, is thinking of a case at Southwark Crown Court in 1998, in which the judge made it clear what constituted possession: that you were in possession of child pornography not just if you actively downloaded it, but if it appeared on your computer screen at all.
		Townshend seems to have thought that by viewing, but not downloading, he was not breaking the law.
		Townshend says that he had seen a documentary about a Russian boy adopted by an American family in early 1999, and had rung the the filmmaker, Ethan Silverman, and said: 'I want to do something on these Russian orphanages.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/features/story/0,11710,1113799,00.html (3890 words)

	Pete Townshend: Behind Chinese Eyes: 1982 Interview Part 1
		But the reborn Pete Townshend still thrives on contradictions: he is the original Brit Rebel- doesn't believe in revolution, the angry young artist excoriating the establishment- then hangs out with aristocracy and claims the only way to change things is by joining the infrastructure.
		Townshend's professed passion of the moment is for politics- specifically, his voice is raised in anger and bitterness as he speaks of his responsibility as a public figure to speak out against the nuclear arms race.
		Townshend is the first to admit that the Who have been a relatively ineffective medium over the last few years.
	snow.prohosting.com /crasio/townshend/Musician8208.html (6918 words)

	Townshend Family Overview
		We believe his father may have been a Richard Townshend or that this Richard was connected to him in some way as we have found a portrait of a Richard.
		Peter Stewart TOWNSHEND was born on 29 Jan 1798.
		Flora TOWNSHEND was born in 1853 in Middlesex,London,England,UK..
	www.islandregister.com /townshend_o.html (1550 words)

	The Smoking Gun: Archive
		Townshend was nabbed in January on suspicion of possessing indecent images of children, though no such photos were found following a search of his home and computer.
		At the time of his arrest, Townshend admitted using his credit card to visit a web site offering child porn, but told cops he was just conducting research.
		Townshend claimed that he reached for his telephone and "intended to call the police and take them through the process I had stumbled upon--and bring the pornographers involved to [jail]," but that he decided not to contact authorities after discussing the issue with an attorney.
	www.thesmokinggun.com /archive/petetownshend1.html (244 words)

	RollingStone.com: Pete Townshend : Pete Townshend Set Free : News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Townshend, 57, was arrested yesterday afternoon under suspicion of possessing indecent images of children and incitement to distribute them.
		Townshend has admitted to looking at child pornography on the Web but maintains he was doing research for an autobiography.
		Townshend positioned himself as an avid opponent of child pornography and pedophilia caught in a misunderstanding, saying, "I am not a pedophile.
	www.rollingstone.com /news/story/_/id/5934630 (362 words)

	Concerned Women for America - Rock Legend’s Arrest is Tip of Child Porn Iceberg
		Rock legend Peter Townshend, 57, was arrested by Scotland Yard detectives on charges of making, possessing and incitement to distribute “indecent images of children.” The arrest occurred while police executed search warrants on his mansion.
		Townshend is lead guitarist and composer with The Who rock group, which he helped form in the ’60s.
		Townshend, who denies that he is a pedophile, has admitted to using his credit card on the “Candyman” Web site but says that he didn’t download any images.
	cwfa.org /articledisplay.asp?id=3067&dep<br>artment=CFI&... (623 words)

	Sound Magazine '75 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Townshend was able to forget that the original project had been a joke.
		Townshend had written the score under the influence of the psychedelic, drug-oriented music of the day; consequently its plot left more to the imagination than would the subsequent rock opera, Jesus Christ, Superstar.
		However, Russell, as Townshend recalls, reported that "he was very interested in the idea but that, since he was so busy with other projects, he wouldn't be able to even think about doing it for two or three years.
	kathy.hispeed.com /sound75.html (1694 words)

	Robert Christgau: Virtual Hep: Peter Townshend, Donald Fagen, Billy Idol
		But for Townshend, Fagen, and even Idol, virtual reality is simply another place where a guy finds himself struggling for, over, or with authenticity, a rock obsession they've always kept at arm's length and never escaped.
		It's long been evident that what turned Townshend on about pop art was the art rather than the pop--he didn't want to drag opera down to rock's level, he wanted to raise rock to opera's.
		Every tired Townshend tic--the "great artist," the omnipotent press, jeeze--is not only fictionalized (Townshend doesn't call himself a great artist, Ray High does) but undercut by Townshend's kindly, self-deprecating insistence that his seriousness is a joke.
	www.robertchristgau.com /xg/rock/cyberpun-93.php (1436 words)

	Movie Tommy Review
		Tommy's creator, Peter Townshend, believes he himself was sexually abused and that TOMMY was an expression of his unconscious trauma.
		Townshend, who wrote the band's best-known lyric, "Hope I die before I get old," and always described himself as "cutting edge." Now, the artist whose guitar-smashing antics became legendary is scrambling to defend his online activities.
		Townshend has been criticized by those who say that even if his motives were well-intentioned, he may not be spared from justice.
	www.orwelltoday.com /movietommy.shtml (1313 words)

	The Uncool - Cameron Crowe Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Townshend, known as "the Birdman" because of the way he spun his arms in the air and across the guitar strings, began demolishing guitars onstage.
		Townshend insists that Quadrophenia will be his last work to be preoccupied by teen turbulence, but don't bet on it.
		Townshend: Yeah, I wrote a couple of songs in a period where people were writing extensive analysis of my character and stuff like this.
	www.cameroncroweonline.com /writtenby/townshendpenthouse.htm (6946 words)

	Sustainable Agriculture Tour -- Profile of Peter Townshend
		If you get a chance to tour Peter Townshend's potato farm in Rollo Bay you'll see right away why he and his farm won the Soil Conservationist Award from the PEI Soil and Crop Improvement Association in 1997.
		Growing potatoes since 1974, it was in the mid 80s when Townshend decided if he wanted to maintain his success he better start taking care of the soil.
		Townshend's potato farm has one thousand acres of land for production but actually only keeps about four hundred acres in potatoes each year.
	www.peisland.com /agrtour/townshend.html (690 words)

	Hartford Advocate: Behind Blue Eyes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Pete Townshend is and always has been a deeply conflicted man. Now his fans are deeply conflicted about his arrest, just as we were about the institutionalizing of pedophilia by the largest Christian denomination on the planet.
		The woman, it turns out, had been sexually abused by her father; and her suicide was the endgame of a long struggle against a flood of guilt, shame and loathing.
		Since writing that piece, Townshend had been researching this predatory underworld in an effort to stop sex abuse of children, he says, not perpetrate it.
	hartfordadvocate.com /gbase/News/content.html?oid=oid:1276 (821 words)

	Tommy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		As other adaptations of the album appeared, some details were filled in and others changed (for example the timeframe was changed to World War II and 1951 in some later versions and in the film version, the lover kills the husband rather than the converse).
		John Entwistle claimed years after the release that he had never actually listened to the album because he was so sick of it after the endless takes and re-takes.
		All songs written by Pete Townshend except for tracks 8 and 12 written by John Entwistle, track 23 credited to Keith Moon (which Townshend actually composed and wrote, but Moon supplied the holiday camp setting) and track 6 originally written by Sonny Boy Williamson II.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/T/Tommy.htm (1657 words)

	Townshend Psychoderelict & Tommy Original Cast Recording
		Peter Townshend returns to the musical spotlight once more with the all but simultaneous release of his first solo album in four years, and a new original cast recording of the recent Broadway production of the Who's 1969 rock opera,Tommy.
		After reading, hearing and seeing a few, I've come to this conclusion: as Townshend grows older, it's increasingly apparent that he's turning into one of the saddest entities in the Rock'n'Roll circus.
		A 25th Anniversary live album featuring Townshend, Daltry, Entwhistle and a few special guest performers was the next adulteration.
	home.gwi.net /~drrknrl/reviews/PtTom.html (583 words)

	Pete Townshend to be 'given a caution' \| This is London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Rock star Pete Townshend will not be prosecuted for possessing child pornography, it was reported today.
		The Who guitarist, 57, is expected to get a formal police caution, after insisting he accessed a child porn website as part of a research project into the horrors of the paedophile trade.
		Townshend's credit-card details had appeared among 7,272 names handed to police by the US Postal Inspection Service.
	www.thisislondon.com /news/articles/3742635?source=EveningStandard (141 words)

	Robert Christgau: CG: Artist 3941
		Townshend sounds as relaxed in this rather folkish Meher Baba tribute cum "gynormouse ego trip" as Paul McCartney in his do-it-yourself studio, and a lot less self-absorbed--other musical gurumongers sound "Content" (title of worst song here), but Pete seems happy, too.
		Townshend has said the only reason this isn't a Who record is that it wasn't time for a Who record, which must be his oblique way of apologizing for not being able to sing like Roger Daltrey.
		In 1982, at 37, Townshend has somehow managed to conceive, record, and release a confessional song suite the pretentiousness of which could barely be imagined by an acid-damaged Bard drama major.
	www.robertchristgau.com /get_artist2.php?id=3941 (615 words)

	Pete's Lyrics & Albums
		In March of 96 Tommy hit London's West End,
		And Townshend's "Best Of" CD came out that same year.
		In 1998 Pete plays at the "Day In The Garden" Festival in New York.
	www.wdkeller.com /index17.htm (174 words)

	And Now You've Gotta Stand Trial
		One thing that's been bothering me, having read Townshend's carefully worded (if less fastidiously edited) statement is how sloppy some of the "Reporting" has been.
		Pete Townshend is a serious writer, not just of rock songs, but also of essays and short stories.
		I'm naturally inclined to want to believe Pete Townshend and, while much of this is troubling, his version of events seems more likely to me than any other interpretation in the absence of physical evidence.
	www.geocities.com /tedkane/pete.html (680 words)

	The 'Oo at the Freedom Palace
		The Who, a British rock group, featuring Peter Townshend, lead guitar; Roger Daltrey, vocal; Keith Moon, drums and John Entwistle, bass...for one performance at Freedom Palace.
		"Townshend was just hanging out on the couch waiting to go back on" Stern said.
		Townshend didn't spend all of his free time on the couch.
	www.fortunecity.com /meltingpot/nebraska/1386/whokc.htm (915 words)

	Keyword (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Townshend refused to let the Oscar-winning director use the song, because the rocker didn't enjoy Moore's previous films Bowling for Columbine and Roger and Me. Townshend fumes: "Michael Moore has been making some claims, using...
		Mr Townshend has admitted he gave his credit card details to see a child porn website, but insisted he had done so for research and was not a paedophile.
		Exclusive: Pete Townshend's Thoughts on Pedophilia The Who's Pete Townshend has been arrested in Britain for suspicion of making and possessing indecent images of children and of incitement to distribute indecent images of children, relating to research he claims to have been doing on the subject via the Internet.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/k-townshend/browse (1509 words)

	Quadrophenia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		"The story is set on a rock!" announced the composer, Peter Townshend, at one live performance.
		That remark seems to indicate that the opera represents Jimmy's looking back at the events of the previous day or two that led him into the gloomy situation where he finds himself at the end of the story.
		The lyrics to the song "The Punk and the Godfather" leave the impression that Townshend was aware of a musical rebellion called Punk as early as 1973, with a dual interpretation of punk:godfather::Peter Townshend:record company executives vs. punk:godfather::new generation of musicians:Peter Townshend.
	usapedia.com /q/quadrophenia.html (947 words)

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