Pete Townshend

Pete Townshend has been targeted by US child protection groups who want to prevent The Who guitarist from playing during the half-time show at February's Super Bowl…  

A plaque has gone up in the Railway Hotel, North London, where The Who's axeman Pete Townshend wrecked his first guitar in 1964... and if drummer Keith Moon stuck around, the guitar's probably not the only thing that got smashed in the pub!  

The venue where Pete Townshend first smashed a guitar has been listed as a historical building.  

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Accurate Let My Love Open The Door bass tab by Pete Townshend from Ultimate Guitar Archive. Direct URL to the tab: click  

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Child AbuseWatch Protests Pete Townshend as NFL Super Bowl entertainment Child AbuseWatch, the national child abuse prevention organization, today published an open letter to the National Football League and CBS. In the correspondence they asked the NFL to drop Pete Townshend from the Super Bowl half time entertainment line-up. The reason? Pete Townshend’s record as a sexual offender on the British Violent and Sex Offender Register (ViSOR...  

Just the week before Thanksgiving the NFL confirmed that they were hiring the British band the WHO for the February Super Bowl half-time event. While many have received the news with excitement, some child advocacy groups have met it with disbelief. You see, Pete Townshend was listed as a Sex Offender in the UK from 2003 to 2008. Despite two letters being sent to Roger Goodell and other members of NFL management asking that Pete Townshend be...  

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Child AbuseWatch Protests Pete Townshend as NFL Super Bowl XLIV Half-Time EntertainmentContributor: Evin DalyPublished: Nov 24, 2009  

Though the NFL hasn't confirmed it, rumor has it that The Who (or at least Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey, plus sidemen) will be this year's recipient of the "Classic Rock Act That Gets A Post Super Bowl Sales Boost" award. Sports Illustrated is citing sources that say Townshend and Daltrey have been asked to play the halftime show. If the deal gets done, what can we expect? A bunch of songs from the album Townshend and Daltrey are...  

It wasn't by immersing himself in a rock 'n' roll lifestyle that Pete Townshend was able to write the Who's first album - it was his love for the work of Henry Purcell.  

In other Who news, singer Roger Daltrey hd recently told Billboard.com during his solo tour that he and his Who bandmate Pete Townshend were working on new material to follow up their 2006 release "Endless Wire". "Hopefully if this tour has done it's ...  

According to Sports Illustrated, the surviving members of The Who are scheduled to perform the halftime show at Super Bowl XLIV February 7th in Miami. Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey's presence at the big event would continue the current theme of ...