Who Are You . . . Pete Townshend?

Pete Towshend as a Child This week on CBS Sunday Morning, Anthony Mason interviewed Pete Townshend, who opened up about his childhood, the criminal charges that almost ended his career, and his relationship with Roger Daltrey. It was a very incisive interview with the Who musician that among other things, saw Townshend contemplating how his own very troubled childhood inspired the rock opera Tommy.

Although I had already heard the story about how Townshend adopted his trademark windmill style of guitar playing from a misunderstanding about The Rolling Stones, it is such a great story that it is always worth hearing him tell it again. Check out this short but unusually insightful rock star TV interview.



What do you think of the interview? Leave your two cents in the comments.

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