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Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend (/ ˈ t aʊ n z ən d /; born 19 May 1945) is an English musician.He is the co-founder, guitarist, second lead vocalist and principal songwriter of the Who, one of the most influential rock bands of the 1960s and 1970s.
All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes is the fourth solo studio album by English rock musician Pete Townshend, released on 14 June 1982 by Atco Records. Chris Thomas produced the album (who had also produced Townshend's previous studio album, Empty Glass) and it was recorded by Bill Price at three separate recording studios in London, England, which were Eel Pie, AIR and Wessex.
The band tour again in 1996, [15] with an expanded band, consisting of, John "Rabbit" Bundrick on keyboards, Zak Starkey on drums, Simon Townshend on second guitar, Jon Carin on keyboards Jody Linscott on percussion, Dennis Farias, Nick Lane and Roy Wiegand on horns, Simon Gardner on trumpet, Neil Sidwell on trombone, and Billy Nicholls on ...
Cliff and Betty Townshend's second son, Paul Townshend, was born in 1957, and the family moved to a larger flat in Ealing Common. In the same year, Townshend took his son Pete to see the film Rock Around the Clock with Bill Haley, and then to a live Bill Haley concert at the Regal Cinema at Marble Arch. Townshend thought the music "had some swing."
The following is the solo discography of British rock musician and recording artist Pete Townshend. Townshend's career as a published musician and songwriter began in 1964 as a member of rock band the Who , before branching out as a solo artist in the 1970s.
"Love on the Air" is a song by Pink Floyd's guitarist, David Gilmour. The track was released as the second single from his second solo studio album About Face (1984). [1]The lyrics to the track were written by the Who's main songwriter Pete Townshend, and the music was by Gilmour himself. [1]
"Tattoo" is a song written by Pete Townshend that was first released by the British rock band The Who on their 1967 album The Who Sell Out.A "rite of passage" song, "Tattoo" tells the story of two teenaged brothers who decide to get tattoos in their attempts to become men.
A music video for "Rough Boys" was also created, featuring Townshend in a pool room with other men. The video was the 122nd video shown on MTV. Also some clips from the video appeared on one of their promos on the channel's debut on August 1, 1981. "Rough Boys" has generally been praised as one of Pete Townshend's greatest solo efforts.