Read Who I Am: A Memoir Online
Authors: Pete Townshend
On my whirlwind Indian trip, spring 1972, I played ‘Drowned’ for the first time in public.
Playing with the new Who, Madison Square Garden, September 1979. (Neal Preston/Corbis)
Minta and Emma at home in Twickenham, 1973.
With Karen, Emma and Minta in Goring, 1971. (Chris Morphet)
With my son Joseph, early 1990s.
With Sexton the Bull. Me, Robert Fox, Ted Hughes, Matthew Evans, 1987.
Chris Stamp and Nik Cohn brainstorming at Track’s Wardour Street offices, September 1971.
Lisa Marsh with our mutual friend Heather Reilly, 1993. (Robert Kirk)
I met the Scrabble hustler Louise Reay at the Embassy Club in 1981 and never won a game against her.
The Live Aid finale, 13 July 1985. David Bowie, Alison Moyet, me, Bob Geldof, Paul McCartney. (Neal Preston/Corbis)
In Osaka on our first Japanese tour, 2004. (Matt Kent)
Recording the cast album of
Tommy
with George Martin (sitting) and Des McAnuff (centre right), in 1993. (RCA Victor publicity shot)
Mobbed by fans outside the Beacon Theatre in New York during the
Psychoderelict
US tour, 12 July 1993. (Robert Kirk)
Brothers in arms: Roger and me at our intimate Indigo show, December 2008. (Gary and Melissa Hurley)