Playboy Interview: Pete Townshend
February, 1994
In a row house in a working-class London neighborhood 40 years ago, a young boy was given a clarinet by his father. The boy failed miserably on the instrument. Had he succeeded, he might never have tried the guitar few years later, and we might still he listening to Paul Anka, wearing butch was hairdos and believing everything our parents and politicians told us. The boy was Pete Townshend, and he has had as much to do with hard, pure, angry, irreverent, loud rock and roll--and all that it wroug...
