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Townshend was born in Chiswick, West London, at the Chiswick Hospital, Netheravon Road, in the UK.He came from a musical family: his father, Cliff Townshend, was a professional alto saxophonist in the Royal Air Force's dance band the Squadronaires and his mother, Betty (née Dennis), was a singer with the Sidney Torch and Les Douglass Orchestras.
Emma Townshend (born 28 March 1969) is an English writer and journalist, and the elder daughter of The Who's Pete Townshend. She has previously worked as an academic, a musician and in adult education, but since 2006 has been the Independent on Sunday ’s garden columnist.
Townshend was born in Chiswick, London, the same area and town where older brother Pete Townshend was born. He grew up into a musical family. He was the youngest of three sons born to Cliff Townshend, a professional saxophonist in The Squadronaires, and his wife, Betty Townshend (née Dennis), who had an early career as a singer.
According to Who guitarist Pete Townshend’s memoir, “Who I Am,” he wanted the group to call itself the Hair, but on Valentine’s Day of 1964, he relented, and the band settled on the Who ...
The only thing less likely than Thunderclap Newman, the strange band masterminded by Pete Townshend in 1969, having a No. 1 single is the notion that a 400-plus page history of them would be ...
Townshend, Townend, Thounhende, Tonsend, Touunend, Tounende, Touunsende, Towneend, Townsende, Townesende, Townesend, Tunsend. Townsend is a topographic surname of Yorkshire and Norfolk origin, indicating residence at the extremity of a city or burgh (from Middle English touun "village", "hamlet", "stead" + ende "end".)
Pete Townshend in New York City on June 16, 2024, Oasis in London on March 26, 2003. The Who's Pete Townshend didn't snag a ticket for the Oasis reunion either, but it's not for the reason you think.
Pete Townshend attended Ealing Art College in west London (pictured in 2010), and his experience there contributed to the Who's career.. The founding members of the Who, Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend and John Entwistle, grew up in Acton, London and attended Acton County Grammar School. [4]