Pete Townshend

This was a cover shot for Melody Maker. The headline was "The Punk and the Godfather", Paul (The Jam) the epitomy of mod boy elegance and Pete (The Who) the old rocker outside the Marquee Club... read more on Wardour Street.

Taken in my Soho studio, for an article Pete Townshend was doing on the Musicians Union and the problems he and other bands were having performing live on T.V. with miming, backing tracks, studio musicians,... read more sound engineers and producers. Pete wrote a semi-regular page for the Melody Maker and apart from being a great writer he’d come up with some great ’visual’ ideas for us to have fun with.

Pete Townshend throws his guitar live at Madison Square Gardens in the US, 1979. 

Pete Townshend live on stage at the Lyceum in the Strand.

Pete Townshend in the studio. Pete came 3 times. He was very interested in photography as an art form. I originally met him via my father who was the dentist of their manager Kit Lambert and suggested... read more to Kit that I do a studio photo of the Who. But I could never get them together. But Pete suggested that I come and take photos on the set of Tommy and come to the recording studio. He was totally unegotistical and he took a genuine interest in my work.

Pete Townshend in the studio. Pete came 3 times. He was very interested in photography as an art form. I originally met him via my father who was the dentist of their manager Kit Lambert and suggested... read more to Kit that I do a studio photo of the Who. But I could never get them together. But Pete suggested that I come and take photos on the set of Tommy and come to the recording studio. He was totally unegotistical and he took a genuine interest in my work.

Pete Townshend in the studio. Pete came 3 times. He was very interested in photography as an art form. I originally met him via my father who was the dentist of their manager Kit Lambert and suggested... read more to Kit that I do a studio photo of the Who. But I could never get them together. But Pete suggested that I come and take photos on the set of Tommy and come to the recording studio. He was totally unegotistical and he took a genuine interest in my work.

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