Pete Townshend Lyrics
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From the Album
1. Rough Boys
2. I Am An Animal
3. And I Moved
4. Let My Love Open The Door
5. Jools And Jim
6. Keep On Working
7. Cats In The Cupboard
8. A Little Is Enough
9. Empty Glass
10. Gonna Get Ya
Other Songs 971104 Arpeggio Piano A Fool Says A Friend Is A Friend A New Life / Reprise Affirmation After The Fire All Gods Mornings All Lovers Are Deranged All Shall Be Well Allan Cohen Speaks 1 Allan Cohen Speaks 2 Amazing Journey Annie Anyway Anyhow Anywhere April Fool Ask Yourself Awakening Baba Blues Baba M1 Baba M2 Baba M3 Baba M4 Baba M5 Baba ORiley Baby Don't You Do It Barefootin Bargain Baroque Ippanese Begin The Beguine Behind Blue Eyes Believe What You Say Big Boss Man Body Language Brilliant Blues Brooklyn Kids Brr Cache Cache Call Me Lightning Can You Help The One You Really Love? Can You Really Dance? Can You See The Real Me Cat Snatch CatMelody Christmas Circles Classified Collings Come To Mama Commonwealth Boys Communication Contact Content Cookin Corrina, Corrina Crashing By Design Dance it away Day Of Silence Day of Silence [*] Dialogue Introduction to Predictable Did You Steal My Money? Dig Dimples Dirty Jobs Dirty Water Dont Let Go Of The Coat Don't Let Go the Coat Dont Try To Make Me Real Dragon Driftin Blues Drowned Early Morning Dreams Elephants Eminence Front English Boy English Boy (Reprise) Epilogue Everywhere I Look This Morning Evolution Exquisitely Bored Eyesight To The Blind Face Dances Part Two Face Dances, Pt. 2 Face The Face Face To Face Fake It Fantasia Upon One Note Fast Food Fire Flame Football Fugue Forevers No Time At All Fortune Teller Freight Train Getting In Tune Girl In A Suitcase Give Blood Give It Up Goin Fishin Goin Mobile Gonna Get You Gotta Know Ya Greyhound Girl Had Enough Hail Avatar Meher Baba Happy Jack Heart To Hang Onto Hiding Out Hinterland Rag His Hands Holly Like Ivy How Can You Do It Alone? How To Transcend Duality And Influence People I Am Afraid I Am Secure I Believe My Own Eyes I Dont Even Know Myself I Don't Mind I Eat Heavy Metal I Like It The Way It Is I Put A Spell On You I Want That Thing I Wont Run Any More I'm One In My Time of Dyin' Initial Machine Experiments Iron Man Recitative Its In Ya Join Together Just For A Moment Keep Me Turning La La La Lies La-La-La-Lies Lantern Cabin Lets Get Pretentious Lets See Action Let's See Action (Nothing Is Everything) Life To Life Lonely Words Long live rock Love Aint For Keeping Love Hurts Love Reign Oer Me Magic Bus Man And Machines Man Machines Man Watching Marty Robbins Mary Mary Jane Maxims For Lunch Meditation Meher Meher Baba M3 Meher Baba M5 Meher Baba M5 [Vivaldi Regrooved] Melancholia Melancholla Misunderstood Music Must Change My Baby Gives It Away Never Ask Me New Life/Reprise New Song Night School No. 2 Giga No. 3 Adagio And Allegro No. 4 Aria No. 6 In D Minor No Face, No Name, No Number No Way Out North Country Girl Nothing Is Everything Now And Then Now and Then (Reprise) Nowhere To Run On The Road Again One Note Outlive The Dinosaur Over The Top Parvardigar Piano: Tipperary Pictures Of Lily Pinball Wizard Poem Disturbed Politician Popular Praying The Game Predictable Prelude Prelude 970519 Prelude The Right To Write Psycho Montage Pure And Easy Put The Money Down Real World Recorders Relay Rough Mix Sally Simpson Save It For Later Sea and Sand Secondhand Love Sheraton Gibson Sister Disco Sleeping Dog [*] Sleeping Dog [*] Slip Kid Slit Skirts So Sad About Us Somebody Saved Me Sonata K:212 Sonata K:213 Song Is Over Spoonful Squeeze Box Squirm Squirm Stardom In Action Stardom In Acton Stop Hurting People Street In The City Substitute Tattoo Teenage Wasteland Teresa The Ferryman The Gordion Knot Untied: Air The Gordion Knot Untied: Allegro The Gordion Knot Untied: Chaconne The Gordion Knot Untied: Jig The Gordion Knot Untied: Minuet The Gordion Knot Untied: Overture The Gordion Knot Untied: Overture [Reprise] The Gordion Knot Untied: Rondeau Minuet The Kids Are Alright The Love Man [*] The Love Man [*] The Magic Bus The Sea Refuses No River The Seeker [*] The Seeker [*] The Shout Theme 015 Theme 016 Theme 017 Theres A Heartache Following Me Things Have Changed This Song Is Green Three Steps to Heaven Till The Rivers All Run Dry Time Is Passing To Barney Kessel Too Much Of Any Thing Tough Boys Tragedy Tragedy Explained Uneasy Street [Bonus Track] Uniforms Uniforms (Corp d'Esprit) Untitled Unused Piano: Quadrophenia Variation On Dirty Jobs Vicious Interlude Was There Life White City White City Fighting Who Are You Wired To The Moon Wistful With A Smile Up His Nose They Entered Without Your Love Wont Get Fooled Again You Better You Bet You Came Back Youre So Clever Zelda
Other Songs 971104 Arpeggio Piano A Fool Says A Friend Is A Friend A New Life / Reprise Affirmation After The Fire All Gods Mornings All Lovers Are Deranged All Shall Be Well Allan Cohen Speaks 1 Allan Cohen Speaks 2 Amazing Journey Annie Anyway Anyhow Anywhere April Fool Ask Yourself Awakening Baba Blues Baba M1 Baba M2 Baba M3 Baba M4 Baba M5 Baba ORiley Baby Don't You Do It Barefootin Bargain Baroque Ippanese Begin The Beguine Behind Blue Eyes Believe What You Say Big Boss Man Body Language Brilliant Blues Brooklyn Kids Brr Cache Cache Call Me Lightning Can You Help The One You Really Love? Can You Really Dance? Can You See The Real Me Cat Snatch CatMelody Christmas Circles Classified Collings Come To Mama Commonwealth Boys Communication Contact Content Cookin Corrina, Corrina Crashing By Design Dance it away Day Of Silence Day of Silence [*] Dialogue Introduction to Predictable Did You Steal My Money? Dig Dimples Dirty Jobs Dirty Water Dont Let Go Of The Coat Don't Let Go the Coat Dont Try To Make Me Real Dragon Driftin Blues Drowned Early Morning Dreams Elephants Eminence Front English Boy English Boy (Reprise) Epilogue Everywhere I Look This Morning Evolution Exquisitely Bored Eyesight To The Blind Face Dances Part Two Face Dances, Pt. 2 Face The Face Face To Face Fake It Fantasia Upon One Note Fast Food Fire Flame Football Fugue Forevers No Time At All Fortune Teller Freight Train Getting In Tune Girl In A Suitcase Give Blood Give It Up Goin Fishin Goin Mobile Gonna Get You Gotta Know Ya Greyhound Girl Had Enough Hail Avatar Meher Baba Happy Jack Heart To Hang Onto Hiding Out Hinterland Rag His Hands Holly Like Ivy How Can You Do It Alone? How To Transcend Duality And Influence People I Am Afraid I Am Secure I Believe My Own Eyes I Dont Even Know Myself I Don't Mind I Eat Heavy Metal I Like It The Way It Is I Put A Spell On You I Want That Thing I Wont Run Any More I'm One In My Time of Dyin' Initial Machine Experiments Iron Man Recitative Its In Ya Join Together Just For A Moment Keep Me Turning La La La Lies La-La-La-Lies Lantern Cabin Lets Get Pretentious Lets See Action Let's See Action (Nothing Is Everything) Life To Life Lonely Words Long live rock Love Aint For Keeping Love Hurts Love Reign Oer Me Magic Bus Man And Machines Man Machines Man Watching Marty Robbins Mary Mary Jane Maxims For Lunch Meditation Meher Meher Baba M3 Meher Baba M5 Meher Baba M5 [Vivaldi Regrooved] Melancholia Melancholla Misunderstood Music Must Change My Baby Gives It Away Never Ask Me New Life/Reprise New Song Night School No. 2 Giga No. 3 Adagio And Allegro No. 4 Aria No. 6 In D Minor No Face, No Name, No Number No Way Out North Country Girl Nothing Is Everything Now And Then Now and Then (Reprise) Nowhere To Run On The Road Again One Note Outlive The Dinosaur Over The Top Parvardigar Piano: Tipperary Pictures Of Lily Pinball Wizard Poem Disturbed Politician Popular Praying The Game Predictable Prelude Prelude 970519 Prelude The Right To Write Psycho Montage Pure And Easy Put The Money Down Real World Recorders Relay Rough Mix Sally Simpson Save It For Later Sea and Sand Secondhand Love Sheraton Gibson Sister Disco Sleeping Dog [*] Sleeping Dog [*] Slip Kid Slit Skirts So Sad About Us Somebody Saved Me Sonata K:212 Sonata K:213 Song Is Over Spoonful Squeeze Box Squirm Squirm Stardom In Action Stardom In Acton Stop Hurting People Street In The City Substitute Tattoo Teenage Wasteland Teresa The Ferryman The Gordion Knot Untied: Air The Gordion Knot Untied: Allegro The Gordion Knot Untied: Chaconne The Gordion Knot Untied: Jig The Gordion Knot Untied: Minuet The Gordion Knot Untied: Overture The Gordion Knot Untied: Overture [Reprise] The Gordion Knot Untied: Rondeau Minuet The Kids Are Alright The Love Man [*] The Love Man [*] The Magic Bus The Sea Refuses No River The Seeker [*] The Seeker [*] The Shout Theme 015 Theme 016 Theme 017 Theres A Heartache Following Me Things Have Changed This Song Is Green Three Steps to Heaven Till The Rivers All Run Dry Time Is Passing To Barney Kessel Too Much Of Any Thing Tough Boys Tragedy Tragedy Explained Uneasy Street [Bonus Track] Uniforms Uniforms (Corp d'Esprit) Untitled Unused Piano: Quadrophenia Variation On Dirty Jobs Vicious Interlude Was There Life White City White City Fighting Who Are You Wired To The Moon Wistful With A Smile Up His Nose They Entered Without Your Love Wont Get Fooled Again You Better You Bet You Came Back Youre So Clever Zelda
Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend 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. His aggressive playing style and poetic songwriting techniques, with the Who and in other projects, have earned him critical acclaim.
Townshend has written more than 100 songs for 12 of the Who's studio albums. These include concept albums, the rock operas Tommy (1969) and Quadrophenia (1973), plus popular rock radio staples such as Who's Next (1971); as well as dozens more that appeared as non-album singles, bonus tracks on reissues, and tracks on rarities compilation albums such as Odds & Sods (1974). He has also written more than 100 songs that have appeared on his solo albums, as well as radio jingles and television theme songs.
While known primarily as a guitarist, Townshend also plays keyboards, banjo, accordion, harmonica, ukulele, mandolin, violin, synthesiser, bass guitar, and drums; he is self-taught on all of these instruments and plays on his own solo albums, several Who albums, and as a guest contributor to an array of other artists' recordings. Townshend has also contributed to and authored many newspaper and magazine articles, book reviews, essays, books, and scripts, and he has collaborated as a lyricist and composer for many other musical acts.
In 1983, Townshend received the Brit Award for Lifetime Achievement and in 1990 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Who. Townshend was ranked No. 3 in Dave Marsh's 1994 list of Best Guitarists in The New Book of Rock Lists.
In 2001, he received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award as a member of the Who; and in 2008 he received Kennedy Center Honors. He was ranked No. 10 in Gibson.com's 2011 list of the top 50 guitarists, and No. 37 on Rolling Stone's 2023 list of 250 greatest guitarists of all time. He and Roger Daltrey received The George and Ira Gershwin Award for Lifetime Musical Achievement at UCLA on 21 May 2016.
Birth Name: Peter Dennis Blandford TownshendTownshend has written more than 100 songs for 12 of the Who's studio albums. These include concept albums, the rock operas Tommy (1969) and Quadrophenia (1973), plus popular rock radio staples such as Who's Next (1971); as well as dozens more that appeared as non-album singles, bonus tracks on reissues, and tracks on rarities compilation albums such as Odds & Sods (1974). He has also written more than 100 songs that have appeared on his solo albums, as well as radio jingles and television theme songs.
While known primarily as a guitarist, Townshend also plays keyboards, banjo, accordion, harmonica, ukulele, mandolin, violin, synthesiser, bass guitar, and drums; he is self-taught on all of these instruments and plays on his own solo albums, several Who albums, and as a guest contributor to an array of other artists' recordings. Townshend has also contributed to and authored many newspaper and magazine articles, book reviews, essays, books, and scripts, and he has collaborated as a lyricist and composer for many other musical acts.
In 1983, Townshend received the Brit Award for Lifetime Achievement and in 1990 he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Who. Townshend was ranked No. 3 in Dave Marsh's 1994 list of Best Guitarists in The New Book of Rock Lists.
In 2001, he received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award as a member of the Who; and in 2008 he received Kennedy Center Honors. He was ranked No. 10 in Gibson.com's 2011 list of the top 50 guitarists, and No. 37 on Rolling Stone's 2023 list of 250 greatest guitarists of all time. He and Roger Daltrey received The George and Ira Gershwin Award for Lifetime Musical Achievement at UCLA on 21 May 2016.
Also Known As: Bijou Drains
Born: 19 May 1945 (age 79)
From: London, England
Spouse(s): Karen Astley (m. 1968; sep. 1994)
Rachel Fuller (m. 2016)
Genre(s): Rockart rock, hard rock, power pop, jazz
Instrument(s): Guitar, vocals, keyboards
Occupation(s): Musician, songwriter, author
Active From: 1962-present
Associated Acts: The Who