According to The Telegraph, three years after publicly declaring the end of her scrutinized relationship with divorc Group Captain Peter Townsend (who was 16 years her senior), Margaret met Lord Snowdon.Then 28, the princess was a staple of London's elite nightlife scene, so it was fitting that she and the photographer first saw each other at a private dinner party. George came back to Quahog to see his old friend, Brian . The album was subsequently titled A Quick One[47] and reached No. He currently owns three systems, one large Synclavier 9600 Tapeless Studio system, originally installed in his riverside Oceanic Studio, later transferred to a seagoing barge moored alongside the studio on the River Thames, and currently based in his home studio. His father Cliff played the alto saxophone with the RAF dance band The Squadronaires, and his mother Betty Dennis sang professionally. Pete Townshend, The Who's guitarist and principal songwriter, was born into a musical family in Chiswick, West London, on May 19, 1945. Released as a single in January 1965, "I Can't Explain" was the Who's first hit, reaching number eight on the British charts. [140], In a 1989 interview with radio host Timothy White, Townshend apparently acknowledged his bisexuality, referencing the song "Rough Boys" on his 1980 album, Empty Glass. Between 1969 and 1971 Townshend, along with other devotees to Meher Baba, recorded a trio of albums devoted to his teachings: Happy Birthday, I Am, and With Love. Peter Townsend was born 1914 in Rangoon, Burma, and was educated at Haileybury School. He's very good at his chord scene, too.[82]. Liner notes from 1996 CD release. (Eelpie.com was closed down in 2010.) Father of Anne Townsend; Peter Townsend, Jr; William Townsend; Sarah Townsend and Isaac Townsend. Townshend also embarked on a project dedicated to the collection, restoration and maintenance of Meher Baba-related films. Margaret was inclined to . [12] He enjoyed his family's frequent excursions to the seaside and the Isle of Man. [138] He also owns a house in Churt, Surrey, and in 2010 purchased a lease of part of the National Trust property Ashdown House in Oxfordshire. [32] In 1963, Townshend's father arranged an amateur recording of "It Was You", the first song his son ever wrote. 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. By 1970 Gibson changed the design of the SG Special which Townshend had been using previously, and he began using other guitars. Place of death. Peter Dennis Townshend ( / tanznd /; born 19 May 1945) is an English musician. He called the song a "coming out, an acknowledgment of the fact that I'd had a gay life, and that I understood what gay sex was about. The two split when Townshend was a toddler and he was sent to live with his maternal grandmother Emma Dennis, whom Pete later described as "clinically insane". [137], Townshend and his wife separated in 1994. TOWNSEND, Peter M. Age 77, in Ipswich on October 11, 2022. Princess Margaret and Antony married in 1960, with their wedding making history as the first ever royal wedding to be televised. [10] His neighbourhood was one-third Polish, and a devout Jewish family upstairs shared their housing with them and cooking with themmany of his father's closest friends were Jewish. Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend was born on 19 May 1945, at Chiswick Hospital, West London. [7][8], Townshend was born in Chiswick, West London, at the Chiswick Hospital, Netheravon Road, in the UK. In 1968 Townshend helped assemble a band called Thunderclap Newman consisting of three musicians he knew: pianist Andy Newman (an old art school friend), drummer John "Speedy" Keen (who had written "Armenia City in the Sky" for the Who to record for their 1967 album The Who Sell Out) and teenage guitarist Jimmy McCulloch (later to join Wings). [156], On 4 November 2011, Roger Daltrey and Townshend launched the Daltrey/Townshend Teen and Young Adult Cancer Program at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles, to be funded by the Who's charity Who Cares. The couple shared an ill-fated love story. [51] Townshend took to trashing his hotel suites, though not to the extent of his bandmate Moon. Then we don't have to do it. He was a pivotal role in the genre of rock music in the 1960s and 1970s. 2 in the UK and US. [36] The band was soon taken on by a mod publicist named Peter Meaden who convinced them to change their name to the High Numbers to give the band more of a mod feel. Townshend produced the band and played bass on their recordings under the tongue-in-cheek pseudonym "Bijou Drains". During the 1980s, Townshend mainly used Fenders, Rickenbackers and Telecaster-style models built for him by Schecter and various other luthiers. or. 10 in Gibson.com's 2011 list of the top 50 guitarists,[5] and No. In 1989 during a radio interview, Townshend was mistakenly believed to have acknowledged his bisexuality, which he later clarified as actually a reference to gay friends.. . [135], Townshend met Karen Astley, daughter of film composer Edwin Astley, while in art school. Log in or sign up for Facebook to connect with friends, family and people you know. In 2005, Townshend performed at New York's Gotham Hall for Samsung's Four Seasons of Hope, an annual children's charity fundraiser. Upon their marriage, Antony was bequeathed the title 'Earl of Snowdon'. He was equerry to King George VI from 1944 to 1952 and held the same position for Queen Elizabeth II from 1952 to 1953. [104][105] He summarized the work in an interview with Sirius Satellite Radio published February 2010. Save Article. [66] Entitled Quadrophenia, it was the only Who album written entirely by Townshend, and he produced the album as well due to the souring of relations with Lambert. In the eight years I had followed him, I had donated only coppers to foundations set up around the world to carry out the Master's wishes and decided it was about time I put myself on the line. He also used the Gibson ES-335, one of which he donated to the Hard Rock Cafe. See Photos. Find your friends on Facebook. "[69] On tour, the band played the album along to pre-recorded backing tapes, causing much friction. The 57-year-old star said: "I am not a paedophile. Townshend wrote a song, "I Can't Explain", as a deliberate sound-alike of the Kinks, another group Talmy produced. Princess Margaret Met Tony Armstrong-Jones In 1960. Townsend (center) with the royal family leaving St Paul's cathedral. Peter Townsend joined the Royal Air Force in 1930. [112] He was also strongly influenced by cellist Malcolm Cecil, who often damaged his cello during performances, along with Gustav Metzger, pioneer of auto-destructive art. In 1993, Townshend authored another book, The Who's Tommy, a chronicle of the development of the award-winning Broadway version of his rock opera. Peter was born in Rangoon, Burma (now Myanmar) in 1914 to Lieutenant Colonel E. C. Townsend and his wife. So Sarah might be the chicest royal in the family. on Mar 3, 2023. It featured introspective songs, often with a negative slant. Elizabeth Rogers . He is co-founder, leader, guitarist, second lead vocalist and principal songwriter of the Who, one of the most influential rock bands of the 1960s and 1970s.[2][3]. [55] Despite the success of "I Can See for Miles", which reached No. They married on 20 May 1968 and moved into a three-bedroom townhouse in Twickenham in outer south-west London that overlooked the Thames. Townshend figured prominently in the development of what is widely known in rock circles as the "Marshall stack". Further examples of Townshend's drug rehabilitation activism took place in the form of a 1984 benefit concert (incidentally the first live performance of Manchester band the Stone Roses), an article he wrote a few days later for Britain's Mail on Sunday urging better care for the nation's growing number of drug addicts, and the formation of a charitable organisation, Double-O Charities, to raise funds for the causes he'd recently championed. S5 E4 real history: the Queen's "annus horribilis" and Princess Margaret's relationship with Peter Townsend. His family includes his wife, Sandra of 55 years; their daughters . A professorial father figure with a wife and four children, Townsend's character seemed, at least to my adolescent . Their lineup coalesced around Roger Daltrey on lead guitar, Townshend on rhythm guitar, Entwistle on bass, Doug Sandom on drums, and Colin Dawson as vocalist. Since the late 1980s Townshend has predominantly used Synclavier Digital Audio systems for keyboard composition, particularly solo albums and projects. 3 in Dave Marsh's 1994 list of Best Guitarists in The New Book of Rock Lists. Sign Up. At about this time, Townshend, who had been searching the past two years for a basis for a rock opera, created a story inspired by the teachings of Baba and other writings and expressing the enlightenment he believed that he had received from them, which ultimately became Tommy. Husband of Hannah Townsend. [33] The Detours became aware of a group of the same name in February 1964, forcing them to change their name. Here, see photographs of Peter Townsend throughout his lifefrom his career in the Royal Air Force through his time as an author. [87], Townshend made several solo appearances during the 1970s, two of which were captured on record: Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert[88] in January 1973 (which Townshend organized to revive Clapton's career after the latter's heroin addiction),[89] and the Paul McCartney-sponsored Concerts for the People of Kampuchea in December 1979. Immediate Family: Son of Henry Townsend IV and Elizabeth Titus. The princess was 16 years his . As a result, Townshend, with Entwistle's encouragement, became the sole guitarist. He also uses a special adapted smaller Synclavier 3200 system which can be transported, enabling him to carry on working away from his main studio. [98], On 22 March 2018, Townshend stated that a new Who album should feature original songs by Roger Daltrey as well as him. . Through Townshend's mother, the group obtained a management contract with local promoter Robert Druce,[31] who started booking the band as a support act for bands including Screaming Lord Sutch, Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers, Shane Fenton and the Fentones, and Johnny Kidd and the Pirates. [17] His grandmother Emma purchased his first guitar for Christmas in 1956, an inexpensive Spanish model. The Family Life of Old People: An Inquiry in East London. 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Through the rest of the 1980s and early 1990s Townshend would again experiment with the rock opera and related formats, releasing several story-based albums including White City: A Novel (1985), The Iron Man: A Musical (1989), and Psychoderelict (1993). The tapes malfunctioned during a performance in Newcastle, prompting Townshend to drag soundman Bob Pridden onstage, scream at him and kick over all the amplifiers, partially destroying the malfunctioning tapes. Townshend shares songwriting credit on two songs ("Love on the Air" and "All Lovers Are Deranged") on Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour's 1984 solo album About Face. The board apparently comprises a compressor, an old Boss OD-1 overdrive pedal, as well as a T-Rex Replica delay pedal. Timothy Dalton as Peter Townsend and Lesley Manville as Princess Margaret in season five of "The Crown." Season five of "The Crown" shows Princess Margaret reuniting with her first love, Peter Townsend. Personal Life, Parents and Family Details : Isabelle is the daughter of parents - Peter Townsend (father) and Marie-Luce Jamagne (mother). He can be seen using several of these guitars in the documentary The Kids Are Alright, although in the studio he often played a '59 Gretsch 6120 guitar (given to him by Joe Walsh),[118] most notably on the albums Who's Next and Quadrophenia.[120]. Even after . So the interviewer kind of dotted the t's and crossed the i's and assumed that this was a coming out, which it wasn't at all. A further limited release, With Love, was released in 1976. [133] Townshend swiftly absorbed all of Meher Baba's writings that he could find; by April 1968, he announced himself Baba's disciple. Referring to that, in July 2011, Townshend wrote at his blog: "My hearing is actually better than ever because after a feedback scare at the indigO2 in December 2008 I am taking good care of it. "Destruction is art when set to music. While not a huge commercial success, noted music critic Timothy Duggan listed it as "Townshend's most honest and introspective work since Quadrophenia." Pete Townshend revealed that one of the reasons he stays on the road is to help his family out financially. George Townsend, also known as Shredder, is a minor antagonist in Family Guy, only appearing in the episode "Short Cuts". Princess Margaret and Peter Townsend made it through a number of hurdles early on in their relationship, but even after she turned 25, Margaret faced barriers from both Queen Elizabeth and Parliament. For much of the 1970s, he used a Gibson Les Paul Deluxe, some with only two mini-humbucker pick-ups and others modified with a third pick-up in the "middle position" (a DiMarzio Superdistortion / Dual Sound). [21] However, both became influenced by the increasing popularity of rock 'n' roll, with Townshend particularly admiring Cliff Richard's debut single, "Move It". Over the years, Townshend has used many types of amplifier, including Vox,[124] Selmer, Fender, Marshall, and Hiwatt, sticking to using Hiwatt amps for most of four decades. Townshend was born ten days after Nazi Germany surrendered in the Second World War and grew up in the shadow of reconstruction in and around London. Margaret first met Tony, a.k.a. Townshend's creative vagaries and conceptual machinations have been chronicled by Larry David Smith in his book The Minstrel's Dilemma (Praeger 1999). The earliest public example of Townshend's involvement with charitable causes was in 1968, when Townshend donated the use of his former Wardour Street apartment to the Meher Baba Association. Townshend's 198586 band, Deep End, played two benefits at Brixton Academy in 1985 for Double-O Charities. Townshend has also recorded several concert albums, including one featuring a supergroup he assembled called Deep End, with David Gilmour on guitar, who performed just three concerts and a television show session for The Tube, to raise money for his Double-O charity, supporting drug addicts. There are gadgets on synthesizers that enable one to become a virtuoso on the keyboard. In 1978, Townshend wrote a script for Fish Shop, a play commissioned but not completed by London Weekend Television, and in mid-1984 he wrote a script for White City: A Novel which led to a short film. Townshend's acoustic performances of three of his songs ("Pinball Wizard", "Drowned", and "Won't Get Fooled Again") were subsequently cited as forerunners and inspiration for the "unplugged" phenomenon in the 1990s. The same computer systems work wonderfully well on stage, proving to be perfect for me when the Who performed at the Super Bowl and doing Quadrophenia for TCT at the Royal Albert Hall in 2010. His duty was to protect the princess throughout the . [116] However, as instrument-smashing became increasingly integrated into the Who's concert sets, he switched to more durable and resilient (and, importantly, cheaper) guitars for smashing, such as the Fender Stratocaster, Fender Telecaster and various Danelectro models. Townshend began to feel alienated, and the project was abandoned after he suffered a nervous breakdown. Group Captain Peter Townsend, CVO, DSO, DFC and Bar is portrayed by actor Ben Miles Townsend is a former Group Captain in the Royal Air Force and fought in WW2. [64] "Baba O'Riley" in particular was written as Townshend's ode to his two heroes at the time, Meher Baba and composer Terry Riley. In 1947, Margaretthe daughter of King George VI and the Queen Mother and younger sister to Queen . In the early days with the Who, Townshend played an Emile Grimshaw SS De Luxe and 6-string and 12-string Rickenbacker semi-hollow electric guitars primarily (particularly the Rose-Morris UK-imported models with special f-holes). I don't know about the opinion . I was confronting my audience with the awful, visceral sound of what we all knew was the single absolute of our frail existenceone day an aeroplane would carry the bomb that would destroy us all in a flash. We're finished. [26] Townshend dropped out in 1964 to focus on music full-time. His friendship with Hughes led to Townshend's musical interpretation of Hughes's children's story The Iron Man, six years later, as The Iron Man: The Musical by Pete Townshend, released in 1989. (1955) May 25, 2017 - WOMAN Group Captain Peter Townsend MARRIED INSTEAD OF PRINCESS MARGARET. Peter Townsend, the divorced war hero forced 40 years ago by the royal family and the British Government to end his love affair with Princess Margaret, sister of Queen Elizabeth II . I believe in God, he doesn't."[155]. This piezo system is controlled by an extra volume control behind the guitar's bridge. [148], Townshend suffers from partial deafness and tinnitus, likely the result of noise-induced hearing loss from his extensive exposure to loud music. 0 Reviews. Townshend published a semi-autobiographical story The Boy Who Heard Music as a serial on a blog beginning in September 2005. Townshend remained the primary songwriter and leader of the group, writing over 100 songs which appeared on the band's eleven studio albums. [19] Townshend and school friend John Entwistle formed a short-lived trad jazz group, the Confederates, featuring Townshend on banjo and Entwistle on horns. [71], A film version of Tommy was directed by Ken Russell, and starred Roger Daltrey in the title role, Ann-Margret as his mother, and Oliver Reed as his step-father, with cameos by Tina Turner, Elton John, Eric Clapton, and other rock notables; the film premiered on 18 March 1975. Friday 20 Nov 1914. Buckingham Palace on Tuesday announced the death of Townsend, an equerry to Margaret's father, King George VI, and later to her sister, Queen Elizabeth II, and said the princess ``was sad to learn of this news.'' Peter Townsend was a decorated World War II hero who flew with the Royal Air Force before joining the royal household as an equerry to King George VI in 1944. In Britain, the facilities are very, very, very lean indeed although we have a national health service, a free medical system, it does nothing particularly for class A drug addicts cocaine abusers, heroin abusers we're making a lot of progress the British government embarked on an anti-heroin campaign with advertising, and I was co-opted by them as a kind of figurehead, and then the various other people co-opted me into their own campaigns, but my main work is raising money to try and open a large clinic. The royal made plans to marry her father's former equerry in the 1950s after his divorce. Funeral services will be held at 2:00pm, Friday, January 21st, at Feigum Funeral Home, 808 W . One of the cabinets had half of the speaker baffle slanted upwards and Marshall made these two cabinets stackable. He was previously married to Marie-Luce Jamagne and Cecil Rosemary Pawle. Several of Townshend's essays have been posted online, including "Meher BabaThe Silent Master: My Own Silence" in 2001, and "A Different Bomb", an indictment of the child pornography industry, the following year. There has also been a Pete Townshend signature Rickenbacker limited edition guitar of the model 1998, which was his main 6-string guitar in the Who's early days. The man in questionCaptain Peter Townsend, a dashing war hero who served as her father's extra equerry, was 15 years older than the Princess, and, well, already had a spouse. Peter married Viola Jackson Townsend. From online or printed sources and from publicly accessible databases. After the Who performed at half-time at Super Bowl XLIV, Townshend stated that he is concerned that his tinnitus has grown to such a point that he might be forced to discontinue performing with the band altogether. [42] However, it was the release of the Who's third single, "My Generation", in November that, according to Who biographer Mark Wilkerson, "cemented their reputation as a hard-nosed band who reflected the feelings of thousands of pissed-off adolescents at the time. Due to his aggressive playing style and innovative songwriting techniques, Townshend's works with the Who and in other projects have earned him critical acclaim.