Pete Townshend News
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“If it rains in London, you’ve got to come help us, OK?” Mick Jagger said as the Rolling Stones performed at the 12-12-12 Concert for Sandy Relief to benefit the Robin Hood Relief Fund last night.
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Rod Stewart has lost track of the women he’s slept with, but he can recall every car he’s ever owned.
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Pete Townshend, guitarist for the rock band The Who, sold his interest in a song catalog including “Won’t Get Fooled Again” and “Baba O’Riley” to Spirit Music Group.
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Debbie Harry was ice cool. Roger Daltrey ran around like a naughty schoolboy, reunited with Pete Townshend , who chopped out guitar riffs. Bryan Adams was lively, Richard Ashcroft dreary and Jeff Beck showy.
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Two memories stand out from a recent dining trip to Stockholm: A restaurant bill of almost 2,500 kronor ($351) for one person; and a decibel count of 103.7 in a bar. Sustained exposure to levels of 90-95 decibels may result in hearing loss, so I might not be able to listen to complaints about the cost.
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The British film director Ken Russell, who died yesterday at age 84, was once challenged to write a script that deserved to be banned. He rose to the occasion with a draft titled “A Kitten for Hitler.”
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Hollywood actor Danny DeVito urged Vladimir Putin to free three members of an all-female punk group facing as long as seven years in jail for a protest act against the Russian president in Moscow’s Christ the Savior cathedral.
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An unrestored Aston Martin used for the James Bond movie “Goldfinger” and left in a barn for years may sell for 50,000 pounds ($74,670) at auction.
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