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Pete Townshend to publish autobiography in 2012
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 20 May 2011
“What ever happened to Pete Townshend’s autobiography?” is a question people generally ask when they remember that the Who guitarist’s excuse for looking at child porn online back in 2003 was that he was researching a book about his life. At the time he said he believed he had been sexually abused between the ages of five and six and half.
Well, the book is now set to be published by Harper Collins next year. On it Townshend says: “[This is] not a vanity for me. It is an essential rite of passage. Rock n roll is a tough career, however cynically or comically it is portrayed by its detractors. I am lucky to be alive and to have such a crazy story to tell, full of wild adventures and creative machinations. I am happy that I am able to write my book myself, in my own ‘voice'”.
Despite being a long time in development, it seems much of the book is still to be written. Looking ahead to that, Townshend adds: “I am not my favourite subject. So the year ahead spent writing will also trigger the last vital bit of ‘growing up’ required by the now pensionable fellow who once wrote ‘I hope I die before I get old’. I want to write a book that is enjoyable to read, but above all, I want it to be honest”.
