' Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend -- monkey in a lab coat.

Released in April 1969, was the rock opera Tommy composed by Pete Townshend and performed by The Who.

The album's hard rock edge included conspicuous guitar contributions from Robert Fripp, Pete Townshend, Chuck Hammer and Tom Verlaine.

The first in this list is the American guitarist Jimi Hendrix introduced by Pete Townshend, guitarist for The Who, who was, in his turn, ranked at # 50 of the list.

His idol was Pete Townshend of The Who ( with whom he shared a birthday ).

" In the words of Pete Townshend, " The production of our Who's records has got nothing to do with sound.

* The Who: Maximum R & B by Richard Barnes and Pete Townshend, Plexus Publishing ; 5th edition ( 27 September 2004 )

* " Mary ," a song by Pete Townshend written for the concept album Lifehouse

Although Baba had initially begun gaining public attention in the West as early as 1932 as the result of contacts with some celebrities of the time ( such as Charles Laughton, Tallulah Bankhead, Boris Karloff and others ) and from the rather disillusioned account of Paul Brunton ( A Search in Secret India, 1934 ), he achieved additional attention over three decades later through the work of Pete Townshend of The Who.

" Though it had little impact on the American charts, The Who's mod anthem presaged a more cerebral mix of musical ferocity and rebellious posture that characterized much early British punk rock: John Reed describes The Clash's emergence as a " tight ball of energy with both an image and rhetoric reminiscent of a young Pete Townshend — speed obsession, pop-art clothing, art school ambition ".

Amazing Journey: The Life of Pete Townshend ( Louisville: Bad News Press ).

During his adolescent years, he was influenced by Jimi Hendrix, Pete Townshend, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page.

This change was almost certainly due to the trend toward the louder " Rock " sounds of the 1970s, despite the earlier models being credited by Pete Townshend as being key to the development of " the Marshall sound " and his refinement of electric guitar feedback techniques

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* September – Pete Townshend of The Who destroys his first guitar in the name of auto-destructive art at the Railway Hotel, London.

* May 19 – Pete Townshend, English rock guitarist and lyricist ( The Who )

They played their first gig as the Stone Roses on 23 October 1984, supporting Pete Townshend at an anti-heroin concert at the Moonlight Club in London, Brown having sent the demo with an accompanying letter stating " I'm surrounded by skagheads, I wanna smash ' em.

In September 1997, Rising Records released a remixed, re-sequenced Among Us, a CD by Simon Townshend, younger brother of the Who's Pete Townshend.

Marr's other favourite guitarists are James Williamson of The Stooges, Pete Townshend of The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Marc Bolan, Keith Richards and John McGeoch of Magazine and Siouxsie and the Banshees.

The groundbreaking ceremony was June 7, 1993, with Pete Townshend and Chuck Berry doing the honors.

* Scoop ( album ), a 1983 collection of out-takes and demo versions by Pete Townshend ; also similar projects

Sting's first involvement in the human rights cause came in September 1981 when he was invited by producer Martin Lewis to participate in the fourth Amnesty International gala The Secret Policeman's Other Ball following the example set at the 1979 show by Pete Townshend.

She wears ridiculous outfits ( which often bare her midriff ), has bright red hair, a big nose ( think Pete Townshend ) and perpetually chews gum.

The promo film to Call Me Lightning ( 1968 ) tells a story of how drummer Keith Moon came to join the group: One fine day, the other three band members are having tea inside what looks like an abandoned hangar when suddenly a " bleeding box " arrives, out of which jumps a fast-running, timelapse, utterly out-of-control Moon that Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, and John Entwistle subsequently try to get a hold of in a sped-up slapstick chasing sequence to wind him down.

* 1960 – Pete Willis, English guitarist ( Def Leppard )

Pete Hurley, the guitarist of Extreme Noise Terror, declared that he had no interest in being remembered as a pioneer of this style: "' grindcore ' was a legendarily stupid term coined by a hyperactive kid from the West Midlands, and it had nothing to do with us whatsoever.

* 1974 – Pete Yorn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

* 1941 – Pete Birrell, English bass guitarist ( Freddie and the Dreamers )

* March 12 – Pete Doherty, British singer and guitarist ( The Libertines, Babyshambles )

Former Simply Red session guitarist Aziz Ibrahim, a former classmate of Pete Garner's at Burnage High School, was recruited.

Fish was heavily influenced by Peter Hammill, two of guitarist Steve Rothery's biggest influences were David Gilmour and Andrew Latimer, keyboard player Mark Kelly's biggest inspiration was Rick Wakeman, Pete Trewavas especially loved Paul McCartney's bass lines and Mick Pointer was fond of Neil Peart's drumming.

Welk's musicians were always top quality, including accordionist Myron Floren, concert violinist Dick Kesner, guitarist Buddy Merrill, and New Orleans Dixieland clarinetist Pete Fountain.

On Pete Townshend's 1985 album White City: A Novel, the back cover describes Pete Fountain, a " famous guitarist " visiting the title location, as seen by an old childhood friend.

The piece would end with guitarist Pete Townshend grabbing Tommy's guitar and smashing it.

These include " America's Waltz King " Wayne King, professional wrestler Tommy Treichel, Billy Zoom ( Tyson Kindell ) founding member and original guitarist of the punk band X, MLB player Pete Lister, and former NASA astronaut Dale Gardner.

It is the birthplace or childhood home of movie directors Joel and Ethan Coen, musician Peter Himmelman, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, Senator Al Franken, songwriter Dan Israel, guitarist Sharon Isbin, writer Pete Hautman, football coach Marc Trestman, and American film director Joe Nussbaum.

At the conclusion of the Wembley performances, Bob Geldof was raised heroically onto the shoulders of The Who's guitarist Pete Townshend and Paul McCartney – symbolising his great achievement in unifying the world for one day, in the spirit of music and charity.

Vocalist / guitarist Pete Kember also covered " Thru the Rhythm " with his post-Spacemen 3 project Spectrum.

The line-up also included late-Airplane holdovers drummer John Barbata and fiddler Papa John Creach ( who also played with Hot Tuna ), Jorma Kaukonen's brother Peter, who, after the group's 1974 spring tour, was replaced by Pete Sears ( who, like Freiberg, played bass and keyboards ) and twenty-year-old guitarist Craig Chaquico.

Peter Dennis Blandford " Pete " Townshend ( born 19 May 1945 ) is an English rock guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and author, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for the rock group The Who, as well as for his own solo career.

When asked who first used feedback, Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore said, " Pete Townshend was definitely the first.

At the invitation of producer Martin Lewis he created a highly acclaimed classical-rock fusion duet with celebrated rock guitarist Pete Townshend of The Who for Townshend's anthemic Won't Get Fooled Again for the 1979 Amnesty International benefit show The Secret Policeman's Ball.

Charlie left the band after the release of their debut self-titled album, and was replaced first by Pete Newbury, with Dave Ehrlich also joining as a second guitarist.

Singer Phil Mogg, guitarist Mick Bolton, bassist Pete Way, and drummer Andy Parker formed the band in August 1969.