Moon also co-composed the instrumental " The Ox " ( from the debut album My Generation ) with Townshend, Entwistle and keyboardist Nicky Hopkins.

1550 – 1618 ), also served in public life, and through his daughter, Anne, Nicholas is an ancestor of the Marquesses Townshend.

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

In 1994, she appeared in A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who, also known as Daltrey Sings Townshend.

Townshend has also been a contributor and author of newspaper and magazine articles, book reviews, essays, books, and scripts, as well as collaborating as a lyricist ( and composer ) for many other musical acts.

Many studio recordings also feature Townshend on piano or keyboards, though keyboard-heavy tracks increasingly featured guest artists in the studio, such as Nicky Hopkins, John Bundrick or Chris Stainton.

Townshend also got the chance to play with his hero Hank Marvin for Paul McCartney's " Rockestra " sessions, along with other respected rock musicians such as David Gilmour, John Bonham and Ronnie Lane.

Townshend has also recorded several concert albums, including one featuring a supergroup he assembled called Deep End, who performed just two concerts and a television show session for The Tube, to raise money for a charity supporting drug addicts.

McAnuff and Townshend later co-produced the animated film The Iron Giant, also based on the Hughes story.

Townshend has also attributed the start of his hearing loss to Keith Moon's famous exploding drum set during The Who's 1967 appearance on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.

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.

Townshend also used a Gibson EDS-1275 double neck very briefly circa late 1967, and both a Harmony Sovereign H1270 and a Fender Electric XII for the studio sessions for Tommy for the 12-string guitar parts.

Townshend also wrote three sizeable essays for Rolling Stone magazine, the first of which appeared in November 1970.

Lane also worked on an album with Who guitarist Pete Townshend, Rough Mix.

Jones joined The Who after the death of Keith Moon ; McLagan stated in a summer 2004 interview with reporter Scott Smith of the Times Record in Fort Smith, Arkansas, that Townshend also asked McLagan to join The Who, but McLagan had already promised Keith Richards that he would tour as a Rolling Stones sideman.

Many of the same musicians and vocalists also appeared with Townshend for later performances and also with The Who for selected engagements.

Jones has guested as drummer on many recording sessions, which included appearances on albums by the Rolling Stones, Andy Fairweather-Low, Joan Armatrading, Marsha Hunt, Mike Batt, Pete Townshend, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, David Essex, John Lodge, and Wings, He was also on a Top of the Pops performance with Status Quo, performing their 1986 hit single, " Red Sky ".

This prompted Pete Townshend of The Who to give one of his guitars, also un-signed with the note " Mine's as good as his!

* During some period Thomas Townshend was also a governor of the Charter House.

Palladino also played with The Who at the Super Bowl XLIV half-time show, in February 2010, alongside other backing artists: Simon Townshend on guitar, Zak Starkey, drums and percussion, and John " Rabbit " Bundrick, on keyboard instruments.

He had the support of his cousin Thomas Townshend who was also a minister in the government.

This also occurs in names such as Clapham, Townshend, and Hartshorne, and is not marked here either.

Gallagher and Lyle sang and performed as members of Ronnie Lane and The Slim Chance Band on the hit single " How Come " and the ensuing album, Anymore for Anymore, and they have worked, jointly and individually, on records with Mary Hopkin, Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Pete Townshend, Ronnie Lane, Ronnie Wood, Elkie Brooks, Arthur " Big Boy " Crudup, Champion Jack Dupree, Joan Armatrading, Ralph McTell, Sandy Denny, Fairport Convention and Jim Diamond.

He has worked with several rock and pop acts, including U2, Pet Shop Boys, Kim Wilde, Neneh Cherry, Pete Townshend, Mica Paris and Ultra Nate.

After his return to England from India in April 1784, Phillip remained in close contact with Townshend, now Lord Sydney, and the Home Office Under Secretary, Evan Nepean.

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.

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 ".

The imposition of the import duty on tea and other commodities was the project of Charles Townshend, and was carried into effect in 1767 without consultation with Lord Chatham, if not in opposition to his wishes.

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.

His tenure is normally dated from 1721 when he obtained the post of First Lord of the Treasury ; others date it from 1730 when, with the retirement of Lord Townshend, he became the sole and undisputed leader of the Cabinet.

Normally, Walpole and Lord Townshend were on one side, with Stanhope and Lord Sunderland on the other.

Foreign policy was the primary issue of contention, for Walpole and Townshend believed that George I was conducting foreign affairs with the interests of his German territories — rather than those of Great Britain — at heart.

This defeat led Lord Stanhope and Lord Sunderland to reconcile with their opponents ; Walpole returned to the Cabinet as Paymaster of the Forces and Townshend was appointed Lord President of the Council.

In reality, however, Walpole shared power with his brother-in-law Lord Townshend, who served as Secretary of State for the Northern Department and controlled the nation's foreign affairs.

Over the next years Walpole continued to share power with Townshend but gradually became the clearly dominant partner in government.

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

His first album, recorded with Wild Willy Barrett, was produced by Pete Townshend but sold only fitfully.

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

Townshend, who had been in front of Moon's drums at the time, had his hair singed by the blast ; he is seen putting out sparks in his hair before finishing the sketch with a visibly shocked Tommy Smothers.

In what was to be called the Gaspée Affair, local patriots boarded HMS Gaspée, a revenue cutter charged with enforcing the Stamp Act 1765 and Townshend Acts in Narragansett Bay, where smuggling was common.

As a result, organiser and performer Bob Geldof, accompanied by earlier performers David Bowie, Alison Moyet, and Pete Townshend, returned to the stage to sing with him and back him up ( as did the stadium audience despite not being able to hear much ), by which time, Paul's microphone had been repaired.

Born in Chiswick, London into a musical family ( his father Cliff Townshend was a professional saxophonist in The Squadronaires and his mother Betty ( née Dennis ) was a singer ), Townshend exhibited a fascination with music at an early age.

In 1961, Townshend enrolled at Ealing Art College, with the intention to become a graphic artist and a year later, he and his school friend from Acton County Grammar School John Entwistle founded their first band, The Confederates, a Dixieland duet featuring Townshend on banjo and Entwistle on horns.

Townshend ( with Moon, rear right ) backstage before a gig in Ludwigshafen, Germany in 1967