Who I am : a memoir / Pete Townshend.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Harper, c2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: 538 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cmISBN:- 0062127241 (hbk.)
- 9780062127242 (hbk.)
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | Biography | Townshen P. T754 | Available | 33111006905869 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"Raw and unsparing...as intimate and as painful as a therapy session, while chronicling the history of the band as it took shape in the Mod scene in 1960s London and became the very embodiment of adolescent rebellion and loud, anarchic rock 'n' roll." -- Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
One of rock music's most intelligent and literary performers, Pete Townshend--guitarist, songwriter, editor--tells his closest-held stories about the origins of the preeminent twentieth-century band The Who, his own career as an artist and performer, and his restless life in and out of the public eye in this candid autobiography, Who I Am.
With eloquence, fierce intelligence, and brutal honesty, Townshend has written a deeply personal book that also stands as a primary source for popular music's greatest epoch. Readers will be confronted by a man laying bare who he is, an artist who has asked for nearly sixty years: Who are you?
"Published in a slightly different form in Great Britain in 2012 by HarperCollins Publishers"--T.p. verso.
Includes index.
Pt. 1. War music. I was there ; It's a boy! ; You didn't see it ; A teenage kind of vengeance ; The Detours ; The Who ; I can't explain ; Substitoot ; Acid in the air ; God checks in to a Holiday Inn ; Amazing journey ; Tommy : the myths, the music, the mud -- pt. 2. A really desperate man. Lifehouse and loneiness ; The land between ; Carriers ; A beggar, a hypocrite ; Be careful what you pray for ; The undertaker ; Growing into my skin ; Rock star fuckup -- pt. 3. Playing to the gods. The last drink ; Still loony ; Iron man ; Psychoderelict ; Relapse ; Noodling ; A new home ; Letter to my eight-year-old self ; Black days, white knights ; Trilby's piano ; Intermezzo ; Who I am.
The legendary lead guitarist and principal songwriter for The Who, one of the most influential rock-and-roll bands of all time, pens his own story.