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The colleagues of the American Rolling Stone met Pete Townshend for a big interview. The WHO guitarist spoke to Andy Greene about his work show “The Studio Albums” and about the history of the WHO.
“Although this is a collection of solosongs, in my opinion they could have been all WHO songs,” says Pete Townshend about the box. “Don’t let us fall into the trap that I would have held songs back in front of the WHO. I never did that. I just wrote songs.”
One aspect of the detailed conversation revolves around the sexual orientation of the exceptional. Or: revolves more or less about the sexual orientation of the exceptional.
“When I look back, I realized that I really wanted to be gay. But for the wrong reasons”
Andy Greene comes up with a townshend song: “Many people heard” Rough Boys “and thought that you basically got out of it.”
Pete Townshend: “I think that was in a way. I think what is misunderstood is the fact that I have ever hidden myself. I had a few gay experiences. And just decided that this was nothing for me. But there was certainly a time when I as a young man with Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert. Found.”
Townshend explains: “Not because of a love, a physical love for men. But because it was cool. Because it was illegal. Because it was dangerous. And for all of these reasons.”
Townshend does not give good hair on fashion songs such as “YMCA”, which are supposed to serve the community, sometimes only ironically: Townshend does not give a good hair:
“This song was created as a call to the … it is of course interesting that the Village People say that” Ymca “is not about being gay. But “Rough Boys” is like a middle finger to “Ymca” basically the idea that we dress in these uniforms of gay and homosexuality. But in reality it is the dangerous thing that attracts us. The charm of it. “