10/4/2023 0 Comments Roger daltrey wokeJohn Entwistle displays an aptitude for music. Their marriage fails soon after John is born and he is raised by his grandparents in South Acton. Herbert Entwistle plays trumpet and Queenie Entwistle plays piano. Like Pete Townshend, John Entwistle comes from a musical parentage. He is the only child of Herbert Entwistle and his wife, Queenie Entwistle (nee Johns). John Alec Entwistle (9 October 1944 – 27 June 2002) is born in Chiswick, London, England. It is a sort of mix of rock ‘n’ roll and folk.). He takes a job as a sheet metal worker while forming a skiffle group (skiffle is a British style of music popular at the time. “Rock ‘n’ roll was the only thing I wanted to get into.” Ultimately, Roger Daltrey is expelled from Acton Grammar School. “You know, I was a school rebel…I was a right b*****d, a right hard nut,” he admits. Although he will only ever reach a height of five feet, seven inches, Roger Daltrey does become more physically robust. “ I was little with bow legs and rickets,” says Roger. “I was two years older than the other guys ,” Roger points out, “ my family was a lot poorer than they were.” His parents are Harry and Irene Daltrey. Roger Harry Daltrey is born 1 March 1944 in Hammersmith, London, England. Two of his fellow students at that school are Roger Daltrey and John Entwistle. Betty is ‘quite promiscuous’ and insists that Pete address the men she brings home as ‘uncle.’ Pete Townshend attends Acton Grammar School in West London. Cliff and Betty Townshend ‘both drink heavily and possess fiery tempers.’ Dishes and kitchenware are regularly tossed at each other by the bickering couple. Pete gains two younger brothers, Paul (born 1957) and Simon (born 1960), but his home life is still turbulent. When Pete is 12, his grandmother gives him his first guitar, an inexpensive Spanish model. “Chromatic harmonica was actually my first instrument,” he recalls. With musical parents, it is not surprising that Pete Townshend also takes an interest in music. His parents split up when he is a toddler and the little boy is left with his maternal grandmother who is alleged to be ‘clinically insane.’ Mercifully, after two years, Cliff and Betty Townshend reunite. Although Pete is brought up in a ‘typical middle-class home’, all is not well. Betty sings with the Sydney Torch and Les Douglas Orchestras. Cliff Townshend plays alto saxophone in the Royal Air Force band, The Squadronnaires. Cliff and Betty are both working in the music industry. His parents are Cliff Townshend and Betty Townshend (nee Dennis). Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend is born on in Chiswick, London, England, ten days after the surrender of German forces in World War Two. Wild man drummer Keith Moon, requiring little invitation to chaos, kicks over his drumkit in an act of auto-destructive sympathy. Pete Townshend grabs the damaged guitar and repeatedly smashes it against the stage, reducing the instrument to shattered pieces. A moment of shock turns into anger and frustration. A temporary stage extension has caused Townshend to misjudge the height of the ceiling and the lanky six feet tall musician has accidentally cracked the neck of his guitar against the roof of the venue. It is September 1964 and The Who is playing a gig at the Railway Hotel. Pete Townshend, guitarist and chief songwriter for British rock band The Who, looks at his damaged instrument. “My fingers kill me as I play my guitar / ‘Cause I’ve been chewing down at my nails” – ’New Song’ (Pete Townshend)
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