# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pete-townshend
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:53:11.253Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/pete-townshend"
name: "Pete Townshend"
slug: "pete-townshend"
description: "Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend is an English musician. He is the co-founder, guitarist, keyboardist, second lead vocalist, and principal songwriter of the Who, one of the most influential rock bands of the 1960s and 1970s. His aggressive playing style, poetic songwriting techniques and authorship of two rock operas with the Who, as well as other projects, have earned him critical acclaim."
tagline: "British musician"
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birthDate: "1945-05-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump