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Readers will be confronted by a man laying bare who he is, an artist who has asked for nearly sixty years: Who are you?
Praise for Who I Am
"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
"Intensely intimate .
. He is definitely a foremost artist of "his" generation. Pete is not just writing music he's making personnel decisions; he's negotiating with managers, lawyers, signing rights. There is more about buying boats and setting up studios than there is about how he related to his band mates (for instance the reaction to the death of Keith Moon) or why he followed Maher Baba.
[Townshend's] tone is less lofty than anyone would have expected, just as this book is more honest than any fan would have hoped." — Rolling Stone (Four 1/2 Stars)
"Unusually frank and moving . First is sadness for a lonely little boy. There is his mother who ignores him throughout childhood only to clean his apartment at night once he moves out on his own.
. [ Who I Am] isn't one of those rock memoirs that puts the what before the why. (I had to go to Wikipedia to learn what the religion was about.) He falls in love not just once, but often.
I come away with a number of feelings about all this. The Who's early period, characterized by guitar smashing and hotel wrecking, is understated as Townsend presents himself as a bread-winning workaholic dad.
There is a lot of macho posturing, usually about women, but most strangely about eating flowers. . . Then sympathy for a man with an addictive profile who buried himself in work; work was infused with the drama of the times.
Who I Am: A Memoir
The English musician and member of the rock band The Who shares stories from his career in this New York Times–bestselling memoir.
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.
After purchasing a number of impressive cars, and a receiving a number of moving violations he writes " ...never much interested in cars apart from their ability to transport me quickly and safely."
After 500 pages, it is still not clear "Who he is". . Despite all that has been written about the generation gap, not many have related it to the preceding generation's trauma of war as Townshend has.
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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. . or that.