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Pete Townshend

Philip Dodd talks to Pete Townshend of The Who. He discusses the influence on him of Gustav Metzger's auto-destructive art.

Philip Dodd talks to Pete Townshend of The Who. As a retrospective exhibition of Gustav Metzger's six decade long career opens in London, Townshend talks about the impact of meeting Metzger when he was a young student at Ealing Art College and how Metzger's auto-destructive art gave him the idea of smashing up guitars on stage.

45 minutes

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Mon 28 Sep 2009 21:15

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