Pete Townshend

Not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Eligible since: 1998

First Recording: 1972

Previously Considered? No  what's this?

Pete Townshend
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🔲Rolling Stone 500 Albums
🔲Rolling Stone 500 Songs
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🔲Saturday Night Live
🔲Major Festival Headliner
🔲Songwriters Hall of Fame
🔲“Big Four” Grammys

Essential Songs (?)WikipediaYouTube
Let My Love Open the Door (1980)
Rough Boys (1980)

Pete Townshend @ Wikipedia

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Here are Pete Townshend's Top 100 Solo Songs
http://supergroup.netfirms.com/index7.htm

and here the Top 200 Songs of The Who which he wrote almost all of the songs http://supergroup.netfirms.com/index5.htm

Posted by GarJen on Monday, 04/9/2018 @ 21:12pm


I'll put Townshend's Top 30 solo songs up against any probable nominee this year:
1) Let My Love Open the Door
Album: Empty Glass
https://youtu.be/4FZbcoWrUsw

2) Slit Skirts
Album: All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes
https://youtu.be/NuTXSnez3WM

3) White City Fighting
Album: White City
https://youtu.be/IYJuuRALcWs

4) My Baby Gives It Away
Album: Rough Mix
https://youtu.be/Gsxnn6S-_NQ

5) Rough Boys
Album: Empty Glass
https://youtu.be/dkT8W6u81Ks

6) Prelude/Face Dances Part 2
Album: All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes
https://youtu.be/EKXvqYxn6xA and https://youtu.be/5NTXdml1VpI

7) Give Blood
Album: White City
https://youtu.be/VfggghQENsU?t=40s

8) Keep Me Turning
Album: Rough Mix
https://youtu.be/Nv6aKElzEH8

9) A Little is Enough
Album: Empty Glass
https://youtu.be/toPaXZPbQYs?t=40s

10) Stardom in Acton
Album: All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes
https://youtu.be/mG6_SJBdOiU

11) Crashing By Design
Album: White City
https://youtu.be/LcNlzAne-eY

12) Heart To Hang Onto
Album: Rough Mix
https://youtu.be/ykJl23znhpE

13) And I Moved
Album: Empty Glass
https://youtu.be/IVfCDrb9NQw

14) Somebody Saved Me
Album: All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes
https://youtu.be/jFxnWqgaKRs

15) Brilliant Blues
Album: White City
https://youtu.be/RdGlWRmh-uM

16) Misunderstood
Album: Rough Mix
https://youtu.be/qgDwvWqIx4o

17) I Am an Animal
Album: Empty Glass
https://youtu.be/uXNfGURmin8

18) North Country Girl
Album: All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes
https://youtu.be/WavnVVDlBak

19) Hiding Out
Album: White City
https://youtu.be/VkBKeDw2DHQ

20) Street In The City
Album: Rough Mix
https://youtu.be/4-ScKVsUVe8

21) Jools and Jim
Album: Empty Glass
https://youtu.be/4POBe1L8BcI

22) The Sea Refuses No River
Album: All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes
https://youtu.be/vOFyO6IqYk0

23) Secondhand Love
Album: White City
https://youtu.be/npopZFib8ds

24) A Friend is a Friend
Album: The Iron Man
https://youtu.be/1W-NCIZAXlw

25) Gonna Get Ya
Album: Empty Glass
https://youtu.be/lKyBt6b2IUU

26) Stop Hurting People
Album: All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes
https://youtu.be/srNy0e8kSsY

27) Come To Mama
Album: White City
https://youtu.be/LWqgS_MG7dk

28) Now and Then
Album: Psychoderelict
https://youtu.be/CWMqM-O-JbU

29) Empty Glass
Album: Empty Glass
https://youtu.be/Q8fpz1iwbwI

30) Uniforms
Album: All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes
https://youtu.be/6S3LklS1PiY

Posted by Garrett Jennings on Tuesday, 08/21/2018 @ 21:36pm


People who think hes not worthy of solo in r.r h f dont know music period .... Hos solo work from late 78 till late 80s was killer. His talent to write music. Amazing.

Posted by Vince Schiavone on Sunday, 02/16/2020 @ 15:26pm


A rock poll was done by @BracketeersThe on Twitter over a year ago and I would say these top 7 vote-getters deserve a nom by
@rockhall
1) Pete Townshend (solo) 2) Boston 3) Ozzy (solo) 4) REO 5) Bad Company 6) Thin Lizzy 7) Foreigner
#2022RockNoms #ClassicRock #WhatPeopleLove #DailyListen

https://twitter.com/GarJennings/status/1488944291166797827?s=20&t=jBIDYvsLDhAvCFXZaUO3Ew

Posted by Garrett Jennings on Wednesday, 03/2/2022 @ 23:54pm


I'd put Pete's solo work up against many of the people already in twice.

Garrett Jennings mentioned 30 songs and didn't mention anything from Who Came first...Sheraton Gibson, Pure and Easy, Time is Passing.

There's also Face the Face off of White City, After the Fire which he wrote for Roger to sing.

And we haven't even touched the Scoop releases or his live albums.

Posted by John Zagajewski on Wednesday, 02/22/2023 @ 09:18am


whys there no page on daltrey enwhistle or moons solo careers? i know theyll never get in but for completionists sake they should at least have a page on them!

anyway townsend solo is really really good but hes already in with the who and hes not gonna get covered twice. especially compared to the beatles solo who all had monumental albums and singles. townsend on his own doesnt have an all things must pass or band on the run, as good as white city and let my love open the door are.

Posted by will m on Wednesday, 05/17/2023 @ 07:03am


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