pete townshend - the south bank show - part 4

[bensimps123]

he's such a clever fucker

[chipdouglas42]

Looks kinda like Pete's smoking a joint

[abt7217tc]

@chipdouglas42 no

[npspec34]

Paddy 'Prefab Sprout' McAloon?

One top twenty "hit" in 25 years - not that that would have anything to do with what Pete is talking about, but they are not even in the same league.

Pete mentions Ray Davies and that is appropriate. Two writing giants that pushed the limits of rock while attaining world wide renown, fame, adulation, whatever you want to label it.

Tough to love someone you don't know.

Paddy McAloon may indeed be talented, but hardly anybody knows who he is.

[StonefieldJim4]

Interesting what Townshend says about a rocker transcending the limitations of rock 'n' roll, when, a couple of years later, he worked with that master of testing the boundaries (while honouring the form) of pop music, Paddy 'Prefab Sprout' McAloon.