Pete Townshend

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1) Who I am: a memoir

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The legendary lead guitarist and principal songwriter for the Who, one of the most influential rock-and-roll bands of all time, pens his own story.

2) Pete Townshend's classic Quadrophenia

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Townshend, Pete

Pub. Date

[2015]

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1 audio disc : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 videodisc (sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.)

3) The Who by numbers

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Who (Musical group)

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[198-], p1975

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1 sound disc : analog ; 4 3/4 in.

4) Lambert and Stamp

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[2015]

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1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

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Aspiring filmmakers Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert set out to find a subject for their underground movie, one that will reflect the way it feels to be young and dissatisfied in postwar London. This unlikely partnership of two men from vastly different backgrounds was inspired by the burgeoning youth culture of the early 1960s. Lambert and Stamp searched for months and finally found in a band called the The Who a rebellious restlessness that was just...

5) Tommy

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1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

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Film version of the successful rock opera about a boy who witnesses the murder of his father by his mother and her lover. He becomes deaf, dumb and blind, and as he grows, he is taken to various experts for cures.

6) Horses

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Smith, Patti

Pub. Date

[1996]

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1 audio disc : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.

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Pairing poetry with rock and roll was difficult, but Smith pulled it off and she did it well. Produced by ex-Velvet Underground bassist John Cale, her debut album is considered to be one of the best rock albums of all time.

7) Live at Leeds

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Who (Musical group)

Pub. Date

[1995]

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1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

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Live at Leeds is the first live album by English rock band The Who. It was recorded at the University of Leeds Refectory on 14 February 1970, and is their only live album that was released while the group were still actively recording and performing with their best known line-up of Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle and Keith Moon.

8) The iron giant

Pub. Date

c2003

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1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

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Hogarth Hughes just rescued an enormous robot that fell from the stars to Earth. Now young Hogarth has one very big friend and an even bigger problem: how do you keep a 50-foot-tall, steel-eating giant a secret?