New Pete Townshend biography released

Out now in the U.K. is a new biography Who Are You: The Life of Pete Townshend. The first draft of the book, which was written by noted Who scholar Mark Ian Wilkerson, so impressed Townshend that it led to an exclusive interview for the book, as well as to interviews with Townshend's youngest brother and touring Who bandmate Simon Townshend, Townshend's former brother-in-law and engineer Jon Astley, and other key players in Townshend's life.

Eddie Vedder provides the book's forward.

Who Are You is among the first Townshend books to shed light into his West London roots and early life in post-war Britain.

During his keynote address at last year's South By Southwest music festival, Townshend explained that the Who's music was created in part as an answer to his parents' generation's secretiveness and silence about the horrors of World War II: [ Click to listen if you have a backstage pass] "The function of the Who's music was to demand something to fill the gap that that lack of information about the past. It was to keep screaming, you know, 'What is the answer to this? What is this about? What don't we know that we should have known? How can we avoid making the same mistakes you guys made if we don't know how these mistakes came about?'"

The book which is only out in the UK will be published in the U.S. in September. For more information, log on to townshendbio.com.
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