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‘What I did was insane’: Pete Townshend breaks 9 year silence on child pornography scandal
He insisted at the time that he had simply been conducting ‘research’ when he paid £7 with his credit card in 1999 to access a website bearing the message ‘click here for child porn’.
Despite his denials of harbouring depraved desires, he accepted a police caution, and was duly placed on the sex offenders’ register for five years.
His image has never fully recovered, although he did play at the Olympics closing ceremony this summer, along with The Who’s only other surviving original band member, lead singer Roger Daltrey.
He has now broken his silence on the issue, as he promotes his new autobiography, Who I Am.
Speaking to The Times, Townshend said that he had struggled to express himself in the book because his actions seemed ‘insane’, even to him.
He said that when the police raided his home in 2003 after combing through the records of a US company hosting child porn sites, his main concern was just that they would read his diaries, featuring dilemmas about which yacht or flash car to splash out on, and think he was ‘a self-obsessed prat’.
Instead, he found himself condemned as a paedophile around the world.
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grayscape
September 29th, 2012
…so he’s a self-obsessed pedophile prat.
Maudie N Mandeville
September 29th, 2012
He’s always got a place in the Democrat Party.
dba_vagabond_trader
September 29th, 2012
No mention of concern for his family, just himself. Maybe Pete should convert to islam where diddling kids is halal.
Corona
September 29th, 2012
See me
Feel me
Touch me
Heal me
You won’t shout as I fiddle about
mkultra
September 29th, 2012
I’m always amused when perverts describe themselves as ‘complicated’. (amused in the sense that I’d like to bounce a brick off their head).
FreeMan & Sarah Voting Early & Often
September 29th, 2012
Buggery is the English way
Joe
September 29th, 2012
Excuse me, but what was that about Mick Jagger again?
Aufklarer
September 29th, 2012
Once a perv, …
fluffythewondercat
September 29th, 2012
“Research.” Yep that’s what KGO San Francisco radio personality Bernie Ward claimed, too. He’s doing time in the Big House.
Tim
September 29th, 2012
Poor fekkin pervert … he shoulda shuffled off to the bottom of the ocean – but NOoooooo, he’s gotta put out a ghost-written book to try to make everyone feel sorry for HIM!
I think I’ll puke.
ruble
September 29th, 2012
He belongs in prison.
Callmelennie
September 29th, 2012
@Corona
Clicking on you, I get the pictures
Gazing at you, I pulled my meet
Downloading you, I spurt a fountain
I got some white stains on my sheet
Entwined with you, nearly saw prison
From you, they changed the story
On you, they changed opinions
From you, they now abhor me
Jerry Manderin
September 29th, 2012
“I want to see what I can find…”
Unruly Refugee
September 30th, 2012
Never liked him. He said the first time he saw Mick Jagger was the first time he wanted to fu*k a man. I don’t tolerate queers.