Author Description

<p>From the voice of a generation:</p><p>...smashed his first guitar onstage, in 1964, by accident.<br>...heard the voice of God on a vibrating bed in rural Illinois.<br>...invented the Marshall stack, feedback, and the concept album.<br>...stole his windmill guitar-playing from Keith Richards.<br>...detached from his body in an airplane, on LSD, and nearly died.<br>...has some explaining to do.<br>...is the most literary and literate musician of the last fifty years.<br>...planned to write his memoir when he was 21.<br>...published this book at 67.</p><p>One of rock music's most intelligent and literary performers, Pete Townshend—guitarist, songwriter, editor—tells his closest-held stories about the origins of the preeminent twentieth-century band The Who, his own career as an artist and performer, and his restless life in and out of the public eye in this candid autobiography, Who I Am.</p><p>With eloquence, fierce intelligence, and brutal honesty, Pete Townshend has written a deeply personal book that also stands as a primary source for popular music's greatest epoch. Readers will be confronted by a man laying bare who he is, an artist who has asked for nearly sixty years: Who are you?</p>