Townshend

[toun-zuhnd]

noun

1. Charles, 1725–67, English politician, chancellor of the exchequer for whom the Townshend Acts are named.

Townshend

/ ˈtaʊnzɛnd /

noun

1. Charles, 2nd Viscount, nicknamed Turnip Townshend. 1674–1738, English politician and agriculturist

2. Pete born 1945, British rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter: member of the Who from 1964 and composer of much of their material

Example Sentences

Guitarist and songwriter Pete Townshend says that for now he wants to savor the moment.

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“It came quite late for us but it was something we’d longed for and a huge adventure,” Townshend said in a recent interview, featuring long, thoughtful and detailed recollections of those early days.

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“Being in New York, staying in a fancy hotel called the Drake that was quite posh with filet steak for fifty bucks felt like the high life,” Townshend says.

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Townshend said he made lifelong friends in those two weeks and that “to this day New York feels like a second home.”

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Then came the “fantastic indoctrination into the West Coast scene,” Townshend says of hanging out with Jimi Hendrix and the Mamas and the Papas.

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