[kj] Pete Townshend, musical scholar and taxonomist: "The Police are punk rock"

[Brendan Quinn]

Yeah, he couldn't stick to His Generation ;) Somehow the book hasn't
surfaced yet, despite a hard drive full of 'research'. 

 

Jaz mentions him in the online video interview on the main KJ website, along
with old Gary Glitter, (Gary Glitter, up the <rhymes with Glitter>)

 

Was never a Who fan myself either, fully agree with the Zeppelin comment, or
Jimi, Zappa, Beatles, Stones, Cream etc.

 

 

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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of Jerry Butson
Sent: Thursday, 29 March 2007 12:18 a.m.
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] Pete Townshend,musical scholar and taxonomist: "The Police
are punk rock"

 

Townshend was the one who was looking at child porn for "researching a book"
wasn't he?

On 28/03/07, Leigh Newton <angrytomhanks at yahoo.com> wrote: 

Oh right, let's not forget Townsend, who has said personally that he should
"go down in history with Sigmand Freud and Jesus" due to his contribution to
rock music. Whatever you say, old man. 

I've always really liked the song Truth Hits Everybody off of the first
Police album.

Leigh


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From: ade <ade at the-lab.zetnet.co.uk >
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Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 4:29:38 PM
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Police are punk rock" 


FFS, Townshend has a major 4kin ego. Give me Zeppelin over Who ANY DAY.

I *like* The police. I always saw them as being of the same cannon as
Blondie, et al.

As for Sting - let's just refer to him as Stink. 

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[mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]On Behalf Of B. Oliver Sheppard 
Sent: 27 March 2007 02:53
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Police are punk rock"


[Maybe there are some very primitive mega-early demos 
where the Police sound vaguely, vaguely punk, but come
on. I say: HAHAHAHA. Sting being in a punk mvoie or
two doesn't count. -B.]


http://www.nme.com/news/the-police/27287 

During an interview on New York radio station WAXQ-FM,
Townshend said, "They're now calling The Police
'classic rock.' I don't think so. The Police are punk.
They're a punk band. They're not classic rock." 

Townshend added: "You know, you've got the (Rolling)
Stones and The Who. Classic rock - finished. It's all
over after that...this is just music. It's not classic anything."

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