Pete Townshend Dating

Pete Townshend is an English musician, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the guitarist and songwriter for the rock band The Who. Wanna know who dated Pete? Let us examine Pete Townshend's dating history below...  





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Pete Townshend dated Gayle O'Connor.

1963 - 2000
Pete Townshend dated the daughter of film composer Edwin Astley, Karen Astley. The two met in art school. The couple married on 20 May 1968, and moved into a three-bedroom townhouse in Twickenham, Middlesex that overlooked the River Thames. They have three children together: Emma (born 1969), who is a gardening columnist, Aminta (born 1971), and Joseph (born 1990). The pair split in 1994 and divorced in 2009.

1977
Pete Townshend dated Ronnie Lane.

2000 - Present
Pete Townshend is dating musician Rachel Fuller. They live together in The Wick, Richmond, England.













It has to be mentioned that Townshend acknowledged his bisexuality, referencing the song "Rough Boys" on his 1980 album "Empty Glass". He described the track as a "coming out, an acknowledgment of the fact that I'd had a gay life, and that I understood what gay sex was about." However, in a 1994 interview for Playboy, Townshend claimed: "I did an interview about it, saying that "Rough Boys" was about being gay, and in the interview I also talked about my "gay life," which - I meant - was actually about the friends I've had who are gay. So the interviewer kind of dotted the t's and crossed the i's and assumed that this was a coming out, which it wasn't at all." Townshend later wrote in his 2012 autobiography "Who I Am" that he at one point felt as if he was "probably bisexual". Townshend also stated jokingly that he once felt sexually attracted to The Rolling Stones frontman, Mick Jagger.


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