![]() ![]() The songwriter said that he had been seeking to help victims of sexual abuse since 1976, which is when he set up the Double-O charity. Let’s hope it gets the same amount of publicity second time round. Speaking about the revelation, Townshend said: 'I did do that very deliberately. Now Mick Jagger may be relieved to hear that Pete Townshend has added quite a different description of the Rolling Stone's manhood in new memoir Who I Am.Īccording to The Times, Townshend describes Jagger as 'very well-endowed' after clocking him in loose pyjama-style trousers without any underwear in 1969. Keith Richards famously claimed it was 'tiny' in his memoir Life. He added that he had since been plagued by fears that the publicity could lead to baseless further accusations. In his autobiography, he describes how the media storm about the scandal began, saying: ‘If I’d had a gun I would have shot myself, just to escape the lynching.’Īsked how seriously he considered suicide, Towns-hend said it was ‘only for a moment’ but added that he had despaired because he was not given any sense that the truth behind his actions would come out. He added that he thought prosecution lawyers would ‘****ing rip me apart’ if he went to court. He said he and his lawyers were ‘surprised’ by the police’s decision because they had all believed he would be let off. Speaking out: The Who's Pete Townshend has admitted he was 'insane' to pay to access a child porn site 'purely to see what was there' in 2003Īsked why he chose not to go to court to declare his innocence, he said he was simply ‘exhausted’ at the time and had been given just half an hour by officers at Kingston police station to decide whether to accept the caution. Instead, he found himself condemned as a paedophile around the world. ![]() 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’. 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 has now broken his silence on the issue, as he promotes his new autobiography, Who I Am. 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 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’.ĭespite his denials of harbouring depraved desires, he accepted a police caution, and was duly placed on the sex offenders’ register for five years. Despair: Townshend said he considered suicide in his revealing new autobiography ![]()
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