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Pete Townsend has revealed he had secret emotions for males within the music trade all through his profession – together with The Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger.
The Who guitarist, 79, who co-founded the rock band with Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle and Keith Moon, has beforehand recognized as pansexual – an orientation outlined by attraction to folks no matter intercourse or gender id.
Townsend mentioned he “very a lot loved” the “gay affairs” and mirrored he had made lengthy lasting connections with the boys he grew to become concerned with within the Sixties and Seventies.
He mentioned: “I’ve made a few actually shut mates that I’m nonetheless pleasant with at the moment. But it surely wasn’t what labored for me, sexually talking – and didn’t match into my life, one way or the other.”
The musician married his first spouse, Karen Astley, who he shares three kids with in 1968. After they divorced in 1994, he then secretly married the composer Rachel Fuller in 2016.
Regardless of his long run relationships, Townsend mirrored on one notable attraction he skilled.
“I used to be very sexually interested in [Jagger]. And probably to a couple different folks in my life,” he informed Report Collector journal as per the MailOnline.
He added he had additionally “probably had secret emotions” for The Who’s late co-manager Equipment Lambert, nonetheless, he clarified this attraction had not been reciprocated.
In 2012, Townsend beforehand spoke about Jagger publicly when he defended the dimensions of The Rolling Stones frontman’s penis after his bandmate Keith Richards claimed he had a “tiny todger” in his autobiography Life, Keith.
“What I bear in mind of the dimensions of Mick Jagger’s penis — I bear in mind it as being large and very tasty,” Townsend mentioned at a press convention on the time, in keeping with the Hollywood Reporter.
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Townsend additionally spoke about his emotions for Jagger in his autobiography that was launched the identical yr, Who I Am, writing: “Mick is the one man I’ve ever severely needed to f**okay.”
The guitarist has beforehand spoken about his sexuality when explaining the inspiration for his 1966 single “I’m A Boy”.
“It’s the thought of masculinity and the way in which that males are seen to be at a time after I typically neglect, to be gay, to be pansexual, as I believe I most likely was, however not anymore,” he informed Rock Cellar Magazine.
“I believe I used to be able to fall into mattress with anyone that will have me.”
