Re: A whole generation fooled by guitarist Townshend!

["Helen" <elbo@xxxxxxxxx>]

There`s one thing I don`t understand about this mess (well in fact there are
many, this one is just one of them) is some people now carrying the flag of
"having been fooled" by Pete Townshend. Even if (oh sorry, a big IF !!!!!!!)
the ugly thing about Pete is true this does not at all mean he ever fooled
any *generation*! When people declare they`ve been decieved and the memories
of their youth were trampled into the mud they absolutely forget that Pete,
in the first place, isn`t a rock`n`roll icon, but a human. In the course of
time people change. Pete never planned this to happen in his life when he
was a boy (did his Mom admit it after all?;-) in his twenties and wrote my
generation and pictures of lily...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Cady" <brianinatlanta2001@yahoo.com>
To: "oddsandsods" <oddsandsods@thewho.net>; <thewho@igtc.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 4:29 PM
Subject: A whole generation fooled by guitarist Townshend!


> From the Gulf Daily News, Bahrain at:
> http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Articles.asp?Article=41871&Sn=COMM
>
> A whole generation fooled by guitarist Townshend!
>
>
> By LES HORTON
>
> I really hope that veteran Who guitarist Pete
> Townshend is innocent of allegations that he has been
> trawling the Internet in pursuit of child pornography.
>
> My reasons are partly moral, in that I hope he is not
> part of such a seedy trade, but also selfish, for this
> is a hero in whom I put my trust as a teenager.
>
> My Generation and Won't Get Fooled Again were anthems
> for an army of teenagers, convinced that our world
> would be free of the physical and moral pollution for
> which we held our elders responsible.
>
> War, violence and exploitation - of which child
> pornography is one of the worst forms - were to be
> banished in our "one world" Utopia.
>
> While our parents saw immorality in our free living,
> we saw the same sin in their hypocrisy.
>
> We may not have achieved Utopia but the dream, or at
> least the memory of it, has lived on in the music of
> our day and it is deeply saddening to think that one
> of its leading lights may have become nothing but a
> rich, dirty old man, salivating over pornographic
> images of children.
>
> The star-laden world of film, stage and music has long
> been riddled with scandal and while the public will
> pass off much of it as the eccentricity of people in
> the unreal world of entertainment, the molestation of
> children has always been beyond the pale.
>
> I have often wondered whether the very rich who fall
> prey to perversity of one form or another do so
> because it was within them all along, or if they are
> corrupted by their wealth, in a world in which money
> can buy almost literally anything, or anybody, from a
> politician's loyalty to a child's innocence.
>
> Townshend has yet to be formally charged, but he has
> already admitted paying to enter the cyber world of
> child porn, ostensibly for research.
>
> Whatever the whole truth turns out to be, he is
> irreparably tarnished in my mind and I shall never
> feel quite the same about him or his music.
>
> It looks like me and my generation did get fooled
> after all!
>
>
> =====
> -Brian in Atlanta
> The Who This Month!
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