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(Contact Music) Obvious The Who's Pete Townshend braces himself for an epic divorce settlement that will cost him so much he'll probably regret every single guitar he smashed to bits   (contactmusic.com) divider line 42
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veedeevadeevoodee [TotalFark] 2009-04-08 10:50:16 AM  
www.clickftw.net

/ went there

 
Sybarite [TotalFark] 2009-04-08 11:01:24 AM  
They've been separated but still married for 15 years? That's pretty weird.

 
sullyman 2009-04-08 11:11:46 AM  
veedeevadeevoodee: / went there

I was just doing research for my new album, The Kid Toucher.

 
GoDawgs! [TotalFark] 2009-04-08 11:36:27 AM  
sullyman: veedeevadeevoodee: / went there

I was just doing research for my new album, The Kid Toucher.


They call him the seeker...

 
madmann [TotalFark] 2009-04-08 11:38:24 AM  
sullyman: veedeevadeevoodee: / went there

I was just doing research for my new album, Return Of Uncle Ernie: The Kid Toucher.


Fiddled that about for ya.

 
Bufu [TotalFark] 2009-04-08 12:11:44 PM  
Stop fiddling about!

 
zappaisfrank [TotalFark] 2009-04-08 12:48:26 PM  
www.studioreviews.com

He's been banging Rachel Fuller for a while now...

Good show, old man!

 
HappyHarryHardOn [TotalFark] 2009-04-08 12:58:51 PM  
zappaisfrank: He's been banging Rachel Fuller for a while now...

Good show, old man!


But... but ... but... she doesn't have a penis!

 
insano 2009-04-08 01:52:51 PM  
What makes a woman think she deserves 58 million dollars of a man's money which she obviously didn't have any hand in making? This is the eternal question.

 
Dwight_Yeast 2009-04-08 01:55:48 PM  
Sybarite: They've been separated but still married for 15 years? That's pretty weird.

That's nothing. Jann Wenner, the publisher of Rolling Stone magazine, is still married to his high school sweetheart even though he's lived with another man (with whom he has kids) for twenty years.

(His wife's parents loaned him the money to start the magazine, so if he divorces, she gets everything.)

 
Dwight_Yeast 2009-04-08 01:56:30 PM  
insano: What makes a woman think she deserves 58 million dollars of a man's money which she obviously didn't have any hand in making? This is the eternal question.

What makes you think she had "no hand in making it"?

 
zappaisfrank [TotalFark] 2009-04-08 01:58:02 PM  
insano: What makes a woman think she deserves 58 million dollars of a man's money which she obviously didn't have any hand in making? This is the eternal question.

Vagina rental.

 
Shotgun Justice 2009-04-08 01:58:33 PM  
FTFA, They were married since 1968 which makes her have much more credibility than an average gold-digger. While she may not have had a hand in making the money, she did support him for many, many years.

 
I_Can't_Believe_it's_not_Boutros 2009-04-08 02:00:06 PM  
Fifty-eight million?

Those are some pretty High Numbers.

 
tomcatadam 2009-04-08 02:01:29 PM  
Dwight_Yeast: What makes you think she had "no hand in making it"?

The whole lack of quantifiable evidence thing. Though I would contend that emotional support must account for something.

 
BunkoSquad 2009-04-08 02:04:34 PM  
It's a put-on.

 
Rickenbacker 2009-04-08 02:08:13 PM  
I_Can't_Believe_it's_not_Boutros: Fifty-eight million?

Those are some pretty High Numbers.


Well played, sir, well played!

 
Dwight_Yeast 2009-04-08 02:08:41 PM  
tomcatadam: Dwight_Yeast: What makes you think she had "no hand in making it"?

The whole lack of quantifiable evidence thing. Though I would contend that emotional support must account for something.


Given that Pete is widely regarded as one of the most difficult human beings on the planet, emotional support (keeping the fekker marginally sane and generally sober for several decades) should count for a lot.

Not $58 million, but a lot.

 
zappaisfrank [TotalFark] 2009-04-08 02:10:56 PM  
His soon-to-be ex is just pissed he's farking someone young enough to be his daughter.

/$58 Million worth of pissed!

 
factoryconnection 2009-04-08 02:15:30 PM  
Dwight_Yeast: Given that Pete is widely regarded as one of the most difficult human beings on the planet, emotional support (keeping the fekker marginally sane and generally sober for several decades) should count for a lot.

Not $58 million, but a lot.


If she's getting half, and he's left with $58 million, I think he's coming out on top. Not because he's spoiled or anything, but because with $58M you can still live like a king and yet exploit the new well of misery and angst to create new, solid artistic output.

I was a much more fluid and prolific songwriter when I had woman troubles, lots of work-related frustration, and was drinking too much. Now that I'm happily married, I have to write sh*t about other peoples' problems!

 
SplitGuy 2009-04-08 02:16:34 PM  
"Just want to keep doing all the good little things I do.
Not work all day in an office just to bring my money back to you.
Sorry, Baby."

/$58 Mil after 15 years of separation? PT should have gone thru the formality of the divorce when everyone was amicable.
//Hell hath no fury, etc.
///He's still my hero, despite being a dumb fark at times.

 
Third_Uncle_Eno 2009-04-08 02:24:54 PM  
"Stop Hurting People", 1982

A love born once must soon be born again
A spark that burned, then died, leaving cinders to be fanned
By the wind and thrown to flame;
Flames like tongues impassioned in a moments burst.
Tell me friend - why do you stand aloof from your own heart?
The truth confronts you - the truth confronts you as the sea
Crushing without detail,
Impassioned and detached,
Killing with love and power in God's Name.
Love conquers poses. Love smashes stances. Love crushes angles
Into black. So you, without question, know your first love
Is your last. And you, will never - never - Love again
I always wished to walk with her into resteraunts, (A clammy tale).
To be seen beside her at the public bar footrail.
I always wanted to be matched with her -
Yet her beauty was so different to mine.
My "beauty" needs an understanding, a knowledge of what I am.
Hers is enough. Earned through eons; for that is what true beauty is -
Time's gift to perfect humility.
May I be matched with you again
I know the match is bad
But God help me -
May I be matched with you again
- without your match there is no flame


/i always liked Pete's lyrics, melodies, guitar playing, etc.
it's very hard to explain, but i've always
thought he was one of the few rock n' roll artists to get that mixedup teenage thing down to a tee... angst, love, hate, anxiety, lust, fitting in, being the loner, the family, putting up walls/hiding behind armor, bare-ing feelings, etc. etc.
ie. "quadrophenia"

and i've always liked his writing about / his take on love in general, between two young lovers, type of thing.

ie. "all the best cowboys have chinese eyes"

 
jj325 [TotalFark] 2009-04-08 02:31:43 PM  
Looking forward to the entire Who catalog being whored out now.

/Greatest band ever
//Not a lot of love for what's happened since Keith died
///No love for what's happened since John died

 
PumpUpDaFark 2009-04-08 02:34:28 PM  
insano: What makes a woman think she deserves 58 million dollars of a man's money which she obviously didn't have any hand in making? This is the eternal question.

Ask your mom.

 
Clash City Farker 2009-04-08 02:37:14 PM  
I bet he wishes he was dead.

 
radioman_ 2009-04-08 02:41:51 PM  
Those are some pretty High Numbers.

Zoot suit! Did a mod approve that post?

 
pope183 2009-04-08 02:45:42 PM  
58 Million ?

thats weird most women that marry musicians end up

$58 million in the hole after that much time together

paying for all the rent, food, bail money, well everything ...

 
NYRBill 2009-04-08 03:11:38 PM  
Sybarite: They've been separated but still married for 15 years? That's pretty weird.

a friend of mine is married since the 70s but she lives in another state and has 2 kids with some dude. they still hang out though

 
cetacei 2009-04-08 03:13:50 PM  
How did he not hear this coming?

 
squealie 2009-04-08 03:20:48 PM  
I thought he was ghey???!
/nuthin'

 
Rickenbacker 2009-04-08 03:29:01 PM  
Wait...didn't the ex-Mrs.McCartney get biatch-slapped a little in court? She didn't get nearly as much as she wanted, and that lawyer really didn't help Heather's image any.

 
CarnySaur 2009-04-08 03:49:44 PM  
I wish Jon Astley would make another album.

 
Midnight Rambler 2009-04-08 03:55:42 PM  
Dwight_Yeast: tomcatadam: Dwight_Yeast: What makes you think she had "no hand in making it"?



Given that Pete is widely regarded as one of the most difficult human beings on the planet...


Egomaniac. In "The History of Rock N Roll" series, he was a total dick during his interviews.

He would complain about people asking him about the guitar-smashing phenomenon by saying "They're my f*****g guitars, what do you care?"

About the deaths of various rock legends, he said he didn't understand fans being upset. "They may be your f*****g heroes, but they were my friends."

Not that he's wrong, of course, but I don't think he knows the meaning of the word humility.

 
Henry Holland 2009-04-08 04:12:04 PM  
veedeevadeevoodee
/ went there


The world is a better place because you did.

 
radioman_ 2009-04-08 04:58:02 PM  
Pete is neither gay nor a pedophile. He is one of the two rock musicans - the other being Zappa - who can talk about music and make sense.

 
galumph200 2009-04-08 04:58:23 PM  
Rickenbacker: Wait...didn't the ex-Mrs.McCartney get biatch-slapped a little in court? She didn't get nearly as much as she wanted, and that lawyer really didn't help Heather's image any.

Re-read the article more closely.
She's retained McCartney's attorney, NOT Mills's.

 
mrchowwow 2009-04-08 06:28:18 PM  
He can't explain

 
Farkomatic 2009-04-08 06:54:50 PM  
Wow...he's going to have a tougher time coughing up the money for his kiddie porn online memberships.

 
zappaisfrank [TotalFark] 2009-04-08 07:02:00 PM  
This thread blows...all anyone can do is make puns from song lyrics and harp on kiddie porn.

No wonder I don't post much here anymore.

 
chickyraptor 2009-04-08 09:37:28 PM  
zappaisfrank :

This thread blows...all anyone can do is make puns from song lyrics and harp on kiddie porn.

No wonder I don't post much here anymore.


I've Had Enough
Get Out and Stay Out

 
Fomby_Belcher 2009-04-09 01:20:47 AM  
Thatfarking

biatch!

 
zenobia 2009-04-10 02:14:22 PM  
PumpUpDaFark: insano: What makes a woman think she deserves 58 million dollars of a man's money which she obviously didn't have any hand in making? This is the eternal question.

Ask your mom.


+1 for PumpUpDaFark.

/Anyone who thinks that's "the eternal question" in a 25- or 30-year relationship is never going to understand the answer.

 
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