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Track: Crashing By Design
Artist: Pete Townshend
Album: White City: A Novel

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Name: Pete Townshend
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British guitarist, composer, singer, multi-instrumentalist, producer and author, born 19 May 1945 in Chiswick, West London, England, UK. He is best known for his more-than 50-year association with the rock band [a=The Who], as co-founder and leader, principal songwriter, guitarist, and vocalist. Established and owned [l=Pete Townshend's Home Studio] (a series of six home studios). In the early 1970s, he unveiled a number of companies under the umbrella of [url=/label/269086]Eel Pie[/url], which incorporated the studios [l=Goring Studios], [l=Boathouse Studios]/[l=Oceanic Studios, Twickenham]/[l=Eel Pie Studios] (in Twickenham, London), [l=Eel Pie Studio, Soho, London] and [l=Grand Cru Studios]. He sold the studios in 2008. In 1983, Townshend received the Brit Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 1990, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Who. Grammy Award winner in 1994 (Best Musical Show Album, for [Link]) and again in 2001 (Lifetime Achievement Award). In 2001, he received the Ivor Novello Award for Lifetime Achievement. Son of [a=Cliff Townshend] and oldest brother of [a=Paul Townshend] and [a=Simon Townshend]. Owner of [a=Towser]. On 20th May 1968, he married Karen Astley, thus becoming son-in-law of [a=Edwin Astley] and brother-in-law of [a=Jon Astley], [a=Virginia Astley] and [a=Alison Astley]. He and Karen's children are [a=Emma Townshend] (born 28.3.1969), [a=Aminta Townshend] (born 24.4.1971) and Joseph Townshend (born 1989). He and Karen separated in September 1994 and finally divorced in 2009. He then secretly married [a=Rachel Fuller] in Twickenham, London, in December 2016 (more than two decades after their romance began).

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Release: Pete Townshend - White City (A Novel)
Year: 1985
Genres: Rock
Styles: Prog Rock, Art Rock

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LYRICS

Nothing must pass this line
Unless it is well defined
You just have to be resigned
You're crashing by design
You once believed that crazy accidents
were happening to you
You were chasing a capricious wind
Whenever bad luck and trouble
happened to pursue you
The dice would surely save your skin
But when you look back you must realize
That nothing in your life's divine
Everything that's ever befallen you
Happened simply 'cause it crossed your mind
You're crashing by design

Nothing must pass this line
Unless it is well defined
You just have to be resigned
You're crashing by design

In your single-roomed flat in a courtyard building
You sit alone just like a broken toy
Where's your mother, where's your lover
and where are the children
Are you a man or still a boy?
Who left you behind, or did you run
From the crush of so many options?
Now you know the special despair of the man
Discussed, debated and offered for adoption

Nothing must pass this line
Unless it is well defined
You just have to be resigned

Another man without a woman
Dropped like a tool no longer required
A man who longs for the stifling
Milk flowered bosom, a fool
who's no longer desired

Another man without a woman
Too many rages have cost you this time
Another man among a hundred children
You're just a child who is lost in time

You're crashing by design
You're crashing by design
I't all happens by design
I't all happens by design
You're crashing by design

I't all happens by design
I't all happens by design
You're crashing by design