Rocker forgets his old jacket

 
Pete Townshend who sang five songs said he was delighted to be performing. "The Trust has helped so many young people I have met. It has done so in simple, direct and practical ways," he said

Picture Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images
3 May 2013

Over to the British Music Experience at the O2 Arena, where an auction was held this week in aid of the War Child charity, which is now 20 years old.

One lot was a framed series of postcards designed by David Bowie and Brian Eno for the 1994 War Child project Little Pieces from Big Stars, and another a jacket purportedly designed by Pete Townshend, of The Who, but he gamely admitted that he didn’t remembering making it.

To make amends Townshend chipped in some tickets for The Who’s 40th anniversary concert. Around £20,000 was raised in total.

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