Happy 75th birthday Pete Townshend: snapshots of The Who's guitar ace

This one is for the classic rockers. Pete Townshend is 75 years old today, three quarters of a century living in this planet and being a whole rock generation game changer.

We’re sharing some snapshots from our photo archive with Townshend posing for promotional pics with the band or alone, when he’s not playing some solos onstage, probably for songs like Magic Bus, Pure and Easy, Pinball Wizard, Naked Eye and, of course, My Generation.

Yes, we were listening to Who’s Next when we were looking through these photographs. Happy birthday Pete!