Pete Townshend

By Samaritan 5/8/13 | www.samaritanmag.com

“The Who are doing a concert right at the end of this tour [July 8 at Wembley Arena in aid of Double O] for Refuge, which is a series of refuges. There are about 70 in the UK, which are suffering from cutbacks for women, for families, who’ve been caught up in domestic violence... I grew up with a family that was colourful and fun and crazy, but the kind of craziness that I saw in the families of the kids that I grew up with was of a completely different order — underprivileged children with not enough to eat, with violent fathers, with ineffective mothers, with no state support, despite the fact that we have social security. So that’s where I focus my energies." — The Who's Pete Townshend tells Karen Bliss of Samaritanmag in April, 2013.