Pete Townshend won't get fooled again about Bob Dylan's birthplace

He knew Dylan was born in Duluth but mistakenly acknowledged Duluth, Ga. as the bard's birthplace.

April 24, 2015 at 6:53AM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
Pete Townshend in 2012/ Star Tribune photo by Jeff Wheeler
Pete Townshend in 2012/ Star Tribune photo by Jeff Wheeler (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Pete Townshend has long been a fan of Bob Dylan. He even knows that Dylan was born in Duluth. But maybe he doesn't know where Duluth is.

On Thursday night while the Who's farewell tour landed in the Atlanta suburb of Duluth, Ga., the guitarist expressed his enthusiasm for being in Duluth. "Dylan was born here," he said.

Duluth, yes. But the one in Minnesota, not Georgia.

Read the full report from Melissa Ruggieri at the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Roger Daltrey even set up Townshend's faux pas.

Maybe by the time the Who comes to Minneapolis on Oct. 10, Townshend won't get fooled again and he'll realize that he's in the state of Dylan.

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Jon Bream

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Jon Bream has been a music critic at the Star Tribune since 1975, making him the longest tenured pop critic at a U.S. daily newspaper. He has attended more than 8,000 concerts and written four books (on Prince, Led Zeppelin, Neil Diamond and Bob Dylan). Thus far, he has ignored readers’ suggestions that he take a music-appreciation class.

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