During a recent interview with Record Collector, Pete Townshend stated that he found Mick Jagger very sexually attractive via Rock Celebrities.
Pete Townshend opens up on Mick Jagger
The guitarist stated that he had a couple of homosexual affairs in the past, which he tried and enjoyed. He continued, “I’ve made a couple of really close friends that I’m still friendly with today. But it wasn’t what worked for me, sexually speaking – and didn’t fit into my life, somehow.”
“I was very sexually attracted to [Jagger],” Townshend mentioned feeling attracted to the Rolling Stones singer. “And possibly to a few other people in my life.”
He then divulged that he had secret feelings for The Who’s late co-manager Kit Lambert. However, he made it clear that the feeling wasn’t mutual. “I loved Kit. I wasn’t homosexual, I didn’t have any homoerotic feelings, and I wasn’t sexually attracted to him, but I really wanted him to be sexually attracted to me — and he wasn’t,” Pete previously told Financial Times.
In 2012, Townshend defended Jagger’s penis size after Keith Richards called it ‘tiny’ in his autobiography. “What I remember of the size of Mick Jagger’s penis — I remember it as being huge and extremely tasty,” Pete recalled at a press conference at the time.
Townshend had also talked about Jagger in his autobiography, ‘Who I Am,’ released in 2012, writing: “Mick is the only man I’ve ever seriously wanted to f*ck.”
The rocker had been candid about his sexuality before when he explained the inspiration for his 1966 song ‘I’m A Boy.’
“It’s the idea of masculinity and the way that men are seen to be at a time when I often forget, to be homosexual, to be pansexual, as I think I probably was, but not anymore,” said Townshend in an interview with Rock Cellar Magazine. He added, “I think I was ready to fall into bed with anybody that would have me.”
Townshend has labeled the Rolling Stones his favorite band. From his first live concert experience with them, he has deeply admired the band. In 1989, Townshend also honored The Stones when he inducted them into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
