Pete Townshend Height

Urban 0112 says on 25/Feb/11
I've seen him. I don't normally ever see any famous folks. I saw Pete Townshend a year and a half a go (approx). He was coming out of Glasgow Queen Street train station, well walking away from the front of it anyway, and he was walking towards his car which was parked at the line of cars around George Square diagonally opposite.
He walked back with 3 youngish women, i thought that it was his daughter and her friends or something similar. It could have been his three daughters, or no daughters and they were all friends of his. No idea at all. It appeared that he was picking them up from the train station anayway. I was never a fan of his, i was never not a fan. No opinion on his music, no bent either way. Clearly though, the The Who were and are a massive music band.

He was wearing a black leather jacket that was straight at the hem, not pinched or elasticated. He was dressed well and in darker cloths generally. It was around 10pm. I walked along side him, he was on my left, and he look over at me, i glanced thinking 'i vaguely know that face', it was clearly getting dark, but the guy was walking along the pavement and slightly had that 'does anyone recognise me' look. I looked again before he stopped at a black new Range Rover and they went to climb in. I make a double take and glanced over to my left - we were both abeam at that point. The reason i made a double-take was his height (i could not think of his name at the time, i had to ask a friend and Pink Floyd fan of his name by describing him, you know, the whole 'is it a film or a TV programme' bit.?) I made a double-take as i expected him to be taller (his name i forgot at the time, but i knew he was a musician). I have seen the singer Roger Daltry on Top Gear et'c, and i think it is one of those ones whereby the sidekick's height throws-off the height of the other. Daltry must be teenager height.

Like Fry & Laurie syndrome. Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie, I have heard that when people met Hugh Laurie they were surprised he is 6' 2", it is Fry being a few inches taller that threw people.
Pete Townshend is not short, above average, but i would say he was 5' 10 or 5' 11. The reason i was surprised that evening was not because i saw a famous person, but i thought that they would tower over everyone. I looked across a second time discreetly and thought 'he is less than 6 foot', not that there is anything wrong with being 5-10 or so (the male average UK height i understand is 5-9 or eight).

I am 6-5, broad build, so 6-4 at a slight slouch plus it was late evening, and i was so surprised that the guitarist was not towering over me. There is obviously a slight camber on the pavement so it would make an inch or 2 lower, but i would say that he would need a mighty pair of shoes to check 6 foot in height.
The band's singer must be 5-5 or not much more as he makes the guitarist look much taller. He got in his Range Rover with 3 girls in their mid-twenties i guess, young women. I remember it as it was a short while after the time he was on the news etc for downloading images, allegedly, i don't the details or the outcome but it was on the news.

I always forget my height, always, a touch of dysmorphia perhaps, and think i am not as tall as i am, i don't think about it really. Other people have to comment on it occasionally. I would be fine will a 6-2 or 6-3 guess. I was recently in hospital for a procedure and had to be weight/ height checked as is the norm. The cinical assistant scaled me at 6'-5 on the hospital frame. I was hoping for a little less, at least i am not 6-6.
It was a little funny when i recalled afterwards with a briefl thought about the evening i saw the musician, as he looked across to his right as a double-take looking at me and that is the main reason i noticed him, that and his walking slow and with 3 very glamorous young women.
Vince Vaughn size, part European, a shock of big Lebowski blonde hair and metallic rim glasses, i look somewhat the archetypal German or Scandinavian film baddie. Hare Krishna people stop me on the street in my own city and ask which country i am from.

The Townshend man is not short, i would say Pete Townshend is on the tall side, but i was surprised, hence the double take, that he looked just under six foot in height. Me, i can't even fit in a Range Rover, the driver seat anyway, i tried. VW Passat or Volvo S80 for taller people.
At full stretch i would say that i was as near as makes no difference 6-inches taller in height, but i would not approach him, a bit rude, not something i would do. Plus i couldn't mind the man's name. I am not going to say 'i like your music' when i can't remember it, i am not going to lie, and i don't get star struck. I met the petite bijou Shola Ama on holiday once, and i could have fitted her in my pocket.

I would say he was 5-10 and a half relaxed when i saw him on George street outside the Glasgow train station. 5' 11" on paper. If he says he is 6 ft 0 in, then he is 6 ft 0 in.