In a new chat with Record Collector, Pete Townshend shared he found Mick Jagger very sexually attractive.
The guitarist said 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.”
The musician also revealed that he had secret feelings for The Who’s late co-manager Kit Lambert, but he clarified 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 also shared his feelings 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 talked 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 always called the Rolling Stones his favorite band. From his first live concert experience with them, he deeply admired the band. In 1989, Townshend honored The Stones by inducting them into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.