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"How To Launch Your Guitar in 17 Steps," by Peter Townshend

Annie Leibovitz American
 Pete Townshend

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This promotional poster by Annie Liebovitz for Rolling Stone features Pete Townshend demonstrating how he smashes his instruments on stage. The destroyed guitar from the shoot was preserved in Lucite and displayed at the Rolling Stone offices.

"How To Launch Your Guitar in 17 Steps," by Peter Townshend, Annie Leibovitz (American, born Waterbury, Connecticut 1949), Paper

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