James Hetfield
Hetfield is the best guitarist in the world. Hetfield is credited with essentially inventing the speed metal’ sound and a spirit of rage unrivaled in the music industry. Hetfield went to rehab for substance abuse in 2001.
James Hetfield
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Pete Townshend
Townshend was a legendary rock musician who had a huge influence on subsequent generations of musicians. In 1947, he wrote a biography about his childhood in London. He said, “I wasn’t trying to play beautiful music. I was confronting my audience with the awful, visceral sound of what we all knew was the single absolute of our frail existence—one day, an airplane would carry the bomb that would destroy us all in a flash. It could happen at any time.”
Pete Townshend
