Guitarist Townshend is a trained ballet dancer

English rock guitarist Pete Townshend of the band The Who was once trained as a ballet dancer. Townshend, who is famous for his stage antics including along with his band mates destroying their equipment after every performance, said: "I did a short stint as a sort of 'Billy Elliot'. My father wasn't keen and the ballet mistress beat me." The 62-year-old was quoted by mirror.co.uk as saying that the band could have made many more albums but he chose to give priority to his family ahead of his music.