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Apr 4, 2007, 11:30 GMT

Pete Townshend's traumatic shower

Pete Townshend was forced to shower in front of two male scoutmasters when he was just ten.The Who guitarist recalls his time in the Sea Scouts in his new memoir 'Who He?' - the same book he was researching when he was arrested in 2003 on suspicion of downloading child pornography.Townshend says he was made to wash in front of the scoutmasters, one of whom told him, "This is our initiation ceremony."The rock star said: "Neither of them touched me, or appeared to want to. But I felt an obvious exposure to homosexual interest."The 61-year-old was cleared of the child pornography charges four months after his arrest.(C) BANG Media International

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