Career The Who Īfter joining the Detours, Entwistle played a major role in encouraging Pete Townshend's budding talent on the guitar, and insisting that Townshend be admitted into the band as well. Daltrey was aware of Entwistle from school, and asked him to join as a bass guitarist for his band, the Detours. He made his own instrument at home, and soon attracted the attention of Roger Daltrey, who had been in the year above Entwistle at Acton County, but had been expelled and was working as an electrician's mate. Entwistle, in particular, was having difficulty hearing his trumpet with rock bands, and decided to switch to playing guitar, but due to his large fingers, and also his fondness for the low guitar tones of Duane Eddy, he decided to take up the bass guitar instead. The group only played one gig together, before they decided that rock and roll was a more attractive prospect. He met Pete Townshend in the second year of school, and the two formed a trad jazz band, the Confederates. He did not enjoy the experience and after joining Acton County Grammar School aged 11, switched to the trumpet, moving to the French horn when he joined the Middlesex Schools Symphony Orchestra. His musical career began aged 7, when he started taking piano lessons. Divorce was uncommon in the 1940s, and this contributed to Entwistle becoming reserved and socialising little. His parents' marriage failed soon after he was born, and he was mostly raised by his mother at his grandparents' house in South Acton. His father, Herbert, who died in 2003, played the trumpet and his mother, Maud (née Lee) (29 November 1922 – 4 March 2011), played the piano.

John Alec Entwistle was born on 9 October 1944 in Chiswick, which is now part of London.

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