Townshend blasts Myers' Austin Powers character

The Who star Pete Townshend has taken aim at Mike Myers' Austin Powers creation for "trivialising" what was going on in London during the swinging 1960s.

Townshend blasts Myers' Austin Powers character

The Who star Pete Townshend has taken aim at Mike Myers' Austin Powers creation for "trivialising" what was going on in London during the swinging 1960s.

Townshend fears a generation of film fans got the wrong message about the pivotal moment in British culture - and it's all thanks to the funnyman's hirsute, frozen spy who brings free love and bad teeth to modern times.

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