Editing John Entwistle (section)

== Early life ==
John Alec Entwistle was born on 9 October 1944 at [[Queen Charlotte's Hospital]] in [[Hammersmith]], London,<ref name = ODNB/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?cite=l257Ai7C0e%2BVfxlcBCOx2g&scan=1|title=Index entry|accessdate=20 September 2024|work=FreeBMD|publisher=ONS}}</ref> and brought up in [[Chiswick]], Middlesex, which is now part of London.{{sfn|Marsh|1983|p=24}} He was an only child. His father, Herbert (1915 - 2003), played the trumpet{{sfn|Marsh|1983|p=26}} and his mother, Maud (née Lee) (29 November 1922 – 4 March 2011),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://classicrockmen.livejournal.com/2848.html|title=Queenie Entwistle 29th November 1922 to 3rd March 2011|website=Classicrockmen.livejournal.com|access-date=19 April 2017}}</ref> played the piano.{{sfn|Marsh|1983|p=25}} His parents' marriage failed soon after he was born, and he was mostly raised by his mother at his grandparents' house in [[South Acton, London|South Acton]].{{sfn|Neill|Kent|2009|p=12}} Divorce was uncommon in the 1940s, and this contributed to Entwistle becoming reserved and socialising little.{{sfn|Marsh|1983|p=25}}

His musical career began at age 7, when he started taking piano lessons. He did not enjoy the experience and after joining Acton County Grammar School aged 11, switched to the trumpet,{{sfn|Marsh|1983|p=25}} moving to the French horn when he joined the Middlesex Schools Symphony Orchestra.{{sfn|Neill|Kent|2009|p=12}} He met [[Pete Townshend]] in the second year of school, and the two formed a [[trad jazz]] band, the Confederates. The group only played one gig together, before they decided that [[rock and roll]] was a more attractive prospect.{{sfn|Marsh|1983|p=26}} 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 instead.{{sfn|Marsh|1983|p=29}} He made his own instrument at home,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thewho.net/whotabs/gear/bass/bass6063.html|title=John Entwistle Gear: 1960-1963 |website=Thewho.net|access-date=28 August 2021|archive-date=8 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231008205542/https://www.thewho.net/whotabs/gear/bass/bass6063.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> 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. Daltrey was aware of Entwistle from school, and asked him to join as a bassist for his band, the Detours.{{sfn|Marsh|1983|p=30,32}}