He was very big in the UK in the 70’s, only had a couple of US hits, ironically the tunes are used in your sports arenas and are probably better known than the artist.
Townsend accessed a child porn website, but never downloaded anything or paid to join (confirmed by police). He also informed his manager what he was doing. He was/is a survivor of sexual abuse, and has said that he opnely wanted to see what child porn there was on the net, in order to expose it. He passed on the site to police and anti-child porn crusaders.
Its a weird one.