If we had a hammer, we’d hammer in the morning. We’d hammer in the evening all over this land. But rock star Peter Townshend is saying if he had a gun, he’d have shot himself.

Townshend says he contemplated killing himself after he confessed to downloading child pornography.

‘If I had had a gun, I would have shot myself,’ he tells The Observer in an exclusive interview. ‘And if I had shot myself, it would have been f*****g awful because it would have confirmed what everybody thought.’