1963 – The Detours play The Oldfield Hotel in Greenford
1964 – The Who play St. Mary’s Hall in Putney opening for Brian Poole and The Tremeloes who’s single “Candy Man” was at #7 in the charts!
1965 – The Who play The Marquee Club in London
1965 – “I Can’t Explain” enters the NME chart at #28
1967 – The Who play two shows (4 pm and 9.15 pm) at Palazzetto dello Sport in Torino, Italy.
1968 – The Who play The Winterland in San Francisco
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1969 – The Who take part in a charity event at the Roundhouse in London. Proceeds pay the legal fees of students who had staged a sit-in at the London School of Economics. Other performers include Feathers (David Bowie’s mime troupe), Cat Stevens, Pete Brown’s Battered Ornaments, the Third Ear Band, and Occasional Word Ensemble.
1975 – John and his band Ox play the second of two nights at the Winterland in San Francisco, California
1980 – Keith Altham, The Who’s press agent, defends The Who in a letter to Melody Maker. It was in response to a letter from a fan who felt the group had lost contact with the record-buying public.
1986 – Pete plays with The Rolling Stones at a private party at the 100 Club in London. The party is held to commemorate the death of the Stone’s long-time keyboardist Ian Stewart. Together Pete and the Stones play “Barefootin'” and “Harlem Shuffle.”
1994 – Roger performs the first of two nights at Carnegie Hall as part of “Daltrey Sings Townshend”. The second night is broadcast as a PPV and released on CD and DVD
1999 – The CD Humanary Stew: A Tribute to Alice Cooper is released in the U.S. Roger Daltrey sings “No More Mr. Nice Guy” with Slash on guitar.
2000 – Roger goes down under performing with the British Rock Symphony at Perth Burswood Dome
2002 – Gordon Giltrap releases a two-CD best-of called Collection featuring John on bass on “Who Knows Where Tomorrow Goes.”
2007 – The Who play the Reno Events Center in Reno, Nevada
2011 – Roger presents the “Godlike Genius” award to Dave Grohl at the NME Awards in London. Afterwards he joins the Grohl’s band The Foo Fighters to sing “Young Man Blues”.
Watch a short clip from the awards on YouTube here