1963 – The Detours play the White Hart Hotel in Acton
1966 – The Who play The Refectory at Leeds University in Leeds
1967 – John marries his childhood sweetheart Alison Wise, the future inspiration for “My Wife,” at Acton Congregational Church. This makes him the third member of The Who to get married, but the first of which the public is made aware. Roger and Keith’s marriages are still kept secret. Afterwards John and Alison sail off for a honeymoon on the RMS Queen Elizabeth
1977 – Keith Moon comes out of seclusion to join Led Zeppelin during an encore at the Los Angeles Forum. While John Bonham drums to “Moby Dick”, Keith plays tympani and tambourine.
1977 – John celebrates the 10th anniversary of his marriage watching The Pirates perform at Dingwall’s in the Camden Market, London. Curious what it was like? You can watch The Pirates and Dingwall’s around his time here
1980 – The Who play the first of five nights at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California
You can listen to the show on YouTube here
1989 – The Who play the first of two nights at the Canadian National Exhibition Stadium in Toronto, Canada
1992 – Roger appears as a special guest at The Chieftains concert at the Universal Amphitheatre in Los Angeles. After the show he attend a post show party at “Victoria Station”
2000 – VH1.com prints an article with interview clips. In one of them Roger again discusses his hatred of computers
2000 – Pete writes a web diary from New York saying he is bringing a demo recorder in case he and Roger write any songs on the road and also a mini-cam with which he can take pictures from the stage for his video diaries.
2000 – In an interview by Gary Graff and Lisa Taylor, Pete says that a new Who album wouldn’t be a concept album because fans and music critics don’t seem to want that.
Transcript:
Daltrey, Townshend Writing for New Album
By Gary Graff and Lisa Taylor
The Who kicks off its summer tour of North America Sunday in Chicago,
promising a show full of the venerable British group’s well-worn hits and
material from Lifehouse Elements, the abandoned 1970 concept album
resurrected by guitarist Pete Townshend during the past couple of years.
But for hardcore Who fans, the real question is what happens after the tour
winds down in September? Will Townshend, singer Roger Daltrey, and bassist
John Entwistle make good on their promise to return to the studio together
for what could be the first new Who album since 1982’s It’s Hard?
“We’re trying to invent some new music to make a new record,” Daltrey
admits. “Hopefully, we’ll be in the studio making a new record. We’d like to
try. I’ve been writing like mad. I think I’ve got possibly three songs that
could be Who songs. Pete hasn’t heard them yet, but I showed him the lyrics
and he’s kind of impressed.
“We hope by being on the road and playing together and airing stuff in
session rooms, we can develop something on the road and make it organic,
rather than sit down like we used to and say, ‘OK, we have to come up with
an album,'” he adds.
Townshend, meanwhile, says he was “shocked” that Daltrey revealed the
existence of those three songs at an April press conference announcing the
tour.
“I found that quite a scary thing to hear him say, sitting in front of the
press,” Townshend says. “I think one of the things we’ve got to be careful
of is not committing too much – not talking too much about it. You have to
be very careful, you know, or you can really f–k up the process.” But
Townshend did reveal that he has plenty of lyrics and poems, some of which
he calls “f–king brilliant.” What might become Who music, however, is not
so certain.
“What I’m doing for my part is trying to work out what is it that I would
want to say if I was going to sit and write today for The Who,” he says.
“One of the things that seems to be really high on the agenda of not just
Who fans, but also music critics, is that if The Who do an album, that it
doesn’t have a concept. And we’re trying to please people at the moment.”
2001 – Pete performs solo as a benefit for the La Jolla Playhouse on the campus of the University Of California, San Diego
2001 – “A Walk Down Abbey Road: A Tribute To The Beatles.” featuring John play at The Celebrity Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona
2002 – The first edition of Andy Neill and Matt Kent’s exhaustive timeline book Anyway Anyhow Anywhere: The Complete Chronicle of the Who: 1958-1978 is published.
If you do not own this book I recommend you stop what you are doing right now and go buy it!! In my opinion this is one of 3 “bibles” of The Who!! Go get it today – you won’t regret it! If you DO own it – go pick it up and thumb thru it!!
2007 – The Who play the Knowsley Hall Festival at Knowsley Hall in Knowsley, Lancashire
2010 – Roger and his solo band play a Hewlett-Packard event with the Goo Goo Dolls at HP Tech Forum 2010 in Las Vegas
You can see a brief clip of Roger backstage here and clips here and here
2011 – Roger is interviewed on rollingstone.com talking about his current solo tour. You can read it here
2013 – The Who play the Manchester Arena in Manchester
2015 – The Who play the 3Arena in Dublin, Ireland
2018 – Roger performs at The Ravinia Festival at Ravinia Park in Highland Park, Illinois with The Ravinia Festival Orchestra
2023 – The Who play the La Defense Arena in Paris, France