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on until midnight, but an
audience of 6000 stayed.

Nobody in the grow got
any sleep, John said. and
when they arrived in Phila-
delphia with no hotel
rooms, it became a shatter-
ing sequence of calamities.
“We were all so tense from
the past few days that even
when we got a chance to
s 1 e e p, we couldn‘t. I
couldn’t fall asleep until 7
Wednesday morning.”

America has caused the

break-up of many p0pular
English groups, K e i t h
noted. “It's what got Cream
to split up.”

Joh n agreed: "If we
played in America for more
than a month, the Who
would break up to. It's not
that we can‘t stand each
other, but we really get
homesick being in America.
Our families are all back
in England and we're here
just to work.”

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really compatible personal-
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early days when the grnup
was knuwn as the High
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ibly sure the band would be
a success." Keith smiled.
That's what made us stick
together. We were all hold-
ine together until we were
going to make it."

"he been playing in
hands with Pete Townshend
sinee we were 14." John
said. "We met each other
when we were in school to-
gether. Pete and I first
were in a hand where I
played trumpet and he
played banjo."

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learnin‘.‘ to play banjo then.
hut we had three banjos in
the band. so nubody could
tell how he was playing.
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