2000-08-06
The Sunday Mirror reports that Robbie Williams is considering playing Keith Moon in Roger’s planned biopic of the late Who drummer
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2000-08-02
Pete attends the wedding of The Who’s manager, Bill Curbishley. Pete says he spends a long time talking to fellow Curbishley-managed act, Jimmy Page.
2000-07-22
Elena Powell & The Glitter Folk release their CD Left Of The Moon with an acoustic cover of “Tattoo.” You can listen to it on YouTube here
2000-07-19
Shel Talmy surprises everyone by putting the original three-track tapes he produced with The Who in 1965 on auction at ebay.com. The opening bid is $500,000 with a reserve price of $1 million. It fails to get any bids but begins the process that ultimately leads to the release of My Generation: Deluxe Edition, mixed… Read More »2000-07-19
2000-07-17
Thunder releases their live CD They Think It’s All Over…It Is Now containing a live cover of “Pinball Wizard” You can see Thunder perform Pinball Wizard on Youtube here and here
2000-07-15
In an interview on the VH1 website, Roger says Pete broke his shoulder with a guitar during the fight they had in 1973. He also calls people on the Internet “insular” and “anti-social.”
2000-07-11
On his website Pete asks for people to send him copies of bootleg recordings and pictures from the recent tour. He also says he has spoken to Bill Curbishley about “doing a Grateful Dead” and releasing rare Who recordings and video to fans.
2000-07-10
Morgan’s [Nicholls] CD Organized is released in the U.K. featuring Pete playing bass on one track and the entire album features a Hammond B3 organ once owned by Pete.
2000-07-09
In an interview in Newsday, Pete says the new tour “[is] the kind of thing that people do when they’re retired, isn’t it — they go on a cruise with their golf clubs or something.”
2000-07-08
On his website, Pete talks at length about what The Who’s songs mean when they’re sung by older men. He says he always wrote for teenagers from an older perspective and that the music was “about the adjustments we were all having to make as adults, not what our younger audience was going through as… Read More »2000-07-08