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1981-06-06

    The Jam release the single “Funeral Pyre.”

    1981-05-30

      Pete plays a solo show at Brockwell Park in Brixton

      The Who's "Phases" box set

      1981-05-23

        Germany’s Polydor releases Phases, the first box set retrospective of The Who

        Cover of The Who's "Face Dances" album

        1981-05-20

          The RIAA certifies Face Dances as reaching gold record status

          1981-05-11

            Pete and Chris Stamp attend a memorial service for The Who’s late manager Kit Lambert at St. Paul’s Church in Covent Garden. It would have been his 46th birthday and was almost exactly 20 years after the memorial service was held for his father Constant at the same church. Pete arranges for the London Symphony… Read More »1981-05-11

            1981-05-05

              John completes the recording of his solo LP Too Late The Hero at Ramport Studios, London

              1981-04-29

                Kit Lambert is cremated and his ashes taken to Golders Green where Keith Moon’s ashes had been interred two and a half years before

                New Musical Express article from April 11, 1981

                1981-04-11

                  John has a long interview in the New Musical Express. A famous quote from the interview: “I like playing heavy metal, I just can’t stand listening to it…the same way some people like the smell of their own farts but don’t like smelling anyone else’s.” You can read it here

                  April 4, 1981 - Remembering Kit Lambert

                  1981-04-07

                    Kit Lambert dies at the age of 45, nine days short of reaching exactly the same age his father, composer Constant Lambert, reached before he died.