1977-04-07
Roger appears on Radio 1’s Rock On
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1977-03-30
Pete demos “Never Ask Me” at Eel Pie Studios. It is intended but rejected for the next Who album. Pete later sends it to Quincy Jones for the next Frank Sinatra album, but Jones also rejects it. It ultimately ends up on Another Scoop. You can listen to it on YouTube here
1977-03-14
John “Wiggy” Wolff opens his “Light Fantastic” show at London’s Royal Academy of Art showing his work with lasers that began with the 1975 Who shows. Youtube has a video from the show here
1977-03-11
The Donny & Marie show’s concert segment features a bit of The Who’s Pinball Wizard You can see it on youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKPuyW8avAY (5:50 for those who only want to see The Who)
1977-03-10
Keith Moon checks himself into Cedars-Sinai Hospital to dry out, this time for over a month
1977-03-05
John jumps to Pete’s defense in an article in New Musical Express responding to a previous article in which Jimmy Page had called Pete a “musical dictator”. Part of John’s response is used as the title for the article: “Led Zeppelin? – wish we’d never invented the name.”
1977-02-25
Keith Moon checks himself into Cedars-Sinai Hospital to dry out for three days
1977-02-11
The Steve Gibbons Band LP Rollin’ On is released in the U.K. on Roger’s Goldhawke label. Pete is the engineer. A note thanks John and David Langston
1977-02-05
Roger appears on the BBC television programme Jim’ll Fix It. What Jim’ll fix is a young girl’s desire to meet “Tommy.”
1977-01-31
Keith Moon is a presenter at the 1977 American Music Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills