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
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1977-03-11
The Donny & Marie show’s concert segment features a bit of The Who’s Pinball Wizard This video used to be on Youtube, but appears to have been removed
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
1977-01-24
Eric Clapton records a guitar overdub for Roger’s One of the Boys solo LP. The results aren’t quite good enough to use, however, after Eric gets soused on Roger’s gift of a barrel of Fuller’s Superstrong Ale.
1977-01-20
The Who’s lawsuit against ex-managers Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp is settled