1974-08-21
Principal photography for Tommy is completed with sequences shot on Hayling Island and Southsea Beach near the Lifeboat Café. Final cost for the movie: $3.5 million
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1974-08-19
The Harry Nilsson album Pussy Cats, produced by John Lennon and featuring drumming by Keith on some tracks, is released in the U.S. It peaks at #60. The U.K. edition is released on the 30th but does not chart.
1974-08-04
Pete and Keith appear at Eric Clapton’s show at the Palm Beach International Raceway in Florida and are joined by Joe Walsh. Clapton, Townshend and Walsh perform “Layla” and “Little Queenie” and Keith comes out to sing “I Can’t Explain.”
1974-08-02
Pete accompanies Eric at the Greensboro North Carolina Coliseum for “Willie And The Hand Jive” and “Get Ready”. Keith joins them for “Layla,” “Badge” and “Little Queenie.”
1974-08-02
Billy Nicholls’ LP Love Songs, with an engineering credit for Pete on “Helpless Helpless,” is released in the U.K.
1974-08-01
Pete decides to accompany Eric Clapton on his comeback concert tour of the United States to provide support for the still shaky musician. That bastion of sobriety, Keith Moon, also tags along. The two join Eric onstage at The Omni in Atlanta on the 1st for performances of “Layla,” “Baby Don’t You Do It” and… Read More »1974-08-01
1974-07-29
Mama Cass dies of a heart attack in the very same apartment where Keith Moon will die four years later.
1974-07-27
Pete attends a party thrown by Mick Jagger with guests Rod Stewart, Debbie Reynolds, Bryan Ferry and Mama Cass
1974-07-23
Former High Numbers publicist Pete Meaden takes Pete Townshend to see the Steve Gibbons Band perform at Dingwalls, Camden Town, North London.
1974-07-20
New Musical Express reports that Keith Moon will star in a play with fellow Tommy movie performer and drinking friend Oliver Reed and that Roger will star in two films, one of which will be a biography of composer Franz Liszt. In the same issue is a long article about teenagers in a British school… Read More »1974-07-20