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Roger discusses the possibility of playing Tommy in a film in Record Mirror   Transcript: Will Roger be Tommy? STEVE ELLIS, LON GODDARD AND ROGER AT THE OLD FISHING HOLE. ROGER Daltry isn’t too tall — a very unassuming guy if you met him on a busy street (which you wouldn’t, because he isn’t fond… Read More »1971-07-17

Keith Moon holds a Who’s Next listening party for the press and friends at his home Tara, a bizarre multi-pyramid-shaped structure that he had recently purchased for £65,000. The album is blasted out while The Who lounge on the lawn and the press snap away. During the party Pete is confronted by writers for the underground paper International… Read More »1971-07-14

The Who mime a performance of “Won’t Get Fooled Again” for Top of the Pops. It airs on the 15th

The Who are discussing Stanley Kubrick’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey when they spy concrete “monoliths” in a slag heap. These monoliths had been placed there to keep the slagheap from shifting. The Who run out to a monolith and pretend to be apes “discovering” it while photographer Ethan Russell, who had accompanied them to… Read More »1971-07-04

Melody Maker reports on the appearance of a new Who bootleg in the U.S., Who Unreleased. Seven of the ten tracks are British Who releases that had not yet come out in the States.   Transcript: Now there’s a Who bootleg From VICKI WICKHAM in NEW YORK THE WHO have been bootlegged! “The Who Unreleased”… Read More »1971-07-03

Keith introduces Sha Na Na’s headlining set at the Reading Festival.

Beach Boy Dennis Wilson puts his hand through a window severing tendons

Keith Moon is advertised to perform in the Bumpers All Star (Afro Drum) jam

Glyn Johns gives “Won’t Get Fooled Again” its final mix before mastering