Nick Logan interviews Pete in New Musical Express. “Christ almighty,” Pete proclaims, “we thought, here we are being told we are musical geniuses and all we are is a bunch of scumbags…we’ve never felt we were a good musical band. We’ve always been like a gimmicky band…[Tommy] was mainly a brilliant example of the ad… Read More »1971-07-17
Billboard magazine prints a full-page ad that features Keith in drag It promotes “Won’t Get Fooled Again” and their upcoming U.S. tour
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.
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