2005-06-14
Petra Haden and a women’s choir premiere a live a cappella version of The Who Sell Out at the L.A. Weekly Music Awards
Petra Haden and a women’s choir premiere a live a cappella version of The Who Sell Out at the L.A. Weekly Music Awards
The comic strip “Off The Mark” features a reference to The Who
Pete Townshend announces that he and director Murray Lerner have settled their differences of the past month over the Who bio film and it will proceed with his blessing
Pete posts a web diary denying he is a producer on the new Who movie and castigating Murray Lerner for saying he will contact family and ex-wives for the project. Lerner quickly contacts Pete and calms the rough waters.
Spitfire Pictures puts out a press release stating that Murray Lerner will be directing and co-producing a movie about the history of The Who
Roger attends the Ivor Novello Awards in London
The 1982 television version of The Beggar’s Opera starring Roger as MacHeath, is released on DVD in the U.K.
The Buff Medways release their single “Medway Wheelers” with a cover of the finale of “A Quick One While He’s Away”
INDH2 hi-def channel on cable premiers The Who’s 2004 performance at the Isle Of Wight
Roger tells the press he will play a surgeon’s assistant in a Battle of Waterloo drama for Britain’s Channel 4. It is released in August as Trafalgar Battle Surgeon. You can watch the show on YouTube here