The Daily Mail reports that “Operation Ore,” a U.S.-led investigation of a website that provided child pornography images in addition to adult pornographic images, has given police a list of over seven thousand names of credit card holders whose cards had made payments to the operators of the website. This list, forwarded to Scotland Yard… Read More »2003-01-11
Pete Townshend is nominated for the Songwriters Hall Of Fame. He would be again nominated in 2011 (2012 induction class), but, according to the HOF website, he has never been inducted!? https://www.songhall.org/inductees?sort=name
Playboy (February issue) publishes a fictional short story about The Who by Jim Shepard. It is “told” by John Entwistle and concerns the history of The Who. The story is later published in Shepard’s collection Love and Hydrogen
Billboard magazine reports that The Who were the 12th top grossing act in the U.S. in 2002 making $28.6 million
Acme Rock Group releases their CD Star featuring a cover of “Odorono”. Listen to it on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wpxQevwHrA
The DVD for the film “Quicksilver” was released. The soundtrack features Roger Daltrey’s “Quicksilver Lightning”
At the First Surround Sound Music Awards, the Music From Lifehouse DVD wins Best Standard Resolution title and Live At Royal Albert Hall: The Who And Special Guests wins Best Concert Video.
Cheltenham and district coroner Lester Maddrell concludes the official inquest into John Entwistle’s death: “He died from the effects of a single moderate usage of cocaine superimposed upon ischaemic heart disease caused by naturally-occurring coronary atherosclerosis.”
Pete is interviewed in Stuff magazine
The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert from 1992 is released on DVD. You can watch Roger perform with Queen from this DVD here