2000-09-19
Roger attends the 2000 PETA Awards in Los Angeles
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2000-09-18
eelpie.com begins selling Pete’s live CD’s Live @ The Empire 1998 and Live @ Sadler’s Wells 2000.
2000-09-17
The Showtime cable channel premieres the biopic Hendrix. Mark Holmes plays Pete and Nigel Graham plays Roger.
2000-09-13
Who fan Cameron Crowe’s semi-autobiographical movie Almost Famous premieres. It features a scene where the hero discovers rock music when he listens to “Sparks” from the Tommy album. The song is featured on the movie’s soundtrack CD.
2000-09-05
John Entwistle tapes a guest appearance on the U.K. TV comedy-game show programme Never Mind The Buzzcocks. The episode airs on the 15th.
2000-09-01
A news report claims The Who were horrified after having been drawn as they currently look for the forthcoming U.S. cartoon show The Simpsons. They ask to be redrawn as they appeared in the mid 1970’s.
2000-08-26
Channel 4 (U.K.) airs “The Real Keith Moon”, an hour-long documentary narrated by John Peel
2000-08-25
The Evening Standard reports that Roger is one of the celebrities that has written letters asking for “compassionate parole” for the dying British gangster Reggie Kray.
2000-08-23
The John Entwistle Band’s long-delayed Music From Van-Pires goes on sale at John’s website. The CD is also sold at souvenir kiosks at Who shows. It will be John’s last solo studio album
2000-08-22
Roger tells a reporter for the Sacramento Bee that they are still trying to get a good script for the Moon movie and have approached Alex Cox (Repo Man, Sid and Nancy) to direct. Cox will write a script with Tod Davies called “Keith Moon Was Here” that Roger will reject. Cox will later post… Read More »2000-08-22