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OCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE

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HE’S HERMAN — Peter Noone outshouts his scream-m
ing teen-age audience at the War Memorial appearance
of Herman‘s Hermits. He’s Herman. They loved him.

It's Anywhere, U.S.
For Touring Hermits

Herman’s Hermits, The Who, and the Blues Magoo de-
‘ scended upon Rochester with their electric guitars yesterday.

Rochester was somewhere
in America — they could tell
that by the more than 5,000 in
their audience at the War Me-
morial -— but for all they
could tell it could have been
Tucson or Kennebunkport.

Some of them go round and
round the world almost cease-
Lessly, rocking and rolling on
stages of big auditoriums,
hardly ever seeing much
more of a city than stretches
out from a hotel Window or in
the radius lit by stage lights.

The Hermits, five young
men from Manchester, Eng-
land, accompanied on their
tour by the London aggrega-
tion known as The Who, have
played “35, 40 or 50” cities on
their current seven-week tour
of the U.S., one of the Her-
mits reported in a backstage
conversation. The third
group, the Blues Magoo, are
New Yorkers.

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The screaming is what sets
the American audiences
apart, Keith Hopwood,
20-year-old Hermit explained.

“In Japan, which we only
had a day to see, there is al-
ways a deathly huh in the
audience until you’ve got
through playing, and then
they go mad. In places like

France and Germany you
find a larger percentage of
boys go mad — they almost
never do here.”

Hopwood, who has grown
old in show business, having
started at the age of 17 (Her-
man, christened Peter Noone,
the youngest, started at 16) is
quiet and polite. His hair is
longish, but by American
teen-age standards, his off
stage dress is conservative --
neat and subdued.

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