From http://twitter.com/BrianInAtlanta Working on new Who album @MetropStudios . Recoding + playing bass, Rickenbacker 12-string and vitamin pills. See the full story and more at https://t.co/9YWi1QZVtc the official website of The Who, Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey. © 2019 Pete Townshend.https://t.co/Tl2klBWHTS — The Who (@TheWho) March 9, 2019
1963 – The Detours play the White Hart Hotel in Acton 1964 – Pete fills in another form requesting an audition for the BBC Light Programme this time under the name “The Who”. 1965 – The Who play The Ealing Club in Ealing 1966 – The Who release their first single on Robert Stigwood’s Reaction… Read More »Today in Whostory: 3/04/2019
1963 – The Detours play the White Hart Hotel in Acton 1963 – The Detours play the Douglas House in Bayswater. 1965 – The Who play Le Disque a Go!Go! Club in Lansdowne, Bournemouth, Hampshire 1969 – Who end the recording of Tommy at IBC Studio A after almost five months in the studio. 1973… Read More »Today in Whostory: 3/03/2019
1944 – Roger Harry Daltrey is born at Hammersmith Hospital in West London. 1964 – The Who play St. Mary’s Hall in Putney 1965 – Roger is the first member of The Who to turn 21 1967 – “Happy Jack” peaks at #4 on the German charts. It is The Who’s biggest singles hit in… Read More »Today in Whostory: 3/01/2019
From http://twitter.com/BrianInAtlanta I still remember when that happened because my grandma wouldn’t let my uncle buy a ticket to go. We were all together at my grandmas house when the news began with what happened and, my grandmother blamed the people who worked at the Colosseum. We never blamed The Who. — paula ballou (@moorgrim)… Read More »Today’s News – February 27, 2019 at 10:10AM
1963 – The Detours play the Douglas House in Bayswater in the afternoon 1963 – The Detours play the White Hart Hotel in Acton 1966 – The Who perform without Roger at the Victoria Ballroom in Chesterfield. Roger had come down with laryngitis 1967 – The Who play two shows at the Palazzetto dello Sport… Read More »Today in Whostory: 2/24/2019
1966 – The Who play the Esquire Club in Sheffield 1969 – The Who play Dreamland in Margate 1970 – The Who play the City Hall in Hull 1971 – The Who hold their first official session for the new film at The Young Vic Theatre in Waterloo, South London (they had a practice run… Read More »Today in Whostory: 2/15/2019
Released on ATCO SD 32-100 (USA) UK issues came with a poster Released on May 10, 1980. Album hits # 5 in the US charts. The single “Let My Love Open The Door” reaches # 9 “A Little Is Enough” # 72 and “Rough Boys” # 89 Original USA Album Track Listing Side 1: Rough… Read More »Empty Glass
1959 – Mose Allison records his version of Sonny Boy Williamson’s “Eyesight To The Blind.” Pete will later hear this version of the song at the Sunnyside Road flat and it will inspire him to include it in Tommy. 1964 – The Detours play the Oldfield Hotel in Greenford 1965 – The Who make their… Read More »Today in Whostory: 2/13/2019
1965 – The Who audition for BBC Radio’s Light Programme. As The Detours, they had failed a BBC audition 10 months before. This time they pass with the approval of four of the seven judges. The other three call them “ponderous and unentertaining”, “at the limit of their capablilties” and “overall not very original and… Read More »Today in Whostory: 2/12/2019