1963 – The Detours play the Oldfield Hotel in Greenford 1964 – The Who play the Florida Rooms in Brighton 1965 – The Who play Civic Hall in Crawley, Sussex 1969 – The Who appear on “This is Tom Jones” in the U.S. 1970 – The Who perform at University of Leicester with supporting act… Read More »Today in Whostory: 4/18/2025
1964 – The Who play the Goldhawk Social Club in Shepherd’s Bush 1965 – The Who play the “Big Easter Rave” at The Florida Rooms in Brighton. Roy Hatley recalls, “On their Easter Saturday 1965 appearance a frightening 1700 plus crowd was packed in like sardines to watch them, with another 500 sitting on the… Read More »Today in Whostory: 4/17/2025
1963 – The Detours play in Bayswater at Douglas House 1965 – The Who play the Dacorum College of Further Education in Hemel, Hempstead, Hertfordshire 1966 – The Who tele-record an appearance miming “Substitute” for Top of the Pops 1967 – Mono mixes of “Pictures of Lily” and “Doctor, Doctor” were completed at Ryemuse Sound… Read More »Today in Whostory: 4/07/2025
1963 – The Detours play the White Hart Hotel in Acton 1965 – The Who play the Harrow Technical College Student’s Rag Week Dance at Town Hall in Wembley. They share the bill with Donovan and Rod Stewart and The Soul Agents. Rod the Mod makes moves on Keith’s new girlfriend Kim Kerrigan. Fears that… Read More »Today in Whostory: 4/01/2025
1963 – The Detours play Oldfield Hotel in Greenford 1964 – Two days of skirmishes break out between Mods and Rockers at Clacton. The British tabloid press leaps on it, describing it as an invasion and begins to write articles trying to understand what these Mods and their enemies the Rockers are all about. With… Read More »Today in Whostory: 3/28/2025
1964 – The Who play the Goldhawk Social Club 1965 – The Who play the Rhodes Centre in Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire with opening act The Cops N Robbers 1966 – The Who play Marine Ballroom on the Central Pier in Morecambe 1967 – The Who play the RKO Radio Theater, New York, New York 1967… Read More »Today in Whostory: 3/27/2025
1963 – The Detours play the Grand Ballroom in Broadstairs 1965 – Manager Kit Lambert receives a letter stating that their April 15, 1965 gig at the Locarno Ballroom, Swindon has been canceled because the Promoter has had a lot of trouble lately and he feels that THE WHO are not the type of Group… Read More »Today in Whostory: 3/22/2025
1964 – The Who play the Oldfield Hotel in Greenford 1965 – The Who play the Public Baths in Royston 1965 – The Who are scheduled to return to IBC Studios for another bit of recording but there is no record of any tracks recorded at this time. 1965 – “I Can’t Explain” reappears on… Read More »Today in Whostory: 3/19/2025
1963 – The Detours play the White Hart Hotel in Acton 1965 – Excerpts from six numbers performed by The Who at The Marquee Club on February 16 appear on a French Television programme called Seize Millions de Jeunes on ORTF TV 2. It is part of documentary about Mods shot by two French acquaintances… Read More »Today in Whostory: 3/18/2025
1964 – The Who play the White Hart Hotel in Acton 1965 – The Who appear live on Gadzooks! It’s All Happening! on BBC2 playing “Shout and Shimmy” and “I Can’t Explain”. 1965 – A promo film assembled by Who managers and budding filmmakers Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp appears on the TV programme That’s For… Read More »Today in Whostory: 3/15/2025