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: 3/18/2024
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: 3/15/2024
1963 – The Detours play Oldfield Hotel in Greenford 1964 – Melody Maker cites The Who in an article about the burgeoning R&B scene. It is the first national press mention of The Who. The same issue also has an ad for Marshall Amps citing The Who as clients. 1965 – The Who play Starlite… Read More »Today in Whostory: 3/14/2024
1965 – The Who play The Goldhawk Social Club in Shepherd’s Bush 1965 – “I Can’t Explain” dropped completely out of the NME chart after having reached #26 the previous week. 1966 – The Who play The Birdcage in Portsmouth 1966 – Pete and the battle of the Who singles is the cover story in… Read More »Today in Whostory: 3/12/2024
1963 – The Detours play Douglas House in Bayswater 1966 – The Who play The RamJam Club in Brixton, London 1966 – Talmy brings his call for an injunction against further sales of “Instant Party” by the Reaction label to the High Court. Talmy’s QC tells Mr. Justice Cross, “The group of young men who… Read More »Today in Whostory: 3/10/2024
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 play The I.C.I Fibres “A” Shft Dance at… Read More »Today in Whostory: 3/04/2024
1963 – The Detours play the Douglas House in Bayswater. 1963 – The Detours play the White Hart Hotel in Acton 1965 – The Who play Le Disque a Go!Go! Club in Lansdowne, Bournemouth, Hampshire 1969 – The Who end the recording of Tommy at IBC Studio A after almost five months in the studio.… Read More »Today in Whostory: 3/03/2024
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 1966 – The March issue of Beat Instrumental features an article titled “Making your own Recordings” by Pete Townshend… Read More »Today in Whostory: 3/01/2024
1963 – The Detours play the White Hart Hotel in Acton 1963 – The Detours play the Douglas House in Bayswater in the afternoon 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: 2/24/2024
1966 – The Who play the Esquire Club in Sheffield 1969 – The Who were scheduled to play Dreamland in Margate 1969 – Rolling Stone magazine publishes an article entitled “Who Finishing Rock Opera” 1970 – The Who play the City Hall in Hull 1971 – The Who hold their first official session for the… Read More »Today in Whostory: 2/15/2024