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
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: 3/15/2022
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: 3/14/2022
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: 3/12/2022
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: 3/10/2022
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: 3/04/2022
From http://twitter.com/BrianInAtlanta Mar 3 1969 The Who begin their final week of recording the Tommy album. Pete: “The last track we worked on was ‘The Overture’, demoed by me in a haze of exhaustion after everything else had been completed.” https://t.co/ybFdOyQrYu — The Who This Month (@BrianInAtlanta) Mar 3, 2022
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: 3/03/2022
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: 2/24/2022
From http://twitter.com/BrianInAtlanta Feb 18 1967 Pete Townshend announces in Disc and Music Echo that he is writing a massive opera with 25 acts to be recorded by The Who on 2 separate LP’s. This work will ultimately be compressed to the five-minute track “Rael”. https://t.co/De1xn900Lp — The Who This Month (@BrianInAtlanta) Feb 18, 2022