1963 – The Detours play the Oldfield Hotel in Greenford
1964 – The Who’s managers Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp place an ad for The Who in Melody Maker. It features the Richard Barnes lettering of “The Who “ and the first appearence of the slogan “Maximum R & B. “ Also in that issue is an address for The Who Fan Club. The Fan Club secretary is Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall who is also the Who’s publicist.
1964 – The Who play the Trade Union Hall in Watford
1965 – The Who play The King Mojo Club in Sheffield
1966 – The Who play Rheinhalle in Dusseldorf, Germany
1969 – The Who play at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. The Who are refused admittance to their hotel because the innkeeper considers them “long-haired hippie entertainers who smoke marijuana and cause trouble. “ The student committee has to find the Who lodging in nearby Lancaster, Ohio.
1970 – In Melody Maker, Chris Charlesworth pens “I See A Mad Moon Rising,” in which he recounts Keith’s antics before and after the October 29th Hammersmith Palais concert. In another article, Charlesworth interviews Bob Pridden.
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1970 – New Musical Express has part one of a large interview with Pete conducted by Richard Green. The interview concludes on the 14th
1973 – The Who play the final of three nights at the Odeon Cinema in Newcastle
1973 – The Chronicle, not content to let the matter drop, run an interview with four girls who felt insulted by Pete’s behavior at the 11/5 show at the Odeon Theatre in Newcastle, where The Who perform again that night
1975 – The Who’s European Continental tour continues with the second of two nights at the Freidrich Ebert Halle in Ludwigshaven, West Germany.
1977 – Pete goes on Nicky Horne’s radio show with demos intended for the new Who album. He plays “Who Are You,” “Sister Disco,” “Love Is Coming Down” and the rejected track “Like It The Way It Is.”
1987 – John and his band Rat Race Choir play The Chance in Poughkeepsie, New York
1995 – Who’s Next is reissued with seven bonus tracks and a lengthy essay by Pete Townshend detailing the tortured genesis of the album and the death of its concurrent film Lifehouse.
1997 – Pete records “Variations on Dirty Jobs“ on piano. It is later released on Scoop 3.
1998 – The John Entwistle Band continue their U.S. tour appearing at The Boar’s Head in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
1999 – NBC-TV premiers the mini-series The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns starring Roger Daltrey as Boric, King of the Fairies. Pete’s daughter Emma Townshend sings the love theme “We Can Fly Away”.You can hear “We Can Fly Away” from the movie here:
2005 – The Who – Tommy and Quadrophenia Live with Special Guests DVD is released
2006 – Pete and his partner Rachel Fuller have another Attic Jam at the Hotel Café in Los Angeles. Guest performers are Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins, and the actress Minnie Driver.
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2007 – PBS airs an interview with Roger on The Tavis Smiley Show
2008 – The last of the special In The Attic shows to date is held at The Troubadour in Los Angeles. Pete and Rachel Fuller perform “Sunrise”, Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward play “Blue Red and Grey”, and Pete is joined by Jakob Dylan for “The Kids Are Alright”, Mark Everett for “Let My Love Open The Door”, and Ben Gibbard for “Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand” before going solo for “The Acid Queen”, “Drowned” and “Won’t Get Fooled Again”. Before performing the final song, Pete says Barack Obama’s election victory that week was “the most wonderful result. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss? Maybe not.” The show ends with everyone singing “I’m One.”
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2009 – Roger plays the MGM Grand Theatre at Foxwoods in Mashantucket, Connecticut
2012 – Pete writes a blog on thewho.com. You can read it here
In case it goes missing:
PETE TOWNSHEND – TOUR DIARY 7TH NOVEMBER, 2012
Great to be in the USA on election day. I would have been happy for either candidate to win. There are pros and cons. The only longing I have is for the President to work more closely with the UK than he appears to have done before. As unpopular as they ended up with the deep thinkers, George W Bush and Tony Blair were friends, and that – to me – exemplified what I feel is most important about the relationship between the UK and the USA. We are above all else friends. Friendship is not ‘special’ (as in the ‘special relationship’), it is normal, and accepting…
And so the Who tour kicked off in the teeth of a hurricane, and our immediate duty to our millions of fans in the NorthEast is to promise that we will hopefully do more than just offer our prayers. While we’re here we’ll try to do something practical, as I am certain will all of our rock and pop buddies. Watch this space.
The shows so far? I’m doing great. The stage level is very quiet, and that suits me. I want to hang on to my hearing, which is still good enough to mix music like I did for the Quadrophenia Director’s Cut, and to cut my own demos at home. Roger is singing incredibly well. His vision is an interpretation of Quadrophenia rather than a straight narrative, and that seems to suit the period we are in as the two surviving members of the old Who, and our age. It FEELS great to me (I can’t see the screens behind me and I haven’t been able to see the entire set of projections because I was working right up until rehearsals) and that is the best measure for me. Roger and his creative team have clearly done a great job.
The audiences so far have been wonderful, and the shows promise to continue to improve. It’s great to see some old faces, but as always I’m glad to see a few younger people in the crowd, and I hope they haven’t been dragged along to check us out by nagging parents (or grandparents!).
Thanks to all of you who have bought my book.
Pete Townshend November 7th, 2012
2016 – Roger receives the Music Industry Trusts Award at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London. Jeremy Clarkson presented Roger with a chair…and an award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the music and entertainment industry and many charitable causes.