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Today in Whostory: 8/03/2025

    1965 – A Shindig crew films The Who at Twickenham Film Studio Stage 3 in London. They perform live-in-studio versions of “I Can’t Explain”, “Daddy Rolling Stone” and a new song, “My Generation”. The first song is later included in The Kids Are Alright.  The footage would be broadcast on the final shindig show on January 6, 1966

    1967 – The Who play the Dane County Coliseum in Madison, Wisconsin

    1968 – The Who play the Majestic Hills Theater in Lake Geneva. Opening was a band called Fuse who would later become Cheap Trick

    1971 – The Who play the Spectrum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    1972 – The three-record set Revelations (‘A Musical Anthology For Glastonbury Fayre’) is released in the U.K. with one Pete solo track, “Classified.”

    1976 – The Who play the first of two nights at the Capital Centre in Landover, Maryland. The group Law opens

    1988 – John plays at the 86 Street Music Hall in Vancouver, Canada

    1993 – Pete plays the second of two nights at the Community Theater in Berkley, California

    1995 – A planned Roger, John, Simon Townshend and Zak Starkey tour without orchestra called “From Tommy To Quadrophenia” is announced for Germany in November with shows in The Netherlands for December. The shows are later cancelled.

    1997 – The Who play the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel Township, New Jersey

    2002 – The Who play Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York

    2004 – The Who play the Neal S. Blaisdell Center in Honolulu, Hawaii

    2009 – Roger Daltrey is interviewed in Billboard. He announces that he will soon be touring with a new solo band made up of keyboardist Loren Gold, bassist Jon Button, drummer Scott Devours and guitarist and musical director Frank Simes. The tour, in reference to Roger’s voice, will be called the Use It Or Lose It tour. You can read the article here

    2010 – The Sun reports that Roger Daltrey is working with LiveNation trying to book acts for the Help For Heroes benefit concert scheduled to take place in Twickenham 12 September

    2012 – Roger Daltrey attends Steven Berkoff’s 75th birthday party at the Ivy Club in London