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PA Media put WHO by @TheWho in their top 5 albums of 2019. https://t.co/mjY8ntdjk8
— The Who This Month (@BrianInAtlanta) December 31, 2019
Month: December 2019
Today’s News – December 31, 2019 at 11:43AM
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@KenneyJones recalls the incident that got @TheWho and The Small Faces kicked out of Australia. https://t.co/XHBBgVqjZv via @YouTube https://t.co/XHBBgVqjZv via @YouTube
— The Who This Month (@BrianInAtlanta) December 31, 2019
Today in Whostory: 12/31/2019
1964 – The Who play a New Year’s Eve Dance in Pinner, Middlesex
1965 – The Who appear with The Rolling Stones and The Kinks on a special Ready Steady GO! entitled The New Year Starts Here!
1966 – The Who play The Roundhouse in Chalk Farm, London
1968 – The Who mime to “I Can See For Miles,” “Magic Bus “ and the Meaty, Beaty, Big & Bouncy version of “I’m A Boy. “ on the French TV special “Surprise Partie”
1969 – Pop Goes The Sixties airs with a clip of The Who miming to I Can See For Miles recorded on the 16th
1970 – BBC1 broadcasts “Into 71” featuring The Who performing “Naked Eye” and “I Don’t Even Know Myself”
1980 – Pete’s staff confronts him with bad news. He is ¬£500,000 in debt due to the combination of the recent purchase of a country estate and an unexpected printing bill at his publishing company. He is soon forced to sell off his barge company and The Magic Bus Bookstore (to Penguin Books) to raise cash.
1998 – John Power of the group Cast tells New Musical Express that he recorded the demos for the forthcoming Cast album at John Entwistle’s home studio in Gloucestershire with Bobby Pridden engineering.
1999 – Roger is scheduled to perform with the British Rock Symphony on New Year’s Eve as the 1900’s turn into the 2000’s at a charity event at The Ronald Reagan Building in Washington D.C. but it is canceled due to fears of a terrorist attack.
2007 – Ringo Starr holds a non-alcoholic-beverage party and charity gig in Surrey to bring in the new year. Fellow musicians and teetotalers Eric Clapton and Pete join him on stage under the band name Totally Abandoned for a loose rendition of classic tunes. Those in the know get in for a £50 donation
Today’s News – December 30, 2019 at 02:10PM
From http://twitter.com/BrianInAtlanta
…and claims not to have heard the album at the time. He is not alone. The album flops in the U.K. and is not released in the U.S. until 1970. Tommy will come out and become a huge success before anyone notices The Pretty Things' prior milestone. https://t.co/CmMgyGlhgk
— The Who This Month (@BrianInAtlanta) December 30, 2019
Today’s News – December 30, 2019 at 02:10PM
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Dec 1968 – According to members of The Pretty Things, Pete Townshend shows up at the Track Records Christmas party with a copy of their newly released album S.F. Sorrow, the first album-length rock opera, and plays it for the guests. Pete, however does not remember this…
— The Who This Month (@BrianInAtlanta) December 30, 2019
Today’s News – December 30, 2019 at 01:52PM
From http://twitter.com/BrianInAtlanta
The top albums of 2019. Happy to argue — but I'm right. :o)https://t.co/AZ8hGD1VDR@lizzo @springsteen @BlackPumasMusic @robertellis_ @TheHighwomen @TheWho @jonregen @RisingApp @tanya_tucker @tomwaits
— Gary Graff (@GraffonMusic) December 30, 2019
Today’s News – December 30, 2019 at 01:51PM
From http://twitter.com/BrianInAtlanta
WHO'S BEST?: Analog & Digital Comparisonhttps://t.co/hp670i2P6r@TheWho #TheWho pic.twitter.com/Y0msolrEOM
— ana(dia)log (@anadialog) December 30, 2019
Today’s News – December 30, 2019 at 01:44PM
From http://twitter.com/BrianInAtlanta
Deeply saddened by the death of Neil Innes. I fell for Neil’s humour and humanity with the Rutland Weekend Television album in 1976. Big fan ever since and saw/met him many but not enough times. Loved his brilliant witty music, loved him. Mankind will miss his wry sagely wisdom.
— Mark Lewisohn (@marklewisohn) December 30, 2019
Today’s News – December 30, 2019 at 01:44PM
From http://twitter.com/BrianInAtlanta
Deeply saddened by the death of Neil Innes. I fell for Neil’s humour and humanity with the Rutland Weekend Television album in 1976. Big fan ever since and saw/met him many but not enough times. Loved his brilliant witty music, loved him. Mankind will miss his wry sagely wisdom.
— Mark Lewisohn (@marklewisohn) December 30, 2019
Today in Whostory: 12/30/2019
1966 – The Who play the Cheam Baths Hall in Cheam, Surrey
1967 – The Who play at the Pier Ballroom in Hastings.
1970 – The Who pre-record “I Don’t Even Know Myself” and “Naked Eye” for a BBC-1 New Year’s Eve special, “Into ’71”