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@CharlesPPierce has a feeling ‘21 is going to be a good year, but he has no reason to be overoptimistic. https://t.co/8YRkzI6Mg5
— The Who This Month (@BrianInAtlanta) December 31, 2020
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@CharlesPPierce has a feeling ‘21 is going to be a good year, but he has no reason to be overoptimistic. https://t.co/8YRkzI6Mg5
— The Who This Month (@BrianInAtlanta) December 31, 2020
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31 Dec 1966 The Who at The Roundhouse between Pink Floyd and The Move. Pete is on his 2nd acid trip. Inventor of instrument smashing Gustav Metzger does the liquid crystal lighting effects. https://t.co/CmMgyGlhgk pic.twitter.com/QepVTYNjuB
— The Who This Month (@BrianInAtlanta) December 31, 2020
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
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
2010 – Roger appears on Jools’ Annual Hootenanny and performs “I’m a Man” (Mannish Boy)
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One correction for sure, and this comes from multiple reliable sources, is that Keith broke his collarbone in the fall. You will notice he doesn't have much motion in that right shoulder.
— The Who This Month (@BrianInAtlanta) December 30, 2020
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Here's another video from the same performance as I dig into the records: https://t.co/YE4wXbiR0X
— The Who This Month (@BrianInAtlanta) December 30, 2020
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Scanning my documentation, the story that Keith fell down the steps at his pub The Crown and Cushion breaking his collarbone shortly before this and the Viv Stanshall cord yank story all come from Tony Fletcher's Moon bio. Perhaps time for a correction?
— The Who This Month (@BrianInAtlanta) December 30, 2020
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30 Dec 1970 The Who tape their appearance on Top of the Pops Into '71 for New Year's Eve. Keith, who recently broke his arm in a fall, mimes by having Viv Stanshall pull a cord tied to his wrist when he is on camera. https://t.co/Vzdbefd5Z6
— The Who This Month (@BrianInAtlanta) December 30, 2020
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I sat on a boat dock for an hour w/Keith Moon & Roger Daltrey waiting to interview Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits. Asked them what time it was, nothing more. Nobody in Chattanooga had heard of The Who in '67. Yeah, I have receipts: https://t.co/ivngFbRHu0 pic.twitter.com/0GxV2FGOu5
— Steve Johnson 2020 (@SteveJohnsonTFP) December 30, 2020
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Roger Daltrey in "Rock Camp: The Movie" coming Jan. 15. https://t.co/XkdFNp2Iem
— The Who This Month (@BrianInAtlanta) December 30, 2020
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”
1972 – Billboard magazine carries of photo of The Who receiving gold and platinum albums from MCA president.