Month: March 2022

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 Me. Footage of The High Numbers performing (and Mods dancing) at the Railway Hotel the previous August are edited together with a recent studio shoot of “I Can’t Explain.” It is later released on the Who’s Better Who’s Best video.

1966 – The Who record “Barbara Ann,” “Substitute,” “You Rang,” “Man With Money” and “Dancing In The Street” at Aeolian Hall, Studio 1, BBC, London for Saturday Club

1966 – Substitute” is again re-issued on Reaction with a b-side instrumental credited to “The Who Orchestra” although it’s actually another Reaction label act The Graham Bond Organization. The title of the instrumental obviously aimed at Talmy is “Waltz For A Pig.”

1968 – The Who play the Municipal Auditorium in San Antonio, Texas.

1969 – Billboard reports that the forthcoming 45rpm release of “Pinball Wizard” will be Decca Records’ first single released in stereo

1971 – The Who re-assemble at the Record Plant Studios in New York City to record the new Lifehouse material. Sitting in on the sessions are Mountain’s Leslie West, Al Kooper on organ and Ken Ascher on piano. Kit Lambert is absent for most of the sessions and Felix Pappalardi, producer of Mountain as well as Cream, takes over the reins.

1975 – John and his band The Ox play Philadelphia’s Spectrum opening for Humble Pie. The show is recorded and broadcast later on the King Biscuit Flower Hour syndicated radio show and is released commercially in 1997

1975 – “Tommy” has its “World Premiere” in Dallas, Texas with Ann Margaret attending. There is footage from the event here

1976 – The Who play the Myriad Convention Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

1981 – The Who play the Gaumont Cinema in Southampton, Hampshire

1991 – The movie If Looks Could Kill, a spy comedy featuring Roger as “Blade,” is released.

“Death by Cameo: Singer Roger Daltrey appears as superspy Blade long enough to get his butt handed to him by Linda Hunt as Ilsa, who kills him using a necklace that unfurls into a whip.” (Source: /tvtropes.org)

1996 – The John Entwistle Band play Annie’s Entertainment Center in Cincinnati, Ohio

2002 – The Halifax Daily News reports that artist Greg Forrest has installed a seven-piece bronze recreation of Keith Moon’s drum kit after destruction, entitled “Heavy Metal,” at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia’s education gallery

2004 – Sarah Dempster in The Guardian pens an article called “Why I Love…Roger Daltrey”: “Loveable Laurel to Pete Townshend’s truculent Hardy, Roger Daltrey was – and, indeed, still is – the Who’s anchor, a graceless yet relentlessly honest reminder of his band’s working-class roots and a necessarily earthy foil for the enormously nosed guitarist’s artier excesses.”

2005 – The Hollywood Reporter says that Roger will play the antagonist in an untitled “mermaid drama” pilot for the WB network. Nathalie Kelley is set to play the mermaid adjusting to life in Miami. The pilot never surfaces.

2007 – Pete and Rachel hold another Attic Jam concert at La Zona Rosa in Austin. This show features performances from Martha Wainwright, Willy Mason, Mika, Alexi Murdoch and Joe Purdy. Watching from the audience are Peter Buck and Robyn Hitchcock

2012 – Roger plays at L’Olympia in Paris

2013 – The British and Irish Modern Music Institute (BIMM) announces that Roger has been appointed the first-ever Patron of BIMM Brighton.

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 Ballroom in Greenford

1969 – The Who play the Corn Exchange in Cambridge

1969 – The Who pre-tape an appearance on BBC 1’s How Late It Is miming to “Pinball Wizard.”, broadcast later that night

1975 – The U.S. Navy Recruiting Office puts out a two-LP set called Sounds Like The Navy. It contains an interview with Keith Moon conducted by Los Angeles DJ Sam Riddle. Keith plays Who songs and cuts from his new solo album

1975 – A double A-side single from the Tommy: The Movie soundtrack is released worldwide. “Listening To You/See Me, Feel Me” by Roger Daltrey, The Who and chorus is paired with the non-LP track “Overture from Tommy” performed by Pete. The single fails to chart in the U.S. or U.K.

1975 – MCA sends U.S. radio stations the promotional LP Who’s Ox. Side one contains Who songs written by John while side two has John solo songs

1975 – Roger is interviewed in his dressing room at Shepperton for The Old Grey Whistle Test

1976 – The Who play the Saint Paul Civic Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The show was originally scheduled for March 12, but postponed after Keith fell ill in Boston on the 1st

1977 – John “Wiggy” Wolff opens his “Light Fantastic” show at London’s Royal Academy of Art showing his work with lasers that began with the 1975 Who shows. Youtube has a video from the show here

1978 – The Who again return to the recording of the Who Are You album. Pete’s “Guitar And Pen” is recorded at Ramport Studios, London and RAK Studios and John’s “Trick Of The Light” is recorded this day and the next at RAK. Also around this time John’s “905” is recorded.

1980 – Pete releases his first completely solo single, “Rougn Boys” in the U.K. “And I Moved” is on the B-side. It will peak at #39, Pete’s only Top Forty solo hit in the U.K.

1981 – The Who play the first of two nights at the Gaumont Cinema in Southampton, Hampshire

1982 – John joins Ringo Starr during sessions for his Old Wave album at Startling Studios, Tittenhurst Park in London. Also along for the jam session are Eric Clapton, Ray Cooper and Joe Walsh. They produce the mostly instrumental “Everybody’s in a Hurry But Me”
You can listen to it on youtube here

1996 – The John Entwistle Band play Park West in Chicago, Illinois

2007 – Pete makes a “surprise” guest appearance during Ian McLagan’s show during the Austin Music Awards show

2007 – Pete is the keynote speaker at the South by Southwest Festival in Austin, Texas. He uses the address to announce the successful completion of The Method, the computer software program Pete imagined in 1970 that would turn fans’ personal information into musical sequences. Designed by mathematician and musician Lawrence Ball, the software will present applicants, called “sitters” with a series of questions that will then return a musical phrase that will belong to the sitter. A further press conference is announced for April 25th

2016 – The Who play the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2018 – Roger premiers his new song, “As Long As I Have You”

1963 – The Detours play the Mazenod Church Hall in Kilburn

1965 – The Who play Club Noreik in Tottenham

1965 – Billboard magazine includes I Can’t Explain in it’s “Breakout Singles” list

1966 – The Who play The Starlite Ballroom in Greenford

1967 – The Who play Granby Halls in Leicester

1971 – Melody Maker runs the eighth “The Pete Townshend Page” called “Learning to walk – the second time around.” He discusses the necessity of touring for The Who, a strong rumor about Brian Epstein’s plan to have The Beatles tour Sgt. Pepper’s with an orchestra and tapes, and how Glyn Johns will be recording the live film soundtrack using The Rolling Stones’ mobile recording equipment.

1973 – Roger appears on The Old Grey Whistle Test on BBC-2 to promote his first solo single “Giving It All Away”

1975 – John and his band The Ox are scheduled to appear at the Municipal Auditorium in Atlanta, Georgia with Peter Frampton as the supporting act, but the show was cancelled due to poor ticket sales

1975 – The Acton Gazette carries an article titled “Pete’s Kid Brother — But Simon’s Destined For Stardom In His Own Right”

1976 – The Who play the Dane County Coliseum in Madison, Wisconsin

2004 – Roger begins appearing in an infomercial on U.S. cable television hawking a seven-CD set called Legends of Rock ‘n Roll

2007 – The Who play the Ford Amphitheater in Tampa, Florida. Roger walks offstage unable to sing halfway through the opening song. Pete apologizes saying Roger has a viral infection complicated by severe dehydration. Who shows over the next nine days are cancelled including what was to have been The Who’s first live performance in Mexico.

2007 – Rachel announces on her blog that she and Pete will have their own music festival that summer called “Atticfest”. Unfortunately, it does not come to pass

2007 – VH1 Classic begins running a series of public service announcements as part of a “Rock Autism” campaign. Roger Daltrey is featured in one of the spots

2008 – Roger performs at the Childline Rocks benefit concert at the IndigO2 in London. Following Marillion and Fish, Roger and backing band Thunder perform “Two Thousand Years,” “The Kids Are Alright” and “Behind Blue Eyes.”

2008 – The compilation CD The Who: The Ultimate Collection is awarded Platinum status by the RIAA

2010 – Roger opens for Eric Clapton at the Amway Arena in Orlando