Unofficial home for The Who for over 20 years
1964 – The Who play the Evershed Sports Pavilion on Harlequin Avenue in Brentford
1996 – Pete Townshend’s solo album Empty Glass is certified platinum by the RIAA sixteen years after its release.
1996 – The John Entwistle band play in San Diego at Belly Up Tavern
Just a test post! Please excuse our mess!
We should be done testing soon!
One or two more posts should do!
1963 – The Detours play The Oldfield Hotel in Greenford
1964 – The Who play the Goldhawk Social Club
1965 – The Who play the Agincourt Ballroom in Camberley, Surrey
1966 – The Who play the Eltham Baths in Eltham Hill, London
1968 – The Who and their entourage board a bus for a three-day trip to Canada.
1973 – The Who gather in London at the offices of A&M to receive gold records for the orchestral version of Tommy.
1975 – John’s fourth solo album, Mad Dog, is released. With only one or two exceptions, the album is roundly panned by the rock press and sells less than John’s previous efforts. It does not chart in the U.K. and reaches only #192 in its one week on the Billboard charts.
1976 – The Who play the Olympiahalle in Munich, West Germany
1976 – “Squeeze Box” hits its U.K. chart peak at #10.
1976 – Record Mirror reports that Roger was not nominated for an Academy Award for his performance in Tommy
1981 – The Who play the Deeside Leisure Centre in Queensferry, Flintshire, Wales
1991 – Roger attends the premiere of Buddy’s Song in London. The movie starring and co-produced by Roger, is based on the Nigel Hinton novel Buddy and a 1986 TV adaptation that also starred Roger. In the movie, Roger plays a middle-aged Rocker (as opposed to Mod) raising a teenage son who wants to enter the music business. The actor playing the son, Chesney Hawkes, releases a single from the movie, “The One And Only,” that goes to #1 in the U.K. charts
1995 – Fourteen days after the 25th anniversary of the performance, an expanded CD of Live At Leeds is released. It includes the entirety of the non-Tommy part of the concert (with a few edits) plus “Amazing Journey/Sparks” from Tommy. Almost all of the “crackle” present on the original recording is removed electronically. The CD is released both in jewel-case form and as a limited-edition album sized package that includes reproductions of the Who documents that were in the original album release, providing more “Rare Who documents Discovered In Album!” items to show up on ebay. The CD reaches #59 on the British charts.
1996 – The John Entwistle Band play The Congress Club in Phoenix, Arizona
2006 – Pete moves into his home studio, Oceanic, to record the backing tracks for the new Who album Endless Wire. Pete plays everything himself for the most part. Pino Palladino (bass), John Bundrick (keyboards) and Peter Huntingdon (drums) are pulled in to give a Who-like rock band sound to some tracks.
2007 – The Who play the US Airways Center in Phoenix, Arizona
2010 – Roger Daltrey opens for Eric Clapton at the BJCC Arena in Birmingham
2013 – The Who play the Concert to benefit Teen Cancer America at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York
1964 – The Who play at the Oldfield Hotel In Greenford
1965 – The Who hold an in-store appearance at W.G. Stores, Ltd. in Shepherd’s Bush.
1965 – Cashbox magazine’s “Bios for Deejays” features The Who
1967 – The Who return to London and head to De Lane Lea Music studio and to the Saville Theatre for rehearsals. A German film crew was on-hand for their arrival at the airport and attended the rehearsals. Footage would be used in a German TV special later in the year.
1967 – The second half of an interview with Pete in International Times is published. In it he discusses the art of auto-destruction and his ability to make social comments through pop songs.
1968 – The Who are taken to an abandoned warehouse in Hollywood by director Austin John Marshall who shoots a Monkees-style promo film for “Call Me Lightning” featuring a mechanical Keith being pursued by the other band members. It is later featured in the movie The Kids Are Alright with “Cobwebs and Strange” placed on the soundtrack.
1976 – The Who play the Hallenstadion in Zürich, Switzerland
1981 – The first Who single recorded after Keith Moon’s death, “You Better You Bet,” is released in the U.K. The b-side is John’s song “The Quiet One.” It reaches #9 on the charts.
1993 – Pete completes two years of on-and-off recording for his next solo album Psychoderelict and the master tapes are delivered to Atlantic Records
1995 – Roger Daltrey’s character, Hugh Fitzcairn, is killed on Highlander: The Series. The name of the episode is “Star-Crossed.”
1996 – Tommy Keene releases his album Ten Years After featuring a cover of “It’s Not True”. You can listen to it on youtube here
2001 – Rap artist Hesher releases his self-titled CD containing “Whose Generation,” a rap version of “My Generation.” You can listen to it on youtube here
2004 – Pete delivers a diary entry from New York. He is there to play the new Who tracks for Universal Records CEO Doug Morris
2008 – Virgin Radio in the U.K. makes headlines by banning The Beatles’ music from the station after listeners vote them off. Consulted for comment, Roger Daltrey says “I didn’t like all their music. I can understand that everything has its sell-by date.”
2010 – Roger opens for Eric Clapton at Sommet Center in Nashville, Tennessee
2013 – Simon plays a solo show at Joe’s Pub in New York City. You can watch the show on youtube starting here
Visit simon’s website for photos of the show here
2016 – The Who play the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan
2019 – Doug Sandom, drummer with The Detours dies at the age of 89
1930 – Doug Sandom, drummer for The Detours, was born in Greenford, England. He passed away on February 27,2019 at the age of 89.
1965 – The Who play the Lynx Club in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire
1965 – New Musical Express runs a short article on The Who’s name changes called “Third time lucky name.” It quotes French television producer Alain de Sedouy calling them “a logical musical expression of the bewilderment and anarchy of London’s teenagers.”
1966 – The Who perform without Roger at the Starlight Ballroom in Boston. Roger had come down with laryngitis
1966 – Melody Maker and Record Mirror carry an ad for Substitute on Reaction records. Record Mirror also covers the news that The Who have changed labels
1967 – The Who play the Palazzetto dello Sport in Rome, Italy
1967 – The Who play the Piper Club in Rome, Italy
1968 – The Who return to Los Angeles and Gold Star studios to finish recording and mixing “Call Me Lightning” and “Little Billy.” Prior to this, they head up to the Hollywood Hills for a photo shoot.
1975 – John and his band Ox play the Long Beach Arena in Long Beach, Calfornia
1975 – MCA holds a promotional party for the release of the Mad Dog album. Both Pete, in town to promote Tommy: The Movie, and Los Angeles-native Keith attend
1975 – Variety reports on a marketing test run to find ways to promote the movie of Tommy to non-rock audiences.
1990 – Pete publicly backs a £500,000 appeal to fund a new science, art and technology block for a girls’ school.
1999 – Larry Smith’s Pete Townshend: The Minstrel’s Dilemma, a book analyzing Pete’s writing with and without The Who, is published by Praegar Publishers.
2000 – Roger goes down under performing with the British Rock Symphony at Newcastle Entertainment Centre
2000 – Pete presents Lifehouse Live at the Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London
2001 – The Who announce that they will not be participating in the planned tribute CD to Sun Records. They blame scheduling conflicts
2002 – Pete Townshend: Music From Lifehouse DVDd: Music From Lifehouse, a video of his 2000 concert at Sadler’s Wells, is released on DVD and VHS in the U.S.
2004 – Rolling Stone reports that two new Who songs, “Real Good Looking Boy” and “Old Red Wine” will be released in March on the compilation CD Then & Now. They also report that Pete has “finished five backing tracks” that Roger will soon complete with vocals
2006 – The Bristol Evening Post runs a story about Jean O’Brien, a mother who still carries a scar on her face after Pete popped a guitar string onstage at the Locarno Ballroom in July 1966. Brave lass she is as she has plans to see The Who again at their upcoming show in Bristol.
2007 – The Who play the Long Beach Arena in Long Beach, California
2008 – The CD Corner Stone Cues Presents: “Eton Path” is released featuring an orchestral cover of “Underture”
2009 – Roger performs at a private event at the Bloomsbury Ballroom in London attended by Arsenal’s Manager Arsène Wenger and left-back Gael Clichy. Roger, a long-time Arsenal fan, performs a set of Who hits accompanied by Pete’s brother Simon.
2013 – The Who play the Dunkin’ Donuts Center in Providence, Rhode Island
1963 – The Detours play The White Hart Hotel in Acton
1965 – The Who play The Ealing Club in West London
1965 – The Hammersmith & Shepherds Bush Gazette reports on The Who’s appearance on “Sixteen Million Teenagers”
1966 – The Who perform without Roger at the Wellington Ballroom. Roger had come down with laryngitis
1967 – The Who play the Palalido in Milan, Italy
1967 – Melody Maker reports that The Who will make their first trip to the United States on March 23rd to play the Murray The K shows in New York.
1967 – The Who are photographed by Luciano Minghetti for the Italian magazine “Giovani” (from the 16 March issue)
1970 – The Universal Spiritual League releases an album to celebrate Meher Baba’s birthday called, appropriately enough, Happy Birthday. It is produced by Pete and features six Pete solo tracks, the first solo tracks released by any of The Who’s members.
1977 – Keith Moon checks himself into Cedars-Sinai Hospital to dry out for three days
1981 – The Who play the City Hall in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear. You can listen to it on youtube here
1994 – Roger and the Spin Doctors perform “Substitute” on The Late Show with David Letterman. According to the New Yorker this was the most-watched episode of “Late Show with David Letterman” until the final episode in 2015.
2000 – Roger goes down under performing with the British Rock Symphony at Adelaide Entertainment Centre
2000 – Pete presents Lifehouse Live at the Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London
2003 – A tribute CD to the late George Harrison, Songs From The Material World, is released with the Steve Luongo band Torque covering “Here Comes The Sun.” Using an archival John bass performance, the track is credited to “John Entwistle.”
2004 – Roger pays a return visit to the former Who-haunt The Goldhawk Club for an interview for London Tonight News. It airs on his birthday, March 1
2006 – Pete lists everyone who commented on The Boy Who Heard Music designating them “sitters”, i.e., candidates for inclusion in The Method, a revival of ideas he first proposed during the Lifehouse project 35 years before.
2007 – The Who play the Save Mart Center in Fresno, California
2007 – Pete begins blogging selections from his unfinished autobiography Pete Townshend – (who he?). Some parts of it will not make it into the official release Who I Am
2007 – Pete is interviewed in the Arizona Republic. He denounces YouTube as “copyright thieves”.
2008 – U.S. State Department spokesman Tom Casey speaks on Cuba’s transfer of power from Fidel Castro to his brother Raul: “I used the analogy … from a Who song, ‘Meet the new boss, he’s the same as the old boss.'”
2010 – Roger is back in the U.S. and back on the road, opening for Eric Clapton at Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh. You can see a clip from the show on youtube here
2014 – Roger Daltrey sings for a performance of Wilko Johnson at Shepherd’s Bush Empire. Bob Geldof and Top Gear’s Richard Clarkson and Richard Hammond are in the audience. At the time, Wilko had been informed that he would be dying soon of pancreatic cancer. It turns out later to have been a misdiagnosis.
2020 – Pete performs at the Peter Green Tribute show at the London Palladium
1963 – The Detours play the White Hart Hotel in Acton
1963 – The Detours play the Douglas House in Bayswater in the afternoon
1966 – The Who perform without Roger at the Victoria Ballroom in Chesterfield. Roger had come down with laryngitis
1967 – The Who play two shows at the Palazzetto dello Sport in Bologna, Italy
1968 – The Who play The Winterland in San Francisco
1968 – Disc and Music Echo features a brief article titled “Who History TV” stating that The Who will appear in an hour long history of pop
1968 – Rolling Stone magazine votes The Who the Best Band Of 1967. This issue also features a short article titled “Who Take New Album on Faith”
1969 – The Who head back into IBC Studio A for more Tommy work.
1973 – Pete is interviewed by Charles Shaar Murray in New Musical Express. He details how he got Eric Clapton to play at the Rainbow Concert the month before.
1973 – Billboard magazine carries an ad for Ode Records “Tommy” with London Symphony Orchestra
1974 – The Who play the Palais des Sports in Lyon. After this show, most of the hated backing tapes for the live Quadrophenia are packed away, never to be used again.
1978 – Keith attended a charity event and was photographed with Labour politician Marcia Falkender
1981 – The Who play the City Hall in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
1982 – MTV begins the “I Want My MTV” ad campaign featuring Pete, among others, declaring the phrase.
1987 – Roger and his wife Heather attend the 30th annual Grammy Awards show at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles
1990 – Pete is scheduled to appear, via video, at an all-star tribute for Roy Orbison at the Universal Amphiteater in Los Angeles. Footage found does not indicate he was included
1993 – Q magazine prints a letter by Chris Charlesworth decrying the sorry state of the Who’s CD catalog and lack of a career-spanning boxset retrospective. The next day, Pete calls him up and gives him permission to begin a CD reissue program and the compilation of a Who CD boxset.
1994 – Pete, Roger and John Entwistle are reunited, somewhat, at Carnegie Hall as part of “Daltrey Sings Townshend: A Celebration,” an all-star-assisted Roger performance of Pete’s songs with an orchestra led by Michael Kamen. Although Roger and John perform together, Pete performs his two numbers, “And I Moved” and “Who Are You,” without either of his former bandmates. The three do not appear together on stage until the finale, a performance of “Join Together,” where Roger and all the guest stars group on stage. Other guests include The Spin Doctors doing “I Can’t Explain,” Alice Cooper doing “I’m A Boy,” Linda Perry doing “Dr. Jimmy,” Lou Reed doing “Now And Then,”Roger, Sinead O’Connor and The Chieftans doing “Baba O’Riley” and “After The Fire,” and Eddie Vedder performing “Let My Love Open The Door,” “Squeeze Box,” “Naked Eye,” and “My Generation.” A compilation of the two shows is cablecast that weekend as a pay-per-view special. Eddie Vedder’s performances are edited out, according to Roger, “because he’s a star.”
1996 – The John Entwistle Band plays Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa, Oklahoma
1996 – Pete presents the Gong for Best Group to Oasis at the Brit Awards
1998 – Roger Daltrey’s A Celebration: The Music Of Pete Townshend CD is reissued by the House Of Blues label
2004 – Roger attends Brian Wilson’s performance of his Smile album in London
2013 – The Who play the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire
1963 – The Detours play The Oldfield Hotel in Greenford
1964 – The Who play St. Mary’s Hall in Putney opening for Brian Poole and The Tremeloes
1965 – The Who play The Marquee Club in London
1965 – “I Can’t Explain” enters the NME chart at #28
1967 – The Who play the Palazzetto dello Sport in Torino, Italy
1968 – The Who play The Winterland in San Francisco
1969 – The Who take part in a charity event at the Roundhouse in London. Proceeds pay the legal fees of students who had staged a sit-in at the London School of Economics. Other performers include Feathers (David Bowie’s mime troupe), Cat Stevens, Pete Brown’s Battered Ornaments, the Third Ear Band, and Occasional Word Ensemble.
1975 – John and his band Ox play the second of two nights at the Winterland in San Francisco, California
1980 – Keith Altham, The Who’s press agent, defends The Who in a letter to Melody Maker. It was in response to a letter from a fan who felt the group had lost contact with the record-buying public.
1986 – Pete plays with The Rolling Stones at a private party at the 100 Club in London. The party is held to commemorate the death of the Stone’s long-time keyboardist Ian Stewart. Together Pete and the Stones play “Barefootin'” and “Harlem Shuffle.”
1994 – Roger performs the first of two nights at Carnegie Hall as part of “Daltrey Sings Townshend”. The second night is broadcast as a PPV and released on CD and DVD
1999 – The CD Humanary Stew: A Tribute to Alice Cooper is released in the U.S. Roger Daltrey sings “No More Mr. Nice Guy” with Slash on guitar.
2000 – Roger goes down under performing with the British Rock Symphony at Perth Burswood Dome
2002 – Gordon Giltrap releases a two-CD best-of called Collection featuring John on bass on “Who Knows Where Tomorrow Goes.”
2007 – The Who play the Reno Events Center in Reno, Nevada
2011 – Roger presents the “Godlike Genius” award to Dave Grohl at the NME Awards in London. Afterwards he joins the Grohl’s band The Foo Fighters to sing “Young Man Blues”. Watch a short clip from the awards on YouTube here
1964 – The Who play at the Oldfield Hotel In Greenford
1968 – The Who head up the coast to play Bill Graham’s Fillmore West in San Francisco where a brand new $35,000 P.A. system had been installed. Opening acts are The Nice and Cannonball Adderley and his Sextet. Who manager Kit Lambert flies over from London to supervise recordings of this show and the next two nights for a live album called The Who – Live At The Fillmore set for release that June. The album is never officially released.
1969 – The Who play the University in Liverpool
1969 – Disc magazine reports that Pete sat in for Steve Marriott during a recent Small Faces’ recording session after Marriott left the group.
1971 – The Who are booked to appear at the Young Vic Theatre but fail to show up for some unspecified reason. Thunderclap Newman performs as a substitute with Keith on maracas and young Who fan Jeff Stein on tambourine.
1974 – The Who play the Parc des Expositions in Nancy, France
1975 – John and his band Ox play the Winterland in San Francisco, California
1975 – The soundtrack to Tommy: The Movie is released for the U.S. market a month ahead of the movie. It contains five new Townshend compositions and surpasses the chart position of the original album, reaching #2 despite widespread negative reviews in the rock press. Billboard magazine carries two ads for the album
1988 – Pete attends actor Sir John Mills’ 80th birthday party.
1996 – The John Entwistle band play in San Antonio at Sneakers
2000 – The Band Of The Royal Netherlands Air Force releases 1999 Symfo with a cover of the “Overture From Tommy” and “The Acid Queen.”
2005 – Petra Haden’s a cappella recording Petra Haden Sings The Who Sell Out is released by Bar/None records
2006 – A special on the year’s Rock ‘n Roll Fantasy Camp airs on The Learning Channel
2006 – Roger attends a dress rehearsal for “Quad” a special one night only musical staging of the Who’s Quadrophenia scheduled for March 10.
2013 – The Who play Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, New Jersey
2013 – The CD “12-12-12 The Concert for Sandy Relief” is released feauring three live Who songs from the event
