Tag: The Who
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Incredible Archive of Lost Photos Unearthed of Led Zep, Bowie, Rolling Stones…
In 2015 it’s only ironic hipsters who don’t have a camera on their phone, and every concert audience you attend is littered with people taking low quality photos, selfies and video footage on their smartphones. This has become an issue for the likes of Jack White who went to the extraordinary length on his last…
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The Who and Wilko Johnson: Live at The Royal Albert Hall
The Teenage Cancer Trust concerts have become a much loved staple of London’s live scene for over a decade. A week long series of gigs, including one comedy night, curated by Roger Daltrey, all to raise money for an organisation that helps teenagers who have been diagnosed with cancer. The cause is…
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40 Years Ago Today: Keith Moon Replaced By Fan From Crowd
Forty years ago today The Who played perhaps their most infamous show… On the 20th November 1973 The Who were playing the Cow Palace, a charmingly named venue near San Francisco in support of their Quadrophenia album. In the audience that evening was nineteen year old Scot Halpin who had just moved to San Francisco…
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Keith Moon “lined up for the Olympics”
There’s a great story reported by RollingStone.com that says the London Olympic Committee has approached Keith Moon’s agent to see if the drummer would like to take part in the summer’s festivities? It is of course refreshing that the Olympic Committee is not being ageist, and is prepared to overlook Moon’s past bad behaviour at…
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