The Who: Madison Square Garden, New York NY
John Swenson, Sounds, 27 March 1976
IT'S AN old joke, but it's still happening so it must mean something. There we were eating the meat loaf special at the local watering hole, P. J. Kannen's, drinking down as much McSorley's ale and shots of Remy Martin as we could handle so we could be right to see The Who.
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