The Who: Would You Let Your Daughter Marry A Venusion?
Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 4 May 1968
TYPICAL WHO sound blasted in stereo from a battery of speakers – screaming guitar, vocals, bass and drums. But Roger Daltrey, John Entwhistle and Keith Moon were not involved. The "group" was all Pete Townshend.
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