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Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, May 1969
A DOUBLE ALBUM can often prove a boring disappointment these days, with the gimmick presentation becoming more important than the quality of the music. Pete ...
The Who: 30 Years Of Maximum R&B
Review by Jon Savage, MOJO, July 1994
APART FROM THE BARRON KNIGHTS AT BERTRAM MILLS Circus, the first group I ever saw live was The Who: It could have been Spooky Tooth, ...
The Who: My Generation Deluxe Edition (Polydor) ****
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, October 2002
BEFORE NEW, larger sound systems ushered in rock in 1966-7, there was beat music, a tighter, more driving sound based on pushing club-scale amplification to ...
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AUDIO: The Who's John Entwistle (1994)
Interview by Johnny Black, Rock's Backpages Audio, August 1994
The Ox talks about the making of classic Who songs such as 'I'm A Boy' and 'My Generation', naming Led Zeppelin, the endless rows, and tells a handful of great Keith Moon stories
File format: mp3; in 3 parts, total file sizes: 68.7meg, total interview length: 1h 14' 58" sound quality: ****
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The Who: Who Are Going Around In 'Circles'
Interview by Keith Altham, NME, March 1966
FOLLOW this closely – this is the saga of the group that is running around in "Circles" – who else but the Who? ...
With Who And 'Birds At Paris Allez-Oop!
Report by Keith Altham, NME, April 1966
READY, Steady, Allez-oops, from the Locomotive in Paris last Friday, was largely held together by the efforts of the Who and the Yardbirds, who were ...
The Who: Drummer Moon On Zither, Double-Track Tuba, On Who LP
Interview by Keith Altham, NME, October 1966
IN AN Italian restaurant off London's Soho last Thursday, which boasts on the menu, "hilarious waiters and spaghetti alla vongole on Sunday" there was baby ...
The Who: Who's For A Merry Xmas!
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, NME, December 1966
WHO'S FOR a merry Christmas, then – if we are to judge by their seasonal bounce up into the NME Top Twenty this week with ...
Jimi Hendrix, The Who: Saville Theatre, London
Live Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, February 1967
Jimi Hendrix-Who battle at Saville ...
Miles Interviews Pete Townshend
Interview by Miles, International Times, February 1967
WHO? Pete Townshend, that's Who. Lead guitarist, song-writer, destructivist for this off-number-oned-pop group. He walks, he talks, he smashes. The WHO is the most popular ...
Monterey Pop Festival: Inside Looking Out
Interview by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, July 1967
BEAT: Just wanted to get your comments on what's happening here in Monterey this weekend. ...
The Who, Vanilla Fudge: Saville Theatre, London
Live Review by Derek Boltwood, Record Mirror, October 1967
OH MY GOODNESS yes. It was definitely an ear-splitting, mind-blowing, supersonic-sounding sensation at the Saville last Sunday. ...
The Who: Who Ready To Hit You With New Ideas
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, NME, October 1967
AFTER six weeks with "the last Schmaltz" it is good to find the Who back in the charts with a new single, 'I Can See ...
The Who: Who Needs To Take Pop Seriously? Asks Pete Townshend
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, December 1967
PETE TOWNSHEND is as unpredictable as a badly made Roman candle. He fizzes and spurts, showers light and occasionally explodes. ...
The Who: Would You Let Your Daughter Marry A Venusion?
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 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 ...
Report and Interview by Michael Lydon, New York Times, September 1968
THE WHO PLAY rock "n’ roll music ("it’s got a back beat, you can’t lose it," says Chuck Berry). Not art-rock, acid-rock, or any type ...
The Who: Bus Ride Back To Pop 30 For Who
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, September 1968
THE STATES are where the Who now have their biggest hits, most fan fever, and excitement. Pete Townsend, Keith Moon, Roger Daltrey and John Entwistle ...
The Who: Tackling The Most Serious Project Of Their Lives
Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, November 1968
"THAT'S A nasty letter. What's all that about?" inquired a menacing, dramatically dressed Roger Daltrey, clutching a copy of the MM and noting a communication ...
Rolling Stones: The Greatest Show On Earth
Report by Keith Altham, NME, December 1968
THE ROLLING STONES put in some overtime last Wednesday when they spent 17 hours working on their telethon production of The Rock and Roll Circus ...
Interview by Miles, International Times, May 1969
THIS INTERVIEW is the edited result of a two hour tape recorded Sunday May 4 at Miles's house. The story of The Who's two volume ...
Interview by Miles, International Times, June 1969
M: IS THERE any musical influence on this album at all? Outside of the WHO itself I suppose the nearest thing is The Mothers, except ...
Comment by Charlie Gillett, Record Mirror, June 1969
COLLECTORS of rhythm and blues music are doomed to perpetual frustration, as they witness one white singer after another plundering the culture they love. Occasionally, ...
Interview by Keith Altham, Rave, July 1969
CONDUCTING an interview with Keith Moon is rather like running a mental obstacle course with a megalomaniac (his manager's reference, not mine), with imminent danger ...
The Who: Fillmore East, New York NY
Live Review by Mike Jahn, New York Times, October 1969
THE WHO BRINGS ROCK OPERA HERETommy Begins 6-Day Run at the Fillmore East ...
Review by Richard Williams, Times, The, May 1970
THE IMPORTANCE of The Who lies not only in their excellence, but in the crucial attitude of their leader, Pete Townshend. ...
The Who: Live At Leeds (Track)
Review by Rob Partridge, Record Mirror, May 1970
'Young Man'; 'Substitute'; 'Summertime Blues'; 'Shakin' All Over'; 'My Generation'; 'Magic Bus'. ...
The Who: At The Metropolitan Opera House
Live Review by Al Aronowitz, Rolling Stone, July 1970
THE WHO is a group that was nurtured in gimmickry. I remember five years ago Brian Jones calling me up on the trans-Atlantic phone to ...
From the Marquee to the Met: Watching The Who
Interview by Miles, Crawdaddy!, September 1970
SAY THE WORD. "Who". Who did you think of? Pete Townshend, great underrated rock guitarist adrift in a Sargasso sea of eulogies to Clapton and ...
The Isle of Wight Festival: 5 Days of Peace, Music and Love
Report by uncredited writer, Mick Farren, International Times, September 1970
2011 note: this report on the 1970 IoW festival is led off by Mick Farren but includes contributions by other, unnamed IT writers. The title ...
Roger Daltrey: The Sounds Talk In
Interview by Penny Valentine, Sounds, October 1970
DO YOU feel your position as a singer with the Who is as influential as you'd like it to be? ...
Interview by Keith Altham, Record Mirror, February 1971
WHITHER the Who? you might ask, for despite their Live At Leeds album and Pete Townshend's recently announced plans for "musically computerised character analysis" we ...
The Who: Forest Hills Tennis Stadium, Queens NY
Live Review by Mike Jahn, New York Times, July 1971
The Who Play First Program Of '71 Here Despite Downpour ...
Keith Moon: Pitch And Bowl For A Pig!
Report by Keith Altham, Record Mirror, September 1971
THERE WAS a Moon landing in Lyne, Surrey last week when the Who's very own 'lunar-tick' did his bit for his new community by putting ...
Review by Dave Marsh, Creem, October 1971
WHO'S NEXT IS TO the Who what the White Album must've been to the Beatles. After Tommy, which was a concept-rock summit, not, as commonly ...
The Who: Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy
Review by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, December 1971
WHO FANS have been saying it for years: "Those bastards at Decca! Why don't they put out an album of early singles?" For the Who ...
The Who: Meaty Beaty Big And Bouncy (Decca)
Review by Jonh Ingham, Phonograph Record, December 1971
WELL, THEY'VE (and we all know who they are) finally gotten around to putting 'I Can't Explain', 'The Seeker', and 'Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere' onto an ...
Comment by John Swenson, Crawdaddy!, December 1971
WHO NIGHT. The crowd waits reverently, attention vaguely focused on the massive half-ton fortress of amplifiers looming in the shadows of the dimly lit stage. ...
The Who: Meaty Beaty Big And Bouncy
Review by Dave Marsh, Creem, February 1972
THERE ISN'T MUCH to say. They're really let us down this time. I don't know if anyone else resents it, but I do. Why reissue ...
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, April 1972
2005 note: As well as being their drummer and resident comedian, Keith Moon was the Who's PR man. Journalists unfamiliar with the group may have ...
Pete Townshend part1: The True Saga Of Clapton's Rainbow Gig
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, February 1973
IF YOU TURN up at the famous Track office in Soho's historic Old Compton Street, you're sure of a big surprise – there's a glitzy ...
Pete Townshend part 2: If The Who Split We'd Really Have To Own Up
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, March 1973
PETER TOWNSHEND is an amiable sort of dude. He sits in Track Records' office, with booze and dog to hand, and talks about anything that ...
Roger Daltrey: Who Does What In The Who
Interview by Tony Stewart, NME, April 1973
WHAT'S HAPPENED to the Who? Pete SHOULD be writing and recording for the Who. John Entwistle SHOULD be concentrating on the Who's future, but he's ...
The Who: Bang A Gong The Who Get It On
Report by Barbara Charone, NME, August 1973
THE MAN across the road didn't really understand why Keith Moon was standing in the pouring rain, beating on a Paiste gong outside the Who's ...
Interview by Tony Stewart, NME, October 1973
IT HAPPENED TO THE BEATLES, BUT IT WON'T AFFECT THE WHO. AND ROGER DALTREY NOW PREPARES TO DO THREE YEARS HARD LABOUR ...
Review and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, October 1973
TOWNSHEND'S Quadrophenia is a rather daunting proposition. Another Who double-album rock opera? About a kid called Jimmy? With a massive booklet of grainy monochrome tableaux ...
John Entwistle: Quadrophenia Another Great Who Opera?
Interview by uncredited writer, Beat Instrumental, November 1973
JOHN ENTWISTLE is a happy man! He enjoys a reputation as one of the world's best electric bass players, he's had a decade of success ...
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, November 1973
IN THE SECOND LEG OF THE TOWNSHEND-MURRAY TALKABOUT, PETE TELLS ALL...AND MORE. ...
The Who’s Mod Generation: Quadrophenia Through The Years
Overview by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, December 1973
If I could somehow live my teenage years over again, I think I would choose to live them as a Mod. What it must have ...
Review by Lenny Kaye, Rolling Stone, December 1973
Quadrophenia is the Who at their most symmetrical, their most cinematic, ultimately their most maddening. Captained by Pete Townshend, they have put together a beautifully ...
The Who: Exorcizing The Ghost of Mod
Review and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, Creem, January 1974
The Who: Quadrophenia ...
The Who Plunge Into Madness With Quadrophenia
Profile and Interview by John Swenson, Circus Raves, March 1974
GIVEN THE SITUATION that the average life span of a successful rock group is less than two years, the Who have set some kind of ...
The Who: Quadrophenia Reconsidered
Comment by Dave Marsh, Creem, March 1974
PHILADELPHIA ON Tuesday night is nobody's good time. Nonetheless, because the Who were not coming to New York on their fall tour, it was worth ...
Pete Townshend: March Of The Mod
Profile by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, May 1974
IT MAY WELL have been pure chance that produced the most visually exciting guitarist in rock. If Peter Townshend hadn't been born with a big ...
Can You Believe It? Chatting with Pete Townshend
Interview by John Tobler, ZigZag, June 1974
I bet you'd given up all hope of seeing the second part of this little epic, eh? How many of you even remember the first ...
Report and Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, June 1974
"LAST NIGHT," says Roger Daltrey, screwing his face up to obtain maximum effect, "we was f...'orrible. Really f...'orrible. It just shows that we ARE human, ...
The Who: Odds & Sods/Them: Backtrackin'
Review by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, November 1974
1974 HAS CERTAINLY been a good year for reissues, even if UA's Jan & Dean set didn't quite make it to the starting gate. Four ...
Review by Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, April 1975
Pre-release skepticism was clearly in order. The handing over of Townshend’s likeable but jumbled spiritual parable to filmdom’s master of the Technicolor sick joke seemed ...
The Who: The Celluloid Passion Of Roger Daltrey
Interview by Barbara Charone, Crawdaddy!, April 1975
LONDON – "They just don't make records like they used to," the mini-cab driver complained, battling the mid-day London traffic, edging the car towards Battersea. ...
Nick Kent – A Limey in LA #2: The Day I Shook Bob Dylan's Hand And Other Weird Tales
Report by Nick Kent, NME, April 1975
ALSO INCLUDES: The Dog That Ate The Dog That Ate Los Angeles ...
Roger Daltrey: What the Who's Been Doing
Interview by Barbara Charone, Rolling Stone, September 1975
LONDON – "I don't think Tommy held the band back – it's just that nobody wanted to listen to what [else] we were doing. Who's ...
Review by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, October 1975
THE WHO'S sovereign elixir is only available about once every two years, and is held most effective when composed of simple, basic ingredients. The 1969 ...
The Who: The Who By Numbers (Polydor) (37.50)
Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, October 1975
THE WHO are alright kids. They are back with a vengeance. The first opening attack on 'Slip Kid' quells doubts and settles apprehensions about the ...
Report by Barbara Charone, Sounds, October 1975
I WAS in a pretty blasphemous mood when I left for Stafford. But the thought of seeing the Who cheered me up. It had been ...
The Who: Bingley Hall, Stafford
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, October 1975
LIKE MOUNTAINEERS tottering on the brink of some huge ravine, the Who crashed into their first tour in over two years at the weekend and, ...
Essay by Penny Valentine, Street Life, November 1975
THAT summer: Tolliday and I roaming Soho’s warm night streets, swapping stories, putting each other in roles, lingering outside sawdust-floored Italian food-stores, sniffing in the ...
The Who, Toots & The Maytals: Summit Hockey Arena, Houston TX
Live Review by John Swenson, Sounds, November 1975
THE WHO began the American portion of their world tour in characteristic fashion – opening up Houston's Summit Hockey arena to rock 'n' roll. ...
The Who Tour: Random Flashes Of Brilliance
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Phonograph Record, December 1975
The Who: The Summit, Houston Tx. ...
Keith Moon: Like A Rat Up A Pipe
Profile by Gary Pig Gold, Pig Paper, The, December 1975
IF PETE Townshend is the mind of The Who, Entwistle the soul, and Roger the heart, then drummer Keith Moon is most definitely the gut. ...
Report by Dave Schulps, Circus, December 1975
"The report of my death is greatly exaggerated"– Mark Twain ...
Review by Simon Frith, Let It Rock, December 1975
THE SUNDAY TIMES' recent 'Rock Report' has been useful just for gathering together in one place all the clichés of the supercilious school of rock ...
Report and Interview by Michael Gross, Rock Magazine, 1976
THE POOL AREA of The Doral Hotel on Miami Beach was virtually empty. A few children splashed in the water, a small group of double-knit ...
Who’s Still The Best Live Rock'n'Roll Band In The World, Then?
Report by Andy Childs, ZigZag, February 1976
IT'S BEEN said often enough over the last month or so, but the fact still remains: The Who are still the best live rock 'n' ...
John Entwistle: Is This The Right Man For Mayor of Acton?
Interview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, February 1976
'Momma's got a squeeze box she wears on her chestAnd when Daddy comes home he never gets no rest Because she's playing all nightAnd the ...
Who, Gibbons Face the Hog Butcher Vibe
Report by Mick Farren, NME, March 1976
The Who/Steve Gibbons Band: Pavillion de Paris ...
The Who: Madison Square Garden, New York NY
Live Review by John Swenson, Sounds, 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 ...
Report by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, June 1976
"Will the people on the lighting tower please get-off because it's very dangerous and we are afraid that tower might go" – Nicky Horne, Capital ...
The Who: The Real Thing – Accept No Substitute
Report by Barbara Charone, Sounds, June 1976
"CHARLTON ain't gonna be any better than this," Mick Jagger had flatly declared to a dubious John Entwistle during the first night the Rolling Stones ...
Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, October 1976
IT'S NO accident that the most successful Punk Rock bands include at least one Who song in their act. Eddie And The Hot Rods do ...
Book Excerpt by David Dalton, Lenny Kaye, Rock 100, 1977
THE TEEN DREAM LIES AT THE CORE OF rock & roll and no group has explored, projected and interpreted the turbulent substances of teenage craniums ...
Retrospective by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, January 1978
The Department of Cryptic Headlines presents a retrospective view of THE WHO's Quadrophenia, noting that Mr Pete Townshend's Mod vision is as valid now as ...
Interview by Dave Schulps, Trouser Press, April 1978
KAREN TOWNSHEND answers the door wearing a puzzled look. "Hello. I'm here to see Pete. We've got an interview scheduled for ten o'clock." The puzzled ...
In Which Pete Townshend Gets Personal
Interview by Dave Schulps, Trouser Press, May 1978
"SHADDUP," YELLS Pete Townshend. Then he slaps his leg and Towser the dog comes running over. "Do you want to go out?" Pete asks, getting ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, August 1978
Say Goodbye To Angry Songs For Kids Say Hello To Angry Songs For Grown-Ups ...
The Who: Sweat, Bollocks & Guts
Interview by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, September 1978
IN ORDER that you wouldn’t get lost in the huge Universal Studios complex, accidentally find yourself on a glam-tram and off on a tourist-view of ...
Review by Ira Robbins, Crawdaddy!, October 1978
Ever since Pete Townshend immortalized teenage rebellion with the phrase "Hope I die before I get old," he has been haunted by the obvious ramifications ...
Interview by Barbara Charone, Creem, November 1978
Deep in the back of my mind is an unrealized soundEvery feeling I get from the streets says it soon could be found When I ...
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, January 1979
ARE THE WHO haunted by ghosts? Is the spectral figure of Tommy now joined by the cackling spirit of Keith Moon? ...
Profile by Kris DiLorenzo, Grooves, February 1979
SOME PEOPLE call the Rolling Stones the world's greatest rock & roll band, but there are probably just as many fans who think that title ...
Interview by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, April 1979
Kids Are Allright Director Jeff Stein Tells TP All About It ...
The Who: The Mod Revival, Yes…
Live Review by Mark Williams, Melody Maker, May 1979
The Who: Rainbow, London ...
Report by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, May 1979
After last week's Rainbow triumph the Who continued their return in France at the weekend with an open-air concert and the premieres of their two ...
Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, May 1979
What next for the Who?Roger loved it, but Pete's not so sure...After their French concert last week, CHRIS WELCH eavesdropped on the Who's doubts and ...
The Who: The Kids Are Alright (Polydor)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, June 1979
"The whole thing about rock and roll dynamism, in many ways, is the fact that if it does slow down, if it does start to ...
What's What With The Who Movie
Film/DVD Review by John Mendelsohn, Los Angeles Times, July 1979
THE KIDS Are Alright movie – opening Thursday at the Cinerama Dome – begins with the Who performing their ode to teen inarticulateness, 'My Generation', ...
The Who / The Stranglers/ AC/DC /Nils Lofgren: Wembley Stadium, London
Live Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, August 1979
NOT ONE OF the great Wembley encounters, we decided, as the car crept another couple of feet in the late Saturday evening jam. ...
Who, Stranglers: Laser Laser On The Wall Who Are Complacent After All
Live Review by Paul Morley, NME, August 1979
THE MIDDLE OF the evening and it's getting quite dim. The Who are playing a new song; at least, I take it to be a ...
The Ace Face’s Forgotten Story: Pete Meaden
Interview by Steve Turner, NME, November 1979
I’m the face babyIs that clear?I’m the faceIf you want it.All the others are third-class tickets by me babyIs that clear?– Pete Meaden for the ...
A Face in The Who: Kenny Jones
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, December 1979
ZERO HOUR approaches. Soon the Who will be back on stage, and the whole world will be watching. Kenny Jones doesn't mind admitting that he's ...
Pete Townshend: Conversations With Pete
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, April 1980
On an up with britain's longest serving honest man of rock ...
The Who: Face Dances (Warner Bros.)
Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, June 1981
ONCE UPON A TIME, the Who was a guiding force in the life of many people (myself included). The wisdom of Chairman Pete Townshend, as ...
Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, January 1982
From a fan's point of view, there is nothing worse than a compilation album put together by either a group, whose nearness to the material ...
Pete Townshend Stops Hurting People; Stops Hurting Himself
Interview by Chris Salewicz, Creem, November 1982
"PERSONALLY I LIKE the idea of embodying evil in the devil – it doesn't really matter whether you externalize the evil or recognize it as ...
Book Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, January 1984
Before I Get Old: The Story Of The Who by Dave Marsh Yardbirds by John Platt, Chris Dreja and Jim McCarty ...
Who The Hell Does Pete Townshend Think He Is?
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, July 1989
Doesn't time fly? Seems like only yesterday he was a powerful advertisement for reckless hedonism and passionate irresponsibility. Today he's a bookish publishing consultant, earnest ...
Report and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, November 1989
That deaf, dumb and blind kid is back, along with all the unsavoury characters – Cousin Kevin, Uncle Ernie, the Acid Queen – who made ...
Review and Interview by Chris Salewicz, MOJO, July 1994
WOOSTOCK BEGAN ON A GOLF course. Three years before they were to be responsible for Governor John Rockefeller declaring the Woodstock Festival area "a state ...
Interview by Johnny Black, MOJO, September 1994
MY GENERATIONA LOT OF THE SOLOS I PLAYED WERE MUCH FASTER AND MORE interesting than the ones that finally went on the record. ...
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Rolling Stone (Germany), November 1995
ROCK MUSIC – we’d never have believed it if they’d told us back then – has grown up. What was once dicks and fists has ...
The Who: Betrayed by Rock'n'Roll
Comment by Dave Marsh, MOJO, July 1996
Fan and friend Dave Marsh celebrates Pete Townshend's most puzzling work, Quadrophenia, written in an era full of possibilities which,"ended badly". Could it be that ...
Interview by Ira Robbins, Cleveland Live, November 1996
SHORTLY BEFORE THE reunited Who began its month-plus Quadrophenia tour of North America in Portland, Oregon on October 13th, guitarist, singer and composer Pete Townshend ...
Interview by Ira Robbins, San Francisco Chronicle, 1997
"Roger [Daltrey] speaks a lot about the magic that happens when the three of us get together to play," says Pete Townshend, who spent two ...
Retrospective by David Stubbs, Uncut, June 1997
Tommy and Quodrophenia were louder and longer, but the psychedelic pop irony of this 1967 album remains Pete Townshend's masterpiece ...
A Bargain... The Best You Ever Had: Thoughts On Compiling The Who's 30 Years of Maximum R&B
Essay by Chris Charlesworth, Crawdaddy!, 1998
THREE YEARS AGO I met Paul Williams for the first time at the Frankfurt Book Fair. This resulted in Omnibus Press, of which I am ...
Book Excerpt by Tony Fletcher, Omnibus Books, 1998
An extract from Dear Boy: The Life Of Keith Moon, by Tony Fletcher, first published by Omnibus Press in 1998. (616pp, currently available in the ...
Guide by Fred Dellar, MOJO, January 1998
Every month we navigate the high-water marks, rapids and stagnant ponds of a prolific artist’s output, so you don’t have to. We continue with... ...
Monterey International Pop Festival
Review by Max Bell, Uncut, March 1998
Four-CD box set of the 1967 Summer Of Love festival ...
Pete Townshend: on The Who and Lifehouse
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Los Angeles Times, 1999
The Who on the road in America again, just 18 years after their farewell tour? "It’s a long story and not a particularly nice one," ...
Interview by Tom Cox, Guardian, The, December 1999
I'M LAUGHING, BUT Pete Townshend is frightening me. "Yes!!!!!" he shouts, and bangs hard on the table in his Richmond studio, for the second time ...
The Who: Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Chris Roberts, Uncut, March 2000
WELL, YOU can't accuse them of being pompous, of inflating their legend. The Who shuffle distractedly onstage as if they're playing a mate's house party, ...
Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, April 2001
Soundtracks from three Who-derived Seventies films — something old, something borrowed and something horrible ...
Retrospective by Gavin Martin, Uncut, May 2001
THE WHO BY NUMBERS IS PETE TOWNSHEND'S MASTERPIECE. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, October 2001
AUGUST, 1969: Upstate New York. All along America's Eastern seaboard upright citizens of this great nation are starting to slowly stir from deep and uneventful ...
How The Who’s My Generation LP Finally Came Out On CD in the UK
Retrospective by Chris Charlesworth, Record Collector, 2002
STRANGE THOUGH it might seem, it took an ad on eBay offering the master tapes for sale to anyone with half a million dollars to ...
The Who: The Colosseum, Watford
Live Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, April 2002
'Tonight's show has The Who attacking and understanding their legacy more pointedly than at any time in the past 20 years' ...
Obituary by Chris Charlesworth, Bass Guitar, July 2002
IT IS A CLICHÉ THAT CELEBRITIES tend to be shorter in real life than they appear on stage. John Entwistle, who often wore brightly-coloured Cuban-heeled ...
Thunderfingers' Last Stand: Remembering John Entwistle
Memoir by Keith Altham, Rock's Backpages, July 2002
THE NEWS OF John Entwistle's death reached me by email from LA via Pete Townshend's PA Nicola Joss in Las Vegas on Thursday night. ...
Review by Jon Savage, MOJO, September 2002
The first legitimate CD release of The Who's epoch-making debut album, plus 18 tracks cut with their producer, Shel Talmy, in 1965 and early 1966. ...
The Who: The Who Sell Out from The Complete Guide to the Music of the Who
Book Excerpt by Chris Charlesworth, Omnibus Press, 2004
Original UK issue: Track 612 002 (mono) & Track 613 002 (stereo), released December 1967; UK CD: Polydor 835 727-24, remixed Polydor 527 759-2, 1995. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, April 2004
TRICKY CUSTOMER, Lifehouse. Pete Townshend spent the best part of a year from autumn, 1970, trying to explain it... ...
Retrospective by Chris Charlesworth, Q, Spring 2004
"GET HIM OUT of here." "What?" "Get him out. He’s making things worse." "But Pete, he’s... he’s Kit, their manager." ...
The Who, Track By Track, Album By Album
Discography by Steven Rosen, unpublished, 2007
Originally commissioned by Classic Rock Direct Limited for a Who DVD. (Note: All quotations in story come from Steven Rosen's personal archive). ...
From Dylan to The Who: Film-maker Murray Lerner
Profile and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, November 2007
Murray Lerner on his new The Other Side Of The Mirror – Bob Dylan Live At The Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965 DVD and the just ...
Retrospective and Interview by Kris Needs, Record Collector, September 2009
40 years on, Woodstock's epochal celebration of music, peace and unleashed hedonism is being marked with an unprecedented deluge of audio and visual releases. KRIS ...
Comment by Barney Hoskyns, Independent on Sunday, February 2010
ARGUABLY THE MOST famous line The Who's Pete Townshend ever wrote was "Hope I die before I get old" on 1965's angry young anthem 'My ...
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