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The Who: TommyReview 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 Townshend’s ...
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, but ...
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 ...
ARTICLES IN LIBRARY
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 obviously ...
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 among ...
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 For ...
The Who in San Francisco
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 of ...
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 which ...
Born to Sing The Blues
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, they ...
Keith Moon
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 to ...
The Who: Live At Leeds
Review by Richard Williams, The Times, 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: 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 play ...
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 Bloomfield? ...
Pete Townshend
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 have ...
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 in ...
The Who: Who's Next
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 supposed, ...
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 album, ...
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 are ...
The Who Puts the Bomp
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 things ...
The Who: (Keith) Moon Probe
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 had ...
The Who: Triumph And A Threat
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 ...
The Who: Four-Way Pete
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 stapled ...
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 with ...
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 been ...
The Who: Quadrophenia
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 performed ...
The Who: Exorcizing The Ghost of Mod
Review and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, Creem, January 1974
The Who: Quadrophenia ...
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 nose ...
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 part ...
Pete Townshend in New York
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, though. ...
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 Beach ...
Tommy on the Silver Screen
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 artistically ...
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. The ...
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 Next ...
The Who: The Who By Numbers
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 potion, ...
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, in ...
The Who
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 peasant-smells ...
The Who: The Who By Numbers
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 criticism. ...
The Who Tour: Random Flashes Of Brilliance
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Phonograph Record, December 1975
The Who: The Summit, Houston Tx. ...
The Who on the Beach
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 polyester ...
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' roll ...
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 chest
And when Daddy comes home he never gets no rest
Because she's playing all night
And the music's ...
Who, Gibbons Face the Hog Butcher Vibe
Report by Mick Farren, NME, March 1976
The Who/Steve Gibbons Band: Pavillion de Paris ...
The Who: Who-ray!
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 Radio. ...
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 played ...
The Who
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 with ...
The Who: Quadrophenia
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 it ...
Pete Townshend
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 look ...
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 up ...
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 plastic ...
The Who: Who Are You
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 of ...
Who: Who's Who?
Interview by Barbara Charone, Creem, November 1978
Deep in the back of my mind is an unrealized sound
Every feeling I get from the streets says it soon could be found
When I hear ...
The Who Sell In
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? ...
The Who
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 rightfully ...
The Who Movie
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 ...
The Who: Vive Le 'Oo
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 movies. ...
Townshend: Still No Touring Roger loved it, but Pete's not so sure...After their French concert last week, CHRIS WELCH eavesdropped on the Who's doubts and ...
Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, May 1979
What next for the Who?
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 review ...
What's What With The Who Movie
Film or 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', on ...
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 ...
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 new ...
The Ace Face’s Forgotten Story: Pete Meaden
Interview by Steve Turner, NME, November 1979
I’m the face baby
Is that clear?
I’m the face
If you want it.
All the others are third-class tickets by me baby
Is that clear?
— Pete Meaden for the High ...
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 nervous. ...
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 communicated ...
The Who: Hooligans
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 can ...
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 within. ...
The Who, Yardbirds books
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 anti-drug ...
The Who: Rock On, Tommy!
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 his ...
Woodstock
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 of ...
John Entwistle A LOT OF THE SOLOS I PLAYED WERE MUCH FASTER AND MORE interesting than the ones that finally went on the record. ...
Interview by Johnny Black, Mojo, September 1994
MY GENERATION
The Who: Earls Court, London
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 brains ...
Pete Townshend
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 rang ...
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 tumultuous ...
The Who: The Who Sell Out
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 editor, ...
Moon Over America
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 UK ...
How To Buy The Who
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 ...
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," says ...
Pete Townshend: Peter Rabbits
Interview by Tom Cox, The Guardian, 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 in ...
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, which, ...
The Who
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 sleep. ...
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 spare ...
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. ...
The Who: My Generation
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.
US: ...
The Who: Lifehouse
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... ...
Kit Lambert: A Profile
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 ...
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 ...
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 released ...
Woodstock: Back To The Garden
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 NEEDS ...
Long Live Rock: The Who
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 Generation'. ...
see also Roger Daltrey
see also John Entwistle
see also Keith Moon
see also Pete Townshend
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