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On This Day – Townshend Loses It
On this day in 1973 The Who were playing Quadrophenia at Newcastle City Hall, UK. That is they were until Townshend lost it completely attacking their long standing principal sound engineer, Bob Pridden. His crime? He started a prerecorded tape 15 seconds late. Townshend grabbed Pridden by the neck dragged him to wards the mixing […]
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On This Day – Daltrey Sacked, Burrell Hired.
On this day in 1965 Roger Daltrey thumped Keith Moon (an ambition for many who knew the ‘lovable’ Moon) and he was sacked from the Who! The band was ending an european tour playing 2 final concerts in Denmark. There was a band wide arguement and Daltrey popped Moon. Instead of thinking that Daltrey was […]
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Tagged as: boz burrell, classic rock music, free, keith moon, On This Day, real rock and blues, rock and blues, rock music, roger daltrey, the who
On This day – Keith Moon
On this day in 1978 Keith Moon died. He overdosed on a drug called Heminevrin. Ironically this had been prescribed to help him over alcohol withdrawal symptoms. “Moon the Loon” joined The Who in 1964 after Doug Samden left and played on all their albums from “My Generation” (1865) to “Who Are You” released just […]
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Tagged as: classic rock music, deaths, keith moon, love rock music, On This Day, rock and blues, the who
On This Day – The Who Take US By Storm (not really)
1967 and The Who start their first US tour, supporting Herman’s Hermits! It is hard to believe that Herman’s Hermits once rivaled the Beatles as the UK’s biggest band. Child actor Peter Noone (ex Coronation Street) was the lead singer and they had several large (and remarkably dreadful) hit singles. In 1967 The Who had […]
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Tagged as: classic rock music, herman's hermits, love rock music, On This Day, the who
On This day – Little Susie is Being Suggestive!
On this day in 1957 The Everley Brothers reached the top of the charts in the USA with “Wake Up Little Susie”. That inspite of it being banned by some radio stations because of the suggestive lyrics. I have always said that it is a dirty little song, a threat to the morals of our […]
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Tagged as: censorhip, classic rock music, elvis presley, frank zappa, love rock music, On This Day, rock and blues, rock music, the who
On this Day – Live Fast, Love Hard, Die Young
On this day in 1955 Faron Young reached number one in the US C & W (it was called American Country at the time I think) charts with his Live fast, Love Hard, Die Young. (Covered unsuccessfully, by Eddie Cochran) To my ears there is something very odd and unsettling about this track. It might […]
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Tagged as: eddie Cochran, faron young, live fast love hard die young, patti smith, rock and blues, the who
On This Day – The High Numbers Turned Down By EMI!
On this day in 1964 The High Numbers auditioned for EMI the UK record company, and were turned down. One of the reasons they were turned down was that the record company wanted them to write more of their own material. Like many of the beat groups of the time the various members had been […]
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