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10 cover versions absolutely hated by the people who originally wrote them
By Dave Everley published
Good or bad, it didn’t matter – these cover versions attracted the ire of their original authors

In 1973 The Who appeared on Top Of The Pops: their performance ended with carnage and a lifetime ban
By Fraser Lewry published
Pete Townshend was furious when The Who played 5:15 on Top Of The Pops in 1973, and he showed it with a display of aggression that saw them banned from the BBC for life

The most played live songs by 25 iconic rock bands
By Dave Everley published
Which songs have Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Queen and others played live the most? Spoiler: contains surprises

"My hair caught fire and my hearing was never the same again": Relive the explosive moment Keith Moon blew up his drums on live TV
By Fraser Lewry published
It's one of the most iconic clips in rock: The Who, The Smothers Brothers, and 10 times the permitted amount of gunpowder

"So there I was, sitting in the driver's seat of a Lincoln Continental, underwater": The night The Who’s Keith Moon drove his car into a swimming pool
By Johnny Black published
Keith Moon celebrated his 21st birthday by taking one of his cars for a swim – or did he? Eyewitnesses explain what they saw – or think they saw

"Its sheer capacity for repelling the viewer is almost immeasurable": How Alice Cooper, Ringo Starr, Keith Moon and Mae West found themselves in one of the worst movies ever made
By Fraser Lewry published
What happened when three members of celebrity drinking club The Hollywood Vampires ended up in a film that "affronts everything that human civilisation stands for"

"Oh god, there’s a weird old guy naked right in front of me": Watch Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong share his memory of meeting a nude Roger Daltrey
By Liz Scarlett published
In a 2005 interview, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong recalled meeting one "member" of The Who

"If it had failed, we would have slid into ignominy": How Tommy was the last throw of the dice for The Who
By Niall Doherty published
The Who's Pete Townshend once pondered what would’ve happened if his magnum opus, Tommy, had failed
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