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"Have I got time to go to the bathroom?" 12 minutes with Roger Daltrey and John Entwistle will tell you everything you need to know about the tedium of touring
By Fraser Lewry published
In 1994, Roger Daltrey and John Entwistle were interviewed at Red Rocks in Colorado: it did not go according to plan

"He's out cold. I think he's gone and eaten something he shouldn't have eaten": What happened the night a Who fan was pulled from the crowd to fill in for Keith Moon
By Mark Blake published
In November 1973, 19-year-old Who fan Scott Halpin travelled to see the band play at San Francisco's Cow Palace. He ended up on stage

“A standard teen rebellion story - on paper, at least… But this is a musical concept, where pieces join to form a narrative in which things get weird”: Why The Who’s Quadrophenia is a prog epic
By Ben Myers published
Triumphant sixth album may be nostalgia for a previous decade, but it stands with the work of other bands who helped make 1973 the genre’s most vintage year

"Roger punched me once, and I’m sure I asked for it": How The Who overcame internal strife and a drummer behaving like 'a Saudi prince' to make their most poignant album
By Rob Hughes published
By 1973 The Who were bored and angry – and Pete Townshend knew he had one last chance to hold the band together and unify them in the eyes of their fans

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"
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