1963 – The Detours play the Oldfield Hotel in Greenford
1964 – The Who play the Trade Union Hall in Watford
1965 – Radio Luxembourg’s Ready Steady Radio! broadcasts The Who recorded at The Marquee Club on the 13th
1968 – The Who play the Rhode Island Auditorium in Providence, Rhode Island
1970 – The soundtrack to Woodstock, featuring The Who’s performance of “See Me Feel Me”, hits the charts in Britain. It peaks at #35.
1970 – Chris Welch lists “Summertime Blues” in his “New Pop Singles” article in Melody Maker saying “It should be a hit”. Melody Maker also runs an ad for “The Yorkshire Jazz and Blues Festival” listing The Who as headliners on August 15 (which they did not play), and an ad for the Isle of Wight Festival (August 29) which they did play!
1972 – NBC-TV in the U.S. airs the special Good Vibrations From London with the June 3 Beach Boys concert that had been compèred by Keith.
You can watch some footage from the event on YouTube here
1973 – Ken Russell’s script for the movie version of Tommy is completed
1989 – The Who play Rich Stadium in Orchard Park, New York
1995 – Ringo Starr’s All-Starr Band, featuring John Entwistle on bass, play the Garden State Arts Center in Holmdel, New Jersey
1996 – The Who play the 3rd night in a row at Madison Square Gardens in New York.
1996 – John, Simon, Geoff Whitehorn, “Rabbit” and John Karan joined Godfrey Townshend and played at Le Bat Bar
1999 – Roger attends an event for PETA in Los Angeles
2006 – The Who play the Galaxie Amnéville in Metz, France
2008 – Roger joins Billy Joel for his “Last Play at Shea” concert at Shea Stadium. Roger sings “My Generation” and Billy smashes a guitar
2012 – Pete Townshend and Roger hold a press conference in London to announce they will be touring that autumn with a presentation of Quadrophenia. “We’ve been anxious to work together before we drop dead” says Pete
2017 – The Who play the MGM National Harbor’s Theater
