The Worley Gig

  Happy Birthday to The Who’s Roger Daltrey, born on March 1st, 1944! I had such a hard crush on him when I was 12.

On This Date in 1970: Who drummer Keith Moon accidentally ran over and killed his friend and bodyguard Neil Boland while trying to escape a gang of skinheads outside of a pub in Hatfield, U.K. Although Boland’s death was ruled an accident and no criminal charges were ever brought against him, those close to Keith [...]

Goodnight, Moon (Image Source) The late Who drummer, Keith Moon, would have celebrated his 64th Birthday today. RIP, Keith.

On This Date in 1967: The Who kicked off their first large scale U.S. tour at the Memorial Coliseum in Portland, Oregon as the opening act for Herman’s Hermits.

Image Source Pete Townshend, guitarist for The Who turns 65 today. Happy Birthday Pete and thanks for all the great music, which is still better than 100% of the pop music being produced today!

Pinball Wizard Picture Sleeve (German Release) On This Date in 1969: The Who recorded “Pinball Wizard” at Morgan Studios in London. Although not one of songwriter Pete Townshend’s favorites, it went on to become by far the most popular song from the rock opera, Tommy, reaching #4 in the UK charts and #13 on the [...]

On This Date in 1979: At a concert by The Who held at Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati, eleven people were trampled to death after a stampede to claim general admission seats. It was the saddest day in rock, ever. The tragedy was later memorialized in a very sobering episode of the TV show WKRP in Cincinnati.

John “The Ox” Entwistle, bassist for The Who and astounding musical genius, was born on this today, October 9th, in 1944. Of course, Entwistle is not the only massively-famous-but-dead rock star posthumously celebrating a birthday today. John Lennon would have celebrated a birthday on today’s date had he not been assassinated by the psychotic Mark [...]

On This Date in 1978: Keith Moon, drummer for The Who, died in London of an overdose of Hemenephirin, a drug he was taking to cure his alcoholism. He was 32. I still remember that day like it just happened; what a fucking tragedy. In an oddly related story, on this same date in 1985, [...]

Keith Moon, drummer for The Who, was born on this date in 1946. The video above is a very nice remembrance of Keith. It still breaks my heart to think he left us so soon.