Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey at the Kennedy Center

Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey were among several honorees last December at The Kennedy Center in Washington along with Morgan Freeman, George Jones, Barbra Streisand and Twyla Tharp. Former President George W. Bush did a nice job speaking for a few moments about The Who. The video is above courtesy of YouTube.

Pete Townshend Getting Divorced

The story here isn't that Pete Townshend is getting divorced from Karen Astley, because the two have been separated for 15 years or so. No, what stood out for me is that Astley has hired Fiona Shackleton as her lawyer. Shackelton (fitting name) represented Heather Mills in her bitter split from Paul McCartney. You may recall that Mill$ made out quite well for her$elf.

Keith Moon Honored With Plaque

The above video is of the recent ceremony in which the late drummer of The Who, Keith Moon, gets honored by the Heritage Foundation with a blue plaque at the site of the original Marquee Club in London.

The Who Maximum R&B Live

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The Who News

I love YouTube and even more so when I find recordings like the one above: a very rare demo of the song "Who Are You" which someone made this video to accompany the song! Great work!

The Museum at Bethel Woods will feature some Pete Townshend memorabilia at an upcoming exhibit which celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock Arts & Music Festival. More information is here.

Here is an interview with Rush's Geddy Lee in which he talks of how influential Pete Townshend was on his songwriting.

Big Who fans, Pearl Jam, explain their album, Ten, here.

The band, Mushroom, says here they are going to revive Pete Townshend's Lifehouse, which was a Townshend project that transmogrified itself into the album, Who's Next.

Meanwhile, The Who's rock opera Quadrophenia is being brought to the stage.

The band is currently on a tour of Australia and New Zealand. Click me to read an interview conducted with Pete Townshend by The Australian.

St. Patrick's Day and The Who

I'm a day late - and probably a dollar short - of posting this but I have some Irish-related songs from two of the principle members of The Who. Above is a YouTube video playing the song "Tipperary" from Pete Townshend's Scoop album. Scoop was an album of demos that Pete did while having some fun in the studio.

This is a link to Roger Daltrey joining up with The Chieftains and performing "Raglan Road" for The Chieftains 1992 album, An Irish Evening (Live). I have a handful of albums by The Chieftains, and they are probably my favorite of Irish songsmiths. "Raglan Road" is a poem by Patrick Kavanagh which has also gone under the name of "Dark Haired Miriam Ran Away."

Happy Birthday Roger Daltrey!

Since I am always on top of things, I'm going to send out early birthday wishes to The Who's Roger Daltrey. The frontman from Shepherd's Bush turns 65 on Sunday.

"Real Good Looking Boy" is a song that The Who recorded back about five years ago - with Greg Lake of Emerson, Lake and Palmer fame on bass - and this above video has some very cool highlights of Roger and the boys.