Today in Whostory – December 22nd
1963 – The Detours play at St. Mary’s Ballroom in Putney opening for the Rolling Stones. Pete gets to meet the Stones through an introduction by his friend Glyn Johns, then the lead singer for the group The Presidents. Brian Jones and Mick Jagger are quite friendly to a star-struck Pete. Standing backstage, he sees Keith Richards swinging his arm in a circle as a warm-up before the curtain is raised on the Stones’ performance.
1964 – The Who play the Marquee Club in London.
1966 – The Who appear on Top of the Pops
1967 – The Who were scheduled to appear as part of the “Christmas On Earth Continued” festival
1973 – The Who play the Sundown Theatre in Edmonton, London
1975 – The Who play the Hammersmith Odeon in Hammersmith, London
1985 – Pete and his wife Karen preside over the Snowball Review in aid of the Chiswick Family rescue
1999 – The Who play the Shepherd’s Bush Empire in Shepherd’s Bush, London
