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    2 days ago · The founding members of the Who, Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend and John Entwistle, grew up in Acton, London and went to Acton County Grammar School. Townshend's father, Cliff , played saxophone and his mother, Betty, had sung in the entertainment division of the Royal Air Force during World War II, and both supported their son's interest in ...

  2. 4 days ago · After regrouping for a ninth album Face Dances in 1981, the band’s first of two with former Faces drummer Kenney Jones left the surviving members, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle, and Roger ...

  3. 5 days ago · In 1966, The Who released A Quick One, which contained John Entwistle’s proto-metal classic ‘Boris the Spider’ and the following year, they dipped into psychedelia with The Who Sell Out. Davies was impressed but felt Townshend showed his full potential for the first time in the 1969 rock opera, Tommy .

  4. 4 days ago · Not a busy lead-bass player like the Who's John Entwistle or Yes's Chris Squire, Petersson explored a sonic space somewhere between their note-y twang and the raw energy of punk and hard-rock deviators like the Stranglers’ JJ Burnel and Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister, yielding a pronounced punch that inspired later 12-string devotees such as dUg ...

  5. 5 days ago · 2002 - The funeral of The Who's bass player John Entwistle took place at a church in The Cotswolds. More than 200 mourners filed into the 12th century church of St Edward. 2002 - Blues singer Rosco Gordon dies at 74.

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  7. 3 days ago · Townshend and school friend John Entwistle formed a short-lived trad jazz group, the Confederates, featuring Townshend on banjo and Entwistle on horns. The Confederates played gigs at the Congo Club, a youth club run by the Acton Congregational Church, and covered Acker Bilk , Kenny Ball , and Lonnie Donegan . [19]

  8. 3 days ago · Woodstock '99. Woodstock 1999 (also called Woodstock '99) was a music festival held from July 22 to July 25, 1999, in Rome, New York, United States. [2] [3] After Woodstock '94, it was the second large-scale music festival that attempted to emulate the original 1969 Woodstock festival. Like the previous festivals, it was held in upstate New ...