The Who

Genres:	Music & Radio • Musicals & The Arts • Pop / Rock • Soundtracks • Spoken Word
Descriptive "tags":	classic rock • rock • british • 60s • hard rock
Decades Active:	1960s • 1970s • 1980s • 1990s • 2000s
Artist Compilations:	Larry Warner (The Whoopee Man)
Links online:	BBC Music • Discography • Discography • IMDb • MusicMoz • MySpace • Official Homepage • Wikipedia

Biography

Formed in Shepherd’s Bush, London, England in 1964, the Who evolved out of local youth club band the Detours. Pete Townshend (Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend, 19 May 1945, Chiswick, London, England; guitar/vocals), Roger Daltrey (b. Roger Harry Daltrey, 1 March 1944, Hammersmith, London, England; vocals) and John Entwistle (b. John Alec Entwistle, 9 October 1944, Chiswick, London, England, d. 27 June 2002, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; bass/vocals) founded this attraction, and having jettisoned Colin Dawson (vocals) and Doug Sandom (drums), recruited Keith Moon (b. Keith John Moon, 23 August 1946, Willesden, London, England, d. 7 September 1978, London, England; drums) as a replacement for the latter.

The restructured quartet was adopted by manager/publicist Peter Meadon, who changed their name to the High Numbers, dressed them in stylish clothes and determinedly courted a mod audience. Their sole single, ‘I’m The Face’,...

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