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Sport. Music. Humour. Current events. Rejoiner.

[JohnnyBoyRejoin @JohnnyBoyRejoin]

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[Mick Sulli @SulliMick]

One of the best scenes ever 😂

[STEVE DIGGLE @steveediggle]

Fifty years ago !

[Anne @Anniepop2027]

Lucy Powell should resign.

It is not legitimate for the Deputy Leader to have organised a coup against the elected PM

It makes a mockery of the office and her election by members who she has frozen out on this critical decision.

Agree ?

@BBCNews @LBC @SkyNews

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

Four working-class London boys form a band nobody wants. A publicist forces them into matching mod outfits. One is dressed as a human bullseye. The gimmick becomes rock history.

Within four years they smash guitars for a living. Within fourteen years, one of them is already dead, far too young.

In 1964, four teenagers from West London form a band called The Detours.

Roger Daltrey works as a sheet metal worker in Shepherds Bush. John Entwistle is a tax office clerk from Acton, born October 9, 1944. Pete Townshend is an art student from Ealing. Keith Moon, born August 23, 1946, is a Beach Boys fanatic from Wembley who joins as their new drummer.

They rename themselves The Who. Nobody notices.

A hustler named Pete Meaden becomes their publicist. He rebrands the entire group as The High Numbers and forces them into the exact look of London's mod subculture: parkas, tailored suits, and cropped haircuts copied straight from the Carnaby Street crowd.

Here is what most people miss: the image works too well. Meaden dresses Keith Moon in a bullseye target shirt and Pete Townshend in a Union Jack jacket. Both looks become permanent symbols of 1960s youth culture, reproduced on posters and t-shirts for the next six decades.

Their first single, "I'm the Face," flops completely.

New managers Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp take over. They revert the name back to The Who and get Pete Townshend writing original songs.

At a gig at the Railway Hotel in Harrow, Townshend accidentally smashes his guitar into the venue's low ceiling. The crowd goes wild.

He starts doing it on purpose. It becomes the band's signature.

In January 1965, "I Can't Explain" reaches the UK top ten. In May, "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere" does the same.

Then, in October 1965, "My Generation" hits number two. The song's stuttering vocal and defiant lyrics turn four working-class kids into the voice of British youth.

"Substitute" follows in March 1966. "I'm a Boy" hits number two that August.

By 1967, The Who are smashing guitars and destroying drum kits at nearly every show. At the Monterey Pop Festival that June, their explosive set introduces them to American audiences for the first time.

Keith Moon is at the center of it all. He drives cars into hotel swimming pools. He blows up toilets with cherry bombs for fun, once causing 24,000 dollars in damage to a single hotel room after a tour stop in Michigan.

He gets banned for life from entire hotel chains, including every Holiday Inn, Sheraton, and Hilton on the map. Fans call him "Moon the Loon." His bandmates call him a genius.

In 1969, everything changes again. The Who release Tommy, a double album telling the story of a "deaf, dumb and blind" boy. It becomes rock's first true rock opera.

That August, they perform at Woodstock. Pete Townshend famously knocks activist Abbie Hoffman off the stage mid-set with his guitar.

In 1973, the band releases Quadrophenia, a concept album about a young mod named Jimmy navigating identity, gang violence, and heartbreak in 1960s Brighton.

The album becomes a 1979 feature film, reigniting an entire mod revival a full decade later.

But by then, tragedy has already struck.

On September 7, 1978, just two weeks after The Who release their album Who Are You, Keith Moon is found dead in his London flat.

He had taken 32 tablets of a prescription drug meant to treat his alcoholism. Only six had dissolved in his system.

He is 32 years old.

John Entwistle gets the news mid-interview. He breaks into tears on the spot. Roger Daltrey later calls it "the end of an era."

Kenney Jones joins as the new drummer that November. The band carries on, though Townshend later admits it felt "completely irrational."

Here is what most people miss: The Who's tragedies were not finished.

On June 27, 2002, one night before the band is set to launch a major North American tour, John Entwistle is found dead in his Las Vegas hotel room. He is 57 years old. The cause is a cocaine-induced heart attack.

Two of the four original working-class kids from West London are now gone.

In 1990, The Who are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, cementing the legacy Moon and Entwistle never got to fully see.

Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend, now the band's only surviving founders, keep playing. Daltrey launches annual Teenage Cancer Trust concerts at London's Royal Albert Hall starting in 2000, raising enormous sums for young cancer patients.

Sixty years after four mismatched teenagers first picked up instruments in West London, "My Generation" still plays on classic rock radio every single day.

The bullseye shirt. The smashed guitars. The song that dared anyone to stop them before they got old.

Two of them did grow old. Two of them never got the chance.

[JohnnyBoyRejoin @JohnnyBoyRejoin]

@Miatsf Vision and clarity. Have a day off.

[JohnnyBoyRejoin @JohnnyBoyRejoin]

@Classicbritcom @Funny_Stuff_UK So many to choose from but the Major, the moose head on the counter, and Manuel out of sight, is pure genius.

[City on a Card @ManCityCards]

Dave Watson on a Panini World Cup ‘78 Sticker.
#England

[JohnnyBoyRejoin @JohnnyBoyRejoin]

@paul1964Jam Only one band split up in 1982. 😭

[I❤️Nostalgia '𝕏' @Ilovenostalgia]

Computer class in the 80s…

[Manchester City @ManCity]

"We're going to do the most important thing in football which is to win." �"We're going to do the most important thing in football which is to win." �"We're going to do the most important thing in football which is to win." �"We're going to do the most important thing in football which is to win." �"We're going to do the most important thing in football which is to win." 💪

[JohnnyBoyRejoin @JohnnyBoyRejoin]

@OldRoberts953 Bring her back or raise her from the dead?
She's hopeless too, by the way.

[JohnnyBoyRejoin @JohnnyBoyRejoin]

@wizzo3333 Looking forward to seeing what he does. He feels like he's a Blue and has just been waiting to come back. Best of luck to him. 🩵

[Manchester City @ManCity]

The journey continues 🩵

[Manchester City @ManCity]

Back where he belongs 🩵

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to have knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.”

― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World

[City HQ @City_hq]

Rico Lewis hosted a Charity event yesterday in Manchester for homelessness. 👏🏻

“In Manchester every day I see too many people asking for money or food, things everybody should have.”

“You can’t change it overnight but you can change it over the years...” 🙌🏻

📰 @SamLee

[Classic Rock In Pics @crockpics]

Thin Lizzy frontman Phil Lynott at home in his West Hampstead apartment back in 1976. Music photographer Ian Dickson captured this frame right as the band was exploding globally with tracks like "The Boys Are Back in Town" and "Jailbreak." Even off the stage and casual with an acoustic guitar, the man just exuded effortless rock star energy.

[chasb @bchaz4]

Good morning people how about we all mount a sustained attack on Chris Mason in the same way he attacked Kier Starmer.
We make his tenure at the BBC impossible.
At least we can justify our claims of bias and incompetence.
#SackChrisMason
RT if you agree

[Mr Pål Christiansen @TheNorskaPaul]

@MetroMayorSteve Has he thanked George Osborne for the £4 billion the then Chancellor pumped into the city which made Burnham so popular ?

Oh, then there’s this damning prosecution. . .👇😬

[Andy @AndyRejoinEU]

@MetroMayorSteve Andy Burnham promised to serve a full term as GM Mayor but then reneged on his commitment to the 420K people who voted for him.

GM taxpayers have to fund a £4.7m election for his ego trip.

This is the person he really is.