Timeline

Timeline:

March 1, 1944: Roger Daltrey was born.

October 9, 1944: John Entwistle was born.

May 19, 1945: Pete Townshend was born.

August 23, 1946: Keith Moon was born.

October 29, 1965: The Who release “My Generation.”

October 28, 1967: The Who hit #9 with “I Can See For Miles”.

June 6, 1969: ‘Tommy’, the Who’s rock opera, hits #2 in the UK and #4 in the US.

June 7, 1969: The Who’s ‘Tommy’, a double-album rock opera, debuts on U.S. charts.

AUGUST 15-17, 1969: The year 1969 was the year of the rock festival. The largest was the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, held on the weekend of August 15-17 in the tiny town of Bethel, in upstate New York. An estimated crowd of 450,000 attended the event, which featured everyone from Jimi Hendrix and Joe Cocker, to Arlo Guthrie, the Jefferson Airplane, the Who, Janis Joplin, Sly and the Family Stone, Ravi Shankar and Country Joe McDonald.

November 28, 1970: The Who hits #12 in the US with “See Me, Feel Me” from ‘Tommy’.

November 12, 1973: The Who hits #2 with ‘Quadrophenia’.

December 29, 1973: The Who hit #76 in the US with “Love Reign O’er Me” from their rock opera ‘Quadrophenia’.

September 7, 1978: Keith Moon of the Who dies of an overdose of the drug prescribed to control his alcoholism.

October 4, 1978: The Who hit #14 with “Who Are You”.

May 9, 1981: The Who hit #18 with “You Better You Bet”

March 1, 1982: Pete Townshend, Stevie Nicks, Mick Jagger, Adam Ant, Pat Benatar, the Police and David Bowie kick off the “I Want My MTV” advertising campaign.

October 29, 1982: The Who hits #28 with “Athena”.

1990: The Who are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

June 27, 2002: John Entwistle of the Who dies of a heart attack in Las Vegas, NV.