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The Who make their first appearance on UK tv show Ready, Steady, Go!, in London, UK, along with The Hollies and DonovanFull article:
Pete Townshend : Ready, Steady, Go! was what was really going on. They actually used to send people out to clubs in the provinces and pick out potential trend-setters. Fights used to start in the studio. People would appear on screen with sawed-off shotguns. They were so careful in picking people that were the faces they often got too close to the mark. They got people who really cared about their image.
Roger Daltrey : We basically took the show over by blocking anybody who wanted to get in and had a ticket to see the show. We nicked their tickets and filled it with our audience - who were all mods. And the director had the great idea of putting Keith on a rostrum with wheels on it, and he was just kinda pushed through the crowd.
The ultimate thing for Moon was … his whole thing was that he should have been on the front of the stage and I should have been singing behind him. And that's why he hated me so much, 'cause I stood in front of him. And it was just a stroke of genius.
Cathy McGowan (presenter, Ready, Steady, Go!) : I said to that Keith Moon, 'Listen, you know, you don't talk to me like that. Nobody's interested in what you're doing anyway, quite honestly.'
Some boy came up to me saying, 'Don't you knock The Who…' There were certain people I just would not talk to on that programme and (producer) Elkan (Allan) used to go along with me.
It's silly now, when I come to think of it. I mean, you wouldn't dream of going down the BBC now and saying, 'I don't like one of The Who. If he's coming on, I'm not coming on.'
Roger Daltrey : There it was, all of a sudden on Ready, Steady, Go!. There were all these geeky people doing this weirdo dancing. All that step-dancing. And all these cool mods looking really like people from another planet! And this band, with this drummer who was playing like a complete raving lunatic - the way only Moon could, being pushed around by the crowd. You know, it was extraordinary. I think everything just took off from there.
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Roger Daltrey : We basically took the show over by blocking anybody who wanted to get in and had a ticket to see the show. We nicked their tickets and filled it with our audience - who were all mods. And the director had the great idea of putting Keith on a rostrum with wheels on it, and he was just kinda pushed through the crowd.
The ultimate thing for Moon was … his whole thing was that he should have been on the front of the stage and I should have been singing behind him. And that's why he hated me so much, 'cause I stood in front of him. And it was just a stroke of genius.
Cathy McGowan (presenter, Ready, Steady, Go!) : I said to that Keith Moon, 'Listen, you know, you don't talk to me like that. Nobody's interested in what you're doing anyway, quite honestly.'
Some boy came up to me saying, 'Don't you knock The Who…' There were certain people I just would not talk to on that programme and (producer) Elkan (Allan) used to go along with me.
It's silly now, when I come to think of it. I mean, you wouldn't dream of going down the BBC now and saying, 'I don't like one of The Who. If he's coming on, I'm not coming on.'
Roger Daltrey : There it was, all of a sudden on Ready, Steady, Go!. There were all these geeky people doing this weirdo dancing. All that step-dancing. And all these cool mods looking really like people from another planet! And this band, with this drummer who was playing like a complete raving lunatic - the way only Moon could, being pushed around by the crowd. You know, it was extraordinary. I think everything just took off from there.