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Fact #97031

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Short story:

The Rolling Stones play at The Glenlyn Ballroom, Forest Hill, London, UK. Support act is The Detours, featuring future leader of The Who, Pete Townshend.

Full article:

Keith Richards (guitarist, Rolling Stones) : There's only so far you can go on that London scene. If you stay in that club circuit, eventually you get constipated. You go round and round so many time and then suddenly, you're not the hip band any more, someone else is.

Like the High Numbers (aka The Detours), they took over from us in a lot of clubs. The High Numbers turned out to become The Who.

Pete Townshend : The first time I swung my arm was after seeing Keith the night before