Fact #148529
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The Who open their Tommy tour with the first of three nights at The Grande Ballroom, Dearborn, Michigan, USA. On the same day, they are seen playing Pinball Wizard on tv's Ed Sullivan Show in New York City.Full article:
Pete Townshend : When we went over there, they were still in the middle of the Vietnam War. People were trying to blow their brains out on drugs or running to Canada to escape the draft, or coming back from Vietnam in bits and then sitting in the audience.
When you see things like that you realise that a radical response is not the solution. You have to get straight to the spiritual level.
(Source : 23 July 1994, New Musical Express]
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When you see things like that you realise that a radical response is not the solution. You have to get straight to the spiritual level.
(Source : 23 July 1994, New Musical Express]