Fact #161957
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Short story:
The Who are in New York City, USA, discussing whether to perform the next day in the light of the fact that civil rights leader Martin Luther King has been assassinated earlier in the day.Full article:
John Morris (director, Fillmore East] : I was with Peter Townshend the night Martin Luther King was killed. We had a Who concert the next night at Fillmore East and we had to make the decision whether or not to go ahead with it. We went back and forth and back and forth. Being supposedly the politically aware one back then, I said, "Look. There are going to be thousands of people out on the street waiting to get in. We've got to play. " And Pete agreed. He was sitting in the office, talking about violence and how he hated it. How he didn't understand what was going on in the world. I mean, we literally talked for two or three hours. Even then, he was one of the most eloquent, intelligent human beings. He was a pleasure. We decided to go ahead and do it. A lot of people were against it. But we did it.
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