
Claire Tole-Moir
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Provenance:
From the collection of Richard Barnes, who was Pete Townshend's sixties art school flatmate. Barnes ran the Railway Hotel in 1964 where The Who had a residency. It was at this historic venue that Townshend first smashed his guitar and where managers Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp first met the band. Barnes was the Who's first official biographer with his best-selling book 'The Who: Maximum R&B', first released in 1983.
A crowd of some 50,000 attended the day's events at the Charlton football ground, with support acts Lou Reed, Humble Pie, Bad Company, Lindisfarne, Maggie Bell and Montrose. The Who took to the stage that evening and, whilst it wasn't perhaps one of their best concerts musically - Pete Townshend admitted to being drunk - the crowd were well pleased with the characteristic energy of the band's performance.
Please contact the department for images of Keith Moon performing in 1974 while wearing the only other shirt produced with this design.