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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NBC has not come up with any runaway hits so far this season, but Fred Silverman's troubled network cannot be counted out. Its winter replacement shows include United States, by the creator of M*A*S*H, and a new dramatic series, Skag, starring Karl Maiden. This summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sweeps Stakes | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Last week, playing a concert date in Cincinnati during the first week of an 18-day blitz of the East and Midwest, The Who found itself performing after a crowd stampede that killed eleven people. The tragedy took place outside Riverfront Coliseum as thousands of kids holding unreserved seats charged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock's Outer Limits | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Not only does The Who's old material sound vital now, the new songs are as powerful as anything the punks or the new wave set down. There are other supergroups, like the Eagles or Fleetwood Mac, who turn out a kind of well-tooled pop that beats The Who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock's Outer Limits | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

If, as Daltrey says, The Who is like a family, then Kenny Jones is still perhaps the orphaned cousin from overseas who has come to start a new life. "The others were a bit arrogant at the outset," Jones reports. "We'd start playing one of their songs, and they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock's Outer Limits | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

"The greatest bloody triumph of my schooldays was when Roger asked me if I could play guitar," Townshend recalls. "If he had ever said, 'Come out in the playground and I'll fight you,' I would have been down in one punch. Music was the only way I could ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock's Outer Limits | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

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