Word: montreal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...show doesn't really start until after Quadrophenia. "Won't Get Fooled Again" is dedicated to the Montreal Police. It's a complete version with synthesizer pre-recorded onto a tape. This is the recognizable, post-Tommy Who that everyone obviously had been waiting for. It's not safe to underestimate this song's power as performed. With all the arrogance, frustration and simple sneering punk hostility The Who bring to the stage, coupled with the substantial amounts of same written into the song...well, there was an obvious emotional peak. "Pinball Wizard" initiated hysteria--as much because...
...expansion Flames, a young team that is displaying play-off potential in the Western Division of the N.H.L. The Buffalo Sabres and Philadelphia Flyers, also expansion teams, are doing well. Ironically, the team that has benefited most from expansion is the one that needed help the least-the Montreal Canadiens. Under the direction of General Manager Sam Pollock, the Canadiens have exploited expansion to replenish their bench and keep their dynasty in power. Unlike Washington Redskins Coach George Allen, who trades football draft choices for veterans, Pollock trades veterans for future draft selections...
...years ago, for instance, he engineered a dazzling deal that brought Guy LaFleur, a top minor-league prospect, to Montreal. Having already procured the California Seals' first-round draft pick in an earlier trade, Pollock helped ensure that the Seals would finish last and therefore have the first choice of rookies. He accomplished this by selling a reliable veteran center, Ralph Backstrom, to the Los Angeles Kings, who were struggling with the Seals to stay out of last place. Backstrom's arrival kept the Kings out of the cellar. Pollock is such a shrewd trader that the Canadiens...
Because of this year's increased demand, a shortage of firewood now exists. Caswell said that T&B may have to go as far north as Montreal to find supplies of wood for the winter...
Died. Jennie Tourel, 63, diminutive, Montreal-born soprano star of the Paris Opéra-Comique who fled to the U.S. during World War II, dazzled Metropolitan Opera audiences with her unusual range (low G to high C) and linguistic fluency (nine languages) and during the 1950s emerged as one of the leading vocal recitalists in the U.S.; of lung cancer; in Manhattan...