Word: townshend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While other rock groups got lost in a technological doldrums which enervated their music, the Who--masterminded by Peter Townshend--stuck to the basic rock style of the sixties. Today, the financially strapped old-timers and the lobotomized New Wavers backtrack towards their roots, only to find the Who have been there all along, not stagnating but maturing, gaining depth, growing subtle...
Subtle hard rock? Most groups that sought it, like Yes and Genesis, vnthesized the rock right out of their music. Townshend's use of the synthesizer has always been comparatively restrained; if he never explored new frontiers, neither did he emasculate his group's music. This approach pays off on Who Are You, in songs like "The Music Must Change," a thriller in which the sound swells like an electronic tide rising and falling behind the rhythym section...
...altogether. The selections are drawn from letters, essays, critiques and talks on the BBC, plus a frail, touching, ninetyish farewell to all on British TV. The evening moves chronologically from Shaw's arrival in London and includes reminiscences of his early family life, his courtship of Charlotte Payne-Townshend, a millionairess, his epistolary romancing of Ellen Terry, the famed actress, and his meeting with Isadora Duncan at which, to his acute distress, she propositioned...
April 12. Townshend Act repealed, except for tax on tea, symbolic of Parliament's insistence on right to impose taxes...
...Massachusetts legislature asks other colonies to join in resisting Townshend duties. British threaten to dissolve any legislature that answers call. On May 16, 1769, Virginia House of Burgesses issues resolutions rejecting Parliament's right to tax colonies. Virginia Governor dissolves Burgesses, but members meet privately to declare boycott on dutiable goods...