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...what of this album is seasoned rock mastery; the how has to do mostly with the way Drummer Keith Moon ignites Peter Townshend's wry melodies...
...NUMBERS (MCA; $6.98). Following his disappointing rock opera Quadrophenia, The Who's chief composer, Peter Townshend, has his dropout muse back in residence. The British rock quartet, unsettled by internal squabbles and individual efforts at solo LPs and films, pulled together for some properly granitic music making this time. Though there is no formal story line, the album is nonetheless slyly conceptual. Townshend's nine songs, plus John Entwistle's Success Story, evoke a rock star's fight against time. Nicky Hopkins' vigorous keyboards, added to the band's own mix of acoustic...
Such solo flights have threatened the security of Roger's group. The Who members have never been mates offstage-"We don't really get on," Daltrey admits. "We just make music together." But recently Pete Townshend, the group's leader and author of most of its music, has intimated that Daltrey has been slighting his collaborators. Despite this, Daltrey, 31, claims: "There is no real problem. Keith Moon, our drummer, is a bit jealous, but that's because he always wanted to be a movie star." The Who blitzkrieg of North America will open on schedule...
...grateful Edgar Bronfman, who has had a series of recent personal misfortunes. Divorced by Ann, apparently because of his often open involvement with young models and society girls, he had gone through a bitter and highly publicized annulment fight with his second wife, Britain's Lady Carolyn Townshend. Last week he was to have married another young Englishwoman, Georgiana Webb, 25, whose parents own a country restaurant (Ye Olde Nosebag) east of London. During the kidnap turmoil, the wedding, of course, was postponed-although a truckload of flowers arrived incongruously at Yorktown nevertheless. At week's end there...
...went through five editions in his lifetime at a price equivalent to $65 a copy-many thousands of copies a year are still sold today-and won him a comfortable sinecure as commissioner of customs in Edinburgh. He was able to tell his aristocratic former patron, Statesman Charles Peter Townshend (whose stepson he had tutored), that he no longer needed the heavy subsidy that Townshend had been paying him in order to get by. More important than the money were the plaudits of his fellow intellectuals. It was already possible to say, as the British writer and archivist James Bonar...