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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moon, who could also be wonderfully benign and sweet-tempered, a sort of rock-'n'-roll Shakespearean fool, commanded perhaps the greatest affection from the audience. He was also dosing himself for disaster, and he began to undermine the group. During an American tour in 1975, he failed to show...

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

The Who came back together, started working on Who Are You. Moon returned from self-imposed exile in Los Angeles, tried to pull himself together. Some days he would play with his old brilliance. Other days he couldn't play at all. "We knew what was coming," Daltrey says, "but...

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

Daltrey lives a safe two-hour drive from the others, in a 17th century mansion surrounded by 300 acres of lush farm land in Sussex. He has an American wife, Heather, two daughters, Willow and Rosie, and a son by a previous marriage. He exercises to keep in trim, but...

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

Inside the coliseum, Cincinnati Fire Marshall Clifford Drury told Who manager Bill Curbishley that the show must go on as scheduled. Drury reasoned that the crowd, which did not know what had happened at the west gate, would not sit still for a cancellation. So The Who played its standard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Stampede to Tragedy | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Fewer than 20% of the Cincinnati tickets were for reserved seats. The rest were for so-called festival seating, a sort of first-come-best-seated system that many of the country's major rock venues have long since given up as unworkable. Says Tony Tavares, director of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Stampede to Tragedy | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

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