In June 1964, during a performance at the Railway, Townshend accidentally broke the head of his guitar on the low ceiling of the stage. Angered by the audience’s laughter, he smashed the instrument on the stage, then picked up another guitar and continued the show. The following week, the audience…
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Dawson left after frequently arguing with Daltrey and was briefly replaced by Gabby Connolly, before Daltrey moved to lead vocals. With Entwistle’s encouragement, Townshend became the sole guitarist. Through Townshend’s mother, the group obtained a management contract with local promoter Robert Druce, who started booking the band as a support…
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The foundations for what would become the Velvet Underground were laid in late 1964. Singer-songwriter and guitarist Lou Reed had performed with a few short-lived garage bands and had worked as a songwriter for Pickwick Records (Reed described his tenure there as being “a poor man’s Carole King “). Reed…
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By late 1964, the Who were becoming popular in London’s Marquee Club , and a rave review of their live act appeared in Melody Maker . Lambert and Stamp attracted the attention of the American producer Shel Talmy , who had produced the Kinks . Townshend had written a song,…
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In September 1963, Metcalfe and Noble left to form their own band.
In September 1963, Waters and Mason moved into a flat at 39 Stanhope Gardens, Highgate in London, owned by Mike Leonard, a part-time tutor at the nearby Hornsey College of Art and the Regent Street Polytechnic.
Banks and Gabriel arrived at the school in September 1963
Roger Waters and Nick Mason met in September 1962 while studying architecture at the London Polytechnic at Regent Street , London.
Richard Wright , a fellow architecture student, joined later that year, and the group became a sextet, Sigma 6.
Wilson was fired in mid-1962 and replaced by Doug Sandom , though he was older than the rest of the band, married, and a more proficient musician, having been playing semi-professionally for two years.