They racked up so many hotel repair bills they returned from world tours broke. The Who tore up the rulebook, flicked two fingers at the establishment and told anyone trying to tame them to f-f-fade away. I AM a little f***er,” says Roger, hooting with laughter. “The little f***er didn’t bother me at all. “My fight with Keith Moon happened the next night in Aalborg.”Īnd the 5ft 7in giant of rock insists the reason he knocked out Pete Townshend was not because he had called him “a little f***er” during filming of Quadrophenia, but because they’d rowed about the crew. We had a riot in Aarhus with 5,000 p***ed-up farmers. “We had a fight alright,” says Roger, deadpan. Like my fight with Keith Moon in Aarhus,” he says. “A lot that’s recorded as Who history is wrong.
Now, chatting over a cuppa in a London hotel room which echoes with his booming and infectious laugh, Roger wants to set the record straight about some of The Who’s legendary fights. He was happy to be booted from the school he hated because it propelled him into the rock world. The title Thanks a Lot Mr Kibblewhite is a message to Roger’s former headteacher who expelled him over an incident involving an air gun. I wanted my book, my story, my title, my cover. “You can’t take a dollop of money in a contract because then you’re under pressure from publishers who say, ‘I want more of this, more of that’.
“I’ve been offered huge amounts for my life story but always turned it down,” he explains. It all makes for an incredible memoir, which he insisted on penning strictly on his terms.
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Off stage they were just as explosive, driving cars into swimming pools and hurling TV sets through windows. Onstage, they were dynamite – electrifying Woodstock and demolishing studio sets.
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