5/21/2023 0 Comments The who tour![]() ![]() The rest of the trip went without incident. In his book Before I Get Old: The Story of the Who, music critic Dave Marsh suggested that at this point the Who's singer Roger Daltrey and bassist John Entwistle seriously considered firing Moon, but decided that doing so would make his life worse. Doctors told Curbishley that if he had not intervened, Moon would have bled to death. He was discovered by manager Bill Curbishley, who took him to a hospital. The day after the aborted concert, Moon kicked the glass out of a framed painting in his hotel room and seriously injured his heel in the process. The tour had a disastrous start when Moon collapsed on stage just two songs into the Boston concert, causing the show to be postponed until 1 April. įollowing four European dates in early 1976, the Who began a series of shows in the United States on 9 March at the Boston Garden. Following the end of the North American leg, the band returned to the UK to play three Christmas concerts at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, due to high ticket demand for the earlier British dates. In North America, the band broke indoor concert attendance records for their 6 December concert at the Pontiac Metropolitan Stadium in Pontiac, Michigan, which attracted over 75,000 fans. ![]() The tour continued with a North American leg in November and December 1975, starting on 20 November at The Summit in Houston, Texas. A laser lighting display was introduced at the concerts at Leicester's Granby Halls shortly into the European leg, which would become a fixture of most of the tour's shows. Prior to this, the Who had not performed live since playing four shows at Madison Square Garden in New York City the previous June, having spent much of 1974 working on the film adaptation of their rock opera Tommy and its soundtrack. ![]() The first concert took place at Bingley Hall in Stafford, England on 3 October 1975, the same day The Who by Numbers album was released. The Who by Numbers Tour started with 20 European dates in October and November 1975. Moon did manage to complete the tour, however, the final shows became his last public concerts before dying of a drug overdose in 1978. His erratic behavior worried the other band members who believed he would not be able to finish the tour. Following their show in Miami, Moon was hospitalised for over a week. After performing at British football stadiums in May and June of 1976, the Who returned again to North America for the final of leg of concerts. The following day he seriously injured himself and nearly bled to death. The opening 1976 US show in Boston came to an end when drummer Keith Moon collapsed on stage after playing only two songs. The Who returned to America again in 1976 after playing several more shows in Europe, including three back-to-back Christmas shows at the Hammersmith Odeon, London. The tour began with a European leg, which introduced the band's first use of a laser lighting display, and was followed by a North American leg that set indoor concert attendance records. Despite being named after The Who by Numbers, few songs from the album were actually performed during the tour. It began on 3 October 1975, ended on 21 October 1976 and consisted of 79 concerts split between North America and Europe. The Who by Numbers Tour was a concert tour by the English rock band the Who, in support of their seventh album, The Who by Numbers (1975). ![]()
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