21 Mar 2009

The Who author Andy Neill

From RNZ Music, 1:00 pm on 21 March 2009
A Fortnight of Furore: The Who and the Small Faces Down Under by Andrew Neill

It's been 41 years since The Who last played to New Zealand - that tour in 1968 was a double-bill that saw them paired with The Small Faces, scaring the bejesus out of the antipodes with their auto-destructive brand of 'maximum R'n'B'. 

Ex-pat Who fanatic and writer Andrew Neill has documented that 'Fortnight of Furore' in his book of the same name, and here recounts tales of a tour that shook up these sleepy isles...

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