Who I Am: A Memoir (49 page)

The Detours, c. 1961. Roger let me join the band in ten seconds: ‘Can you play E? Can you play B? Can you play “Man of Mystery” by The Shadows? “Hava Nagila”? OK, see you there.’ (The Entwistle family)

A photo shoot for
Seventeen
magazine at Blaise’s Club in London, late 1964. (LAMedia Collection/Sunshine/Retna Ltd)

In my Mod parka, 1964. (Dewar/Trinifold Management Ltd)

The High Numbers, 1964. Pete Meaden persuaded us to record under that name. ‘Numbers’ was a Mod subgroup of lieutenants below the fashion-leading ‘Faces’. (Trinifold Management Ltd)

Karen Astley, Richard Barnes (Barney) and Liz Reid in Sid’s café, 1964. (Richard Barnes)

Dancing at The Scene Club, London, in 1964 with my friend Barney to the left. John is in the check jacket, Keith is on the left and Roger is in the foreground. Between me and Roger is Pete Meaden, still our manager in 1964. (T. Spencer/Colorific)

The Who in London on a magazine shoot with Tony Frank, 1965. That year we played in Holland and Scandinavia, causing a street riot in Denmark. (Tony Frank/Corbis)

Windmilling at The Pavilion in Bath, 10 October 1966. (Chris Morphet/Redferns/Getty Images)

Karen and me backstage after a show, November 1965.

The Who’s managers, Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert. They were from different backgrounds. Chris, from the East End of London, the son of a Thames waterman; Kit, the son of Constant Lambert, the musical director of the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden. (Jan Olofsson/Redferns/Getty Images)

The Who and Jimi Hendrix at the Saville Theatre, 29 January 1967. (J. Barry Peake/Rex Features)

With Mick Jagger, before our fourth appearance on
Top of the Pops
, 10 June 1965. (Beat Publications)

Auto-destruction at the Granby Halls in Leicester, spring 1967. (Chris Morphet/Redferns/Getty Images)