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Fwd: Re: Streaming QuickTime of Pete at Secret Policeman's



Repost from O&S.  Here's the text of an article on Pete's napping in
the middle of the show: 


--- Alan Glendinning <abg@foxvalley.net> wrote:
> Reply-to: oddsandsods@thewho.net
> Date:  Wed, 16 Jan 2002 20:57:05 -0800
> From: Alan Glendinning <abg@foxvalley.net>
> To: Members of <oddsandsods@thewho.net>
> Subject:  Re: Streaming QuickTime of Pete at Secret Policeman's
> 
> Okay, I went back and found the original text in Rolling Stone
> (Random Notes, 14-May-81).  I scanned it in and left it formatted the
> way Omnipage spit it out:
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 		Pete Townshend falling
> 	asleep onstage? It's hard to
> 	envision, but apparently
> 	that's what happened on the first
> 	night of The Secret -Policeman's
> 	Ball, a series of concerts-soon to
> 	be a movie and a pair of LPs-held
> 	two years ago in London to benefit
> 	Amnesty International. Accord-
> 	ing to Martin Lewis, producer of
> 	the music and comedy extravagan-
> 	za, Townshend was initially hesi-
> 	tant about performing without any
> 	backup. "He was terribly nervous,"
> 	says Lewis. "He'd never performed
> 	solo solo before." Finally, lured by
> 	Monty Python mainstay John
> 	Cleese, Townshend assented.
> 
> 		He kicked off the show with
> 	searing renditions of "Pinball
> 	Wizard" and "Drowned," then re-
> 	treated to his dressing room-to
> 	await the finale, a duet with classi-
> 	cal guitarist John Williams on
> 	"Won't Get Fooled Again." The
> 	show ran very late, though, and
> 	Townshend asked for a glass of
> 	brandy to tide. him over. "So I got
> 	an enormous bottle and sent it up,"
> 	says Lewis. "Since we got him for
> 	nothing, I felt obligated to get him
> 	a bottle. I figured he'd take it home
> 	with him. But when we went to get
> 	him, there wasn't much brandy left,
> 	and Pete was looking very mellow.
> 	He said,'Oh, is it time now? Fine,
> 	okay, how much rehearsing do we
> 	have? Five minutes? That'll do.'"
> 
> 		Once onstage, Townshend
> 	meandered through the song be-
> 	fore nodding out over his acoustic
> 	Gibson. "Only three people no-
> 	ticed," asserts Lewis. "Pete no-
> 	ticed, because he woke up at some
> 	point, and John Williams and I
> 	noticed it. I thought, 'Christ, how
> 	will they get out of this?"' Town-
> 	shend's narcolepsy doesn't appear
> 	in the film or on the record. Why?
> 	Simple, says Lewis. "Pete would
> 	have bits of my
> 	anatomy cut out." 


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