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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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