Who Music Group

It's not exactly that Petra Haden isn't taking this thing seriously. It's just that it was really a private project taken on as an exercise, and she had no intention of playing it for anyone except friends, primarily Mike Watt, the Los Angeles musician who challenged her to try it in the first place.

The Who, singing of its generation for 43 years, closed England's soggy Glastonbury Festival on Sunday, which drew 178,000 over three days.

Is there a big enough movie to tell the tale of Keith Moon? Rock singer Roger Daltrey hoped to produce a feature film about Moon, his late friend and fellow member of the Who, but after years of searching can't find a screenplay that matches the robust and reckless life of the iconic drummer. "The trick is you have to find a script that is really worth shooting," Daltrey said this week while in town promoting the new documentary "Amazing Journey: The Story of the Who."

It's been almost 25 years since the Who blasted their way through a major concert tour, so they should be ready. This fall, they'll give it another go, band members Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey say. Opening date will be Sept. 12 in Philadelphia. The legendary band will then wind its way through the U.S. and Canada before jumping next year to South America, the Far East, Australia and Europe. They're scheduled for a stop at the Hollywood Bowl Nov. 5.

The two surviving members of the Who are producing a documentary about the British rock band's turbulent history, an ongoing 40-year saga of death, drugs and timeless music. Guitarist/songwriter Pete Townshend and singer Roger Daltrey have joined forces on the feature-length project with director Murray Lerner, an Oscar-winning documentary director who first filmed the band during the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival.

The Who may be returning, again. In a posting on his website, Pete Townshend says that he and singer Roger Daltrey are planning to get together for the first Who studio album in more than two decades. "Roger and I [will] meet in mid-December to play what we have written," Townshend, the guitarist and primary songwriter of the group, writes. "If we move ahead from there, we may have a CD ready to release in the spring. My working title for the project -- 'Who2' -- is only partly tongue-in-cheek."

Saying it's better to mourn a fellow musician on stage than in private, the surviving members of the Who announced Friday that they will move forward with a U.S. tour despite the death this week of bassist John Entwistle. The first show will be at the Hollywood Bowl on Monday night. "We are going on," guitarist Pete Townshend said Friday via a short statement posted on his Web site. "First show Hollywood Bowl. Pray for us John, wherever you are."

A film festival created to celebrate the Who, then hastily transformed into a memorial for the veteran British rock group's bassist John Entwistle, turned into an emotional wake Sunday for the influential musician, who died last week in Las Vegas at 57 on the eve of the band's new U.S. tour.

A man died at a Who concert in Irvine on Sunday night, according to police. Police said the man collapsed near a ticket counter outside the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater around 8 p.m. and died soon after. The man apparently died of a heart attack or some other natural cause unrelated to anything going on at the concert, police said. The coroner was called to the scene to investigate. The man's identity was withheld pending notification of his family. Evan Halper

In the bad old days of rock hedonism, a hotel maid would have approached any room occupied by a member of the Who only with armed backup. But when a housekeeper's knock last weekend took the venerable British band's bassist, John Entwistle, away from a phone interview briefly, he politely turned her away, explaining that there was nothing in his West Hollywood hotel room in need of "Hoovering"--what we Yanks call vacuuming.

Is there a big enough movie to tell the tale of Keith Moon? Rock singer Roger Daltrey hoped to produce a feature film about Moon, his late friend and fellow member of the Who, but after years of searching can't find a screenplay that matches the robust and reckless life of the iconic drummer. "The trick is you have to find a script that is really worth shooting," Daltrey said this week while in town promoting the new documentary "Amazing Journey: The Story of the Who."

The Who, singing of its generation for 43 years, closed England's soggy Glastonbury Festival on Sunday, which drew 178,000 over three days.

It's been almost 25 years since the Who blasted their way through a major concert tour, so they should be ready. This fall, they'll give it another go, band members Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey say. Opening date will be Sept. 12 in Philadelphia. The legendary band will then wind its way through the U.S. and Canada before jumping next year to South America, the Far East, Australia and Europe. They're scheduled for a stop at the Hollywood Bowl Nov. 5.

The two surviving members of the Who are producing a documentary about the British rock band's turbulent history, an ongoing 40-year saga of death, drugs and timeless music. Guitarist/songwriter Pete Townshend and singer Roger Daltrey have joined forces on the feature-length project with director Murray Lerner, an Oscar-winning documentary director who first filmed the band during the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival.

It's not exactly that Petra Haden isn't taking this thing seriously. It's just that it was really a private project taken on as an exercise, and she had no intention of playing it for anyone except friends, primarily Mike Watt, the Los Angeles musician who challenged her to try it in the first place.

The Who may be returning, again. In a posting on his website, Pete Townshend says that he and singer Roger Daltrey are planning to get together for the first Who studio album in more than two decades. "Roger and I [will] meet in mid-December to play what we have written," Townshend, the guitarist and primary songwriter of the group, writes. "If we move ahead from there, we may have a CD ready to release in the spring. My working title for the project -- 'Who2' -- is only partly tongue-in-cheek."

A man died at a Who concert in Irvine on Sunday night, according to police. Police said the man collapsed near a ticket counter outside the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater around 8 p.m. and died soon after. The man apparently died of a heart attack or some other natural cause unrelated to anything going on at the concert, police said. The coroner was called to the scene to investigate. The man's identity was withheld pending notification of his family. Evan Halper

A film festival created to celebrate the Who, then hastily transformed into a memorial for the veteran British rock group's bassist John Entwistle, turned into an emotional wake Sunday for the influential musician, who died last week in Las Vegas at 57 on the eve of the band's new U.S. tour.

Saying it's better to mourn a fellow musician on stage than in private, the surviving members of the Who announced Friday that they will move forward with a U.S. tour despite the death this week of bassist John Entwistle. The first show will be at the Hollywood Bowl on Monday night. "We are going on," guitarist Pete Townshend said Friday via a short statement posted on his Web site. "First show Hollywood Bowl. Pray for us John, wherever you are."

In the bad old days of rock hedonism, a hotel maid would have approached any room occupied by a member of the Who only with armed backup. But when a housekeeper's knock last weekend took the venerable British band's bassist, John Entwistle, away from a phone interview briefly, he politely turned her away, explaining that there was nothing in his West Hollywood hotel room in need of "Hoovering"--what we Yanks call vacuuming.