“With Pete Townshend at the wheel, the six-liter Mercedes was traveling up the Ml north of London at speeds approaching 130 miles per hour and never, it seemed to me, below 110. I watched from the rear seat as we overtook cars driving on the motorway as if they were parked.
Townshend was talking animatedly to John Wolff, the bald road manager for The Who, known familiarly as “Wiggy.” “Not a hair on me anywhere, mate,” he would explain. Pete, Wiggy, and I were headed north to Leeds to join the rest of The Who for a performance that night.
Wiggy and I had met a couple of weeks earlier after Glyn Johns (who was producing Who’s Next, their first studio album since Tommy, had called to say that the album was almost finished and, although there were several companies developing ideas, The Who still did not have an album cover. So I met with Pete at his home in Eel Pie and he told me the story of Lifehouse (from which Who’s Next was derived) and one of the tunes did mention getting away from it all. Glyn suggested maybe something could be done with that, you know.
So the Land Rover was borrowed and Wiggy and I and occasionally Sy, another member of The Who’s entourage (short for “Cyrano,” and he looked it; a long nose bulbed at the end and hair that grew to his shoulders), would go driving around the English countryside. They would tell stories of being on the road with The Who, stories of madness and destruction and a lot of booze.” (From ETHAN RUSSELL:AN AMERICAN STORY )
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