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Roger Daltrey formed the Detours in 1962, with several member changes and role swaps abound, John Entwistle joined. Sometime later, on John's recommendation, Pete Townshend was added to the line up. In the meantime, The Detours had become a four-piece band; the drummer was changed with Keith Moon during early 1964... See full bio »

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2007-2012 CSI: NY (TV series)
Late Admissions (2012) (performer: "Baba O'Riley")
Clue: SI (2012) (performer: "Baba O'Riley")
The Lady in the Lake (2012) (performer: "Baba O'Riley")
Misconceptions (2012) (performer: "Baba O'Riley")
Unspoken (2012) (performer: "Baba O'Riley")
 
2005-2012 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV series)
Fallen Angels (2012) (performer: "Who Are You")
Pick and Roll (2012) (performer: "Who Are You")
Play Dead (2012) (performer: "Who Are You")
It Was a Very Good Year (2012) (performer: "Who Are You")
Wild Flowers (2012) (performer: "Who Are You")
 
2012 The Newsroom (TV series)
The Greater Fool (2012) (performer: "Baba O'Riley" - uncredited)
 
2012 Premium Rush (performer: "Baba O'Riley")
 
2012 London Calling (TV series documentary)
Fuck Art Let's Dance (2012) (performer: "Pinball Wizard" - uncredited)
 
2012 Rage (TV series)
Shaun Micallef Guest Programs Rage (2012) (performer: "Who Are You", "Pinball Wizard", "Barbara Ann")
 
2012 No me la puc treure del cap (TV series)
Televisió i publicitat (2012) (performer: "Who Are You", "Won't Get Fooled Again")
 
2007-2012 Top Gear (TV series)
Episode #18.6 (2012) (performer: "Won't Get Fooled Again" - uncredited)
Episode #10.7 (2007) (performer: "Who Are You" - uncredited)
 
2012 A Documentary of Life (TV series documentary)
This Is a Perpendicular Bisector (2012) ("Who Are You?")
 
2011 Marlon Brando tuli Suomeen (TV documentary) (performer: "I Can See for Miles")
 
2011 Formula 1: BBC Sport (TV series)
The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix: Qualifying (2011) (performer: "Pinball Wizard" - uncredited)
 
2011 Metal Evolution (TV series documentary)
Pre-Metal (2011) (performer: "My Generation", "Untitled Jamming Improv")
 
2011 CSI: Miami (TV series)
Killer Regrets (2011) (performer: "Won't Get Fooled Again" - uncredited)
Countermeasures (2011) (performer: "Won't Get Fooled Again")
 
2011 Goon (performer: "Eminence Front" - uncredited)
 
2011 Louie (TV series)
Country Drive (2011) (performer: "Who Are You")
 
2011 Ruisrock - 40 vuotta rockia ja rakkautta (TV documentary) (performer: "My Generation")
 
2010 Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III (TV movie) (performer: "Baba O'Riley")
 
2010 The Good Guys (TV series)
Vacation (2010) (performer: "Baba O'Riley" - uncredited)
 
2010 Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is (TV series)
Mark Franks v Paul Hayes: Showdown (2010) (performer: "The Seeker" - uncredited)
 
2010 Saturday Night Live (TV series)
Betty White/Jay-Z (2010) (performer: "Won't Get Fooled Again" - uncredited)
 
2008-2010 20 to 1 (TV series documentary)
All Time Favourite TV Themes (2010) (performer: "Who Are You")
Music with a Message (2008) (performer: "My Generation")
 
2010 Secret Diary of a Call Girl (TV series)
Episode #3.7 (2010) (performer: "You Really Got Me")
 
2010 Super Bowl XLIV (TV special) (performer: "Pinball Wizard" - uncredited, "Baba O'Riley" - uncredited, "Who Are You" - uncredited, "See Me, Feel Me / Listening to You" - uncredited, "Won't Get Fooled Again" - uncredited)
 
2009 Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series (TV series)
Ishizu Explains It All (2009) (performer: "Won't Get Fooled Again" - uncredited)
 
2009 Law Abiding Citizen (performer: "Eminence Front")
 
2009 Pirate Radio (performer: "My Generation" 1965, "I Can See for Miles" 1967, "Won't Get Fooled Again" 1971)
 
2008 Life on Mars (TV series)
Out Here in the Fields (2008) (performer: "Baba O'Riley" - uncredited)
 
2008 My Name Is Earl (TV series)
The Magic Hour (2008) (performer: "The Seeker" - uncredited)
 
2008 Religulous (documentary) (performer: "The Seeker")
 
2008 VH1 Rock Honors: The Who (TV movie) (performer: "Baba O'Riley" - uncredited, "Who Are You" - uncredited, "Behind Blue Eyes" - uncredited, "My Generation" - uncredited, "Tea & Theatre" - uncredited)
 
2008 Grand Theft Auto IV (Video Game) ("The Seeker")
 
2000-2008 The Simpsons (TV series)
Smoke on the Daughter (2008) (performer: "Won't Get Fooled Again" - uncredited)
A Tale of Two Springfields (2000) (performer: "The Seeker", "Won't Get Fooled Again")
 
2007 Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who (documentary) (performer: "Won't Get Fooled Again", "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere", "Barbara Ann", "Boris The Spider", "C.C. Rider", "Cobwebs and Strange", "Cola Jam", "Fiddle About", "Heinz Baked Beans", "Ooh Poo Pah Doo", "Road Runner", "See My Way", "Spoonful", "Summertime Blues", "The Ox", "Tommy's Holiday Camp", "Young Man Blues")
 
2007 American Masters (TV series documentary)
Les Paul: Chasing Sound (2007) ("My Generation")
 
2007 Reign Over Me (performer: "Love, Reign O'er Me")
 
2007 Two and a Half Men (TV series)
It Never Rains in Hooterville (2007) (performer: "Squeeze Box" - uncredited)
 
2007 One Tree Hill (TV series)
Pictures of You (2007) (performer: "Baba O'Riley" - uncredited)
 
2007 American Idol (TV series)
Auditions: Minneapolis (2007) (performer: "Won't Get Fooled Again" - uncredited, "Baba O'Reily" - uncredited)
 
2007 Rock Band (Video Game) (performer: "Won't Get Fooled Again")
 
2006 Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (performer: "Won't Get Fooled Again")
 
2006 What About Brian (TV series)
Pilot (2006) (performer: "Baba O'Reily")
 
2006 Air Guitar Nation (documentary) (performer: "Won't Get Fooled Again")
 
2006 Life on Mars (TV series)
Episode #1.1 (2006) (performer: "Baba O'Riley" - uncredited)
 
2005 Bewitched (performer: "Won't Get Fooled Again" 1971)
 
2005 Cold Case (TV series)
The Woods (2005) (performer: "Behind Blue Eyes")
 
2005 House M.D. (TV series)
Control (2005) (performer: "Baba O'Riley")
 
2004 Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Video Game) (performer: "Eminence Front")
 
2004 Listening to You: The Who at the Isle of Wight 1970 (TV documentary) (performer: "Heaven And Hell", "I Can't Explain", "Young Man Blues", "I Don't Even Know Myself", "Water", "Medley: Shakin' All Over / Spoonful / Twist And Shout", "Summertime Blues", "My Generation", "Magic Bus", "'Tommy' Overture", "It's A Boy", "Eyesight To The Blind The Hawker", "Christmas", "The Acid Queen", "Pinball Wizard", "Do You Think It's Alright", "Fiddle About", "Go To The Mirror", "Miracle Cure", "I'm Free", "We're Not Gonna Take It", "See Me Feel Me / Listening To You", "Tommy Can You Hear Me?")
 
2004 Entourage (TV series)
Pilot (2004) ("Eminence Front" - uncredited)
 
2004 Crossing Jordan (TV series)
Revealed (2004) (performer: "I Can See For Miles" - uncredited)
 
2004 Fear and Loathing on the Front Porch (short) ("I Can't Explain")
 
2004 The Girl Next Door (performer: "BABA O'RILEY")
 
2003 The School of Rock (performer: "Substitute")
 
2003 Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (performer: "Who Are You")
 
2003 Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (performer: "Magic Bus")
 
2003 Shanghai Knights (performer: "Magic Bus The Who Matter Remix", "My Generation")
 
2002 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (performer: "Won't Get Fooled Again")
 
2001 Kites Over Helsinki (performer: "Substitute")
 
2000 Freaks and Geeks (TV series)
Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers (2000) (performer: "I'm One" - uncredited, "Love, Reign O'er Me" - uncredited, "Squeeze Box" - uncredited, "Going Mobile" - uncredited, "Drowned" - uncredited)
 
2000 Almost Famous (performer: "Sparks")
 
2000 Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The Early Years (1955-1970) (TV documentary) (performer: "My Generation")
 
2000 The Filth and the Fury (documentary) (performer: "Pictures of Lily")
 
1999 Bringing Out the Dead (performer: "Bell Boy")
 
1999 American Beauty (performer: "The Seeker")
 
1999 Outside Providence (performer: "Won't Get Fooled Again")
 
1999 Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (performer: "My Generation" Live At The BBC)
 
1999 Summer of Sam (performer: "Baba O'Riley" 1971, "Won't Get Fooled Again" 1971, "Summertime Blues" 1960 - uncredited)
 
1999 The Limey (performer: "The Seeker")
 
1998 Rushmore (performer: "A Quick One While He's Away")
 
1998 From the Earth to the Moon (TV mini-series)
For Miles and Miles (1998) (performer: "Magic Bus")
Galileo Was Right (1998) (performer: "Magic Bus")
 
1994-1998 Tohuwabohu (TV series)
+0043- (1998) (performer: "Squeeze Box" - uncredited)
Seite 45 (1998) (performer: "Squeeze Box" - uncredited)
Tralala 2 bzw. 40 (1997) (performer: "Squeeze Box" - uncredited)
Unplugged (42) (1997) (performer: "Squeeze Box" - uncredited)
Seite 17 (1994) (performer: "Happy Jack" - uncredited)
 
1997 Fever Pitch (writer: "Baba O'Riley" / performer: "Baba O'Riley")
 
1997 Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival (documentary) (performer: "Young Man Blues", "Naked Eye")
 
1997 Prefontaine (performer: "Baba O'Riley")
 
1996 Jerry Maguire (performer: "The Magic Bus", "Gettin' in Tune")
 
1996 The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (documentary) (performer: "A Quick One While He's Away")
 
1996 Brit Awards 1996 (TV special) (performer: "Pinball Wizard")
 
1995 Apollo 13 (performer: "I CAN SEE FOR MILES")
 
1995 The History of Rock 'N' Roll, Vol. 6 (TV documentary) (performer: "Baba O'Riley")
 
1992-1993 Heartbeat (TV series)
An American in Aidensfield (1993) (performer: "I Can See For Miles" - uncredited)
Nowt But a Prank (1992) (performer: "I Can't Explain" - uncredited)
 
1990-1991 The Wonder Years (TV series)
The Wonder Years (1991) (performer: "My Generation" - uncredited)
Rock 'n Roll (1990) (performer: "My Generation" - uncredited)
 
1990 Goodfellas (performer: "Magic Bus")
 
1985-1986 Miami Vice (TV series)
Killshot (1986) (performer: "Eminence Front" - uncredited)
Out Where the Buses Don't Run (1985) (performer: "Baba O'Riley" - uncredited)
 
1985 Operation Julie (TV movie) (performer: "Who Are You", "Eminence Front")
 
1985 Live Aid (TV special documentary) ("My Generation", "Love Reign over me", "Won't get fooled again")
 
1983 Cool Cats: 25 Years of Rock 'n' Roll Style (video documentary) (performer: "My Generation" - uncredited, "Substitute" - uncredited, "Pictures of Lily" - uncredited, "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere" - uncredited, "Baba O'Riley" - uncredited)
 
1980 Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession (performer: "Who Are You")
 
1979 Quadrophenia (performer: "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere", "My Generation", "Love Reign Over Me" - uncredited)
 
1979 The Kids Are Alright (documentary) (performer: "My Generation", "Can't Explain", "Baba O'Riley", "Shout and Shimmy", "Young Man Blues", "Tommy Can You Hear Me", "Pinball Wizard", "We're Not Gonna Take It See Me, Feel Me", "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere", "Success Story", "Substitute", "I'm A Boy", " Love Is Like A Heatwave", "Pictures of Lily", "I Can See For Miles", "Magic Bus", "Happy Jack", "A Quick One While He's Away", "Cobwebs and Strange", "Sparks", "Barbara Ann", "Roadrunner", "My Generation Blues", "Who Are You", "Won't Get Fooled Again", "Long Live Rock")
 
1976 The London Weekend Show (TV series)
Punk Rock (1976) (performer: "My Generation")
 
1976 Top of the Pops (TV series)
Episode dated 4 November 1976 (1976) (performer: "Substitute")
 
1976 Teenage Beauties (performer: "Welcome" - uncredited)
 
1975 Tommy (performer: "Bernie's Holiday Camp", "Fiddle About", "Sparks", "Champagne", "Listening to You/See Me, Feel Me")
 
1975 Love in Maid (performer: "Baba O'Riley" - uncredited)
 
1971 Oceans (documentary) (performer: "See Me, Feel Me / Listening to You" - uncredited)
 
1970 Woodstock (documentary) (performer: "We're Not Gonna Take It" from "Tommy", "Summertime Blues")
 
1969 Pop Go the Sixties! (TV movie) (performer: "I Can See For Miles")
 
1969 Em Compasso de Espera ("Baba O'Riley")
 
1968 Omnibus (TV series documentary)
All My Loving (1968) (performer: "Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand", "I Can See For Miles", "My Generation")
 
1967 Hoepla (TV series documentary)
Bont, snel, flitsend (1967) (performer: "Under My Thumb" - uncredited)
 
1967 The Who in Finland (documentary short) (performer: "Substitute", "My Generation")
 
1965-1966 Shindig! (TV series)
Episode #2.33 (1966) (performer: "I Can't Explain", "My Generation")
Episode #2.30 (1965) (performer: "Daddy Rolling Stone")
Shindig Goes to London: Part 2 (1965) (performer: "Anyhow, Anyway, Anywhere", "Shout & Shimmy")
Episode #2.6 (1965) (performer: "I Can't Explain")
 
1966 Carousella (documentary short) (performer: "It's All Over Now")
 
Show ShowDirector (1 title)
2012 The Who Live in Texas '75 (video)
 
Show ShowThanks (1 title)
2006 Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny (personal thanks)
 
Show ShowSelf (46 titles)
2012 12-12-12 the Concert for Sandy Relief (TV movie)
Themselves - Performer
 
2012 The Who Live in Texas '75 (video)
Themselves.
 
2011 The Love We Make (TV documentary)
Themselves
 
2010 Super Bowl XLIV (TV special)
Themselves - Halftime Performers
 
2009 The Who: At Kilburn 1977 (video)
Themselves
 
2009 The Who at the London Coliseum 1969 (video)
Themselves
 
2008 VH1 Rock Honors: The Who (TV movie)
Themselves
 
2008 VH1 Rock Honors (TV movie)
Themselves
 
2007 Later with Jools Holland (TV series)
Themselves
Episode #30.5 (2007) … Themselves
 
2007 B InTune TV (TV series)
Guest stars
Episode #3.1 (2007) … Guest stars
 
2006 The Who: The Vegas Job (video documentary)
Themselves
 
2006 Late Show with David Letterman (TV series)
Themselves - Musical Guest
Episode #14.9 (2006) … Themselves - Musical Guest
 
2005 Live 8 (TV special documentary)
Themselves
 
2003 The Who: Live in Boston (video documentary)
Themselves
 
2000 VH-1 Where Are They Now? (TV series documentary)
Themselves
Woodstock (2000) … Themselves
 
2000 My Generation (documentary)
Themselves
 
1997 Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival (documentary)
Themselves
 
1996 The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (documentary)
Themselves
 
1995 The History of Rock 'N' Roll, Vol. 6 (TV documentary)
Themselves
 
1991 Two Rooms: A Tribute to Elton John & Bernie Taupin (TV documentary)
Themselves
 
1990 Aspel & Company (TV series)
Himself
Episode #7.7 (1990) … Himself
 
1989 Today (TV series)
Themselves
Episode dated 27 June 1989 (1989) … Themselves
 
1985 Live Aid (TV special documentary)
Themselves
 
1983 Ready Steady Go, Volume 1 (documentary)
Themselves
 
1981 Rockpalast (TV series)
Themselves
The Who (1981) … Themselves
 
1979 The Kids Are Alright (documentary)
Themselves
 
1978 Good Morning America (TV series)
Themselves
Episode dated 7 August 1978 (1978) … Themselves
 
1977 All You Need Is Love (TV series documentary)
Themselves
Diamonds as Big as the Ritz: The Musical (1977) … Themselves (uncredited)
 
1972 Sympathy for the Devil (TV series documentary)
Themselves
 
1970 Woodstock (documentary)
Themselves
 
1969 Pop Go the Sixties! (TV movie)
Themselves
 
1968-1969 How It Is (TV series)
Themselves
Episode dated 14 March 1969 (1969) … Themselves
How Late It Is (1969) … Themselves
Episode dated 11 October 1968 (1968) … Themselves
 
1968 Monterey Pop (documentary)
Themselves
 
1968 Time for Blackburn (TV series)
Themselves
Episode #1.39 (1968) … Themselves
Episode #1.36 (1968) … Themselves
 
1968 Omnibus (TV series documentary)
Themselves
All My Loving (1968) … Themselves (also archive footage)
 
1967 Twice a Fortnight (TV series)
Themselves
Episode #1.10 (1967) … Themselves
Episode #1.1 (1967) … Themselves
 
1967 Beat-Club (TV series)
Episode #1.19 (1967)
 
1967 The Who in Finland (documentary short)
Themselves
 
1965-1966 Ready, Steady, Go! (TV series)
Themselves
Ready Steady Goes (1966) … Themselves
Episode #4.8 (1966) … Themselves
Episode #4.2 (1966) … Themselves
Episode #3.51 (1966) … Themselves
Ready Steady Allez! (1966) … Themselves
 
1966 Where the Action Is (TV series)
Themselves
Episode #2.175 (1966) … Themselves
 
1965-1966 Shindig! (TV series)
Themselves - Rock Band / Themselves
Episode #2.34 (1966) … Themselves - Rock Band
Episode #2.30 (1965) … Themselves - Rock Band
Shindig Goes to London: Part 2 (1965) … Themselves
Episode #2.6 (1965) … Themselves - Rock Band
 
1965 Gadzooks! It's All Happening (TV series)
Themselves
Episode #2.2 (1965) … Themselves
Episode #1.7 (1965) … Themselves
 
1965 Thank Your Lucky Stars (TV series)
Themselves
Episode #7.35 (1965) … Themselves
 
1965 The Beat Room (TV series)
Themselves
Episode #1.28 (1965) … Themselves
Episode #1.27 (1965) … Themselves
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (18 titles)
2008-2010 20 to 1 (TV series documentary)
 
2008 Waiting for Hockney (documentary)
Themselves
 
2007 Switch reloaded (TV series)
 
2004 On a tout essayé (TV series)
 
2003 Get Up, Stand Up (TV series documentary)
 
2003 I Love the '70s (TV series documentary)
 
2001 Nine Hundred Nights (video documentary)
Themselves
 
1996 Power Vision - Pop Galerie (TV series documentary)
 
1986 Rock 'N' Roll Goldmine: The Sixties (documentary short)
Themselves
 
1985 British Rock: The First Wave (video documentary)
Themselves
 
1983 Cool Cats: 25 Years of Rock 'n' Roll Style (video documentary)
Themselves
 
1981 Musikladen (TV series)
 
1979 Quadrophenia
Themselves. (uncredited)
 
1977 All You Need Is Love (TV series documentary)
 
1976 The London Weekend Show (TV series)
 
1976 Top of the Pops (TV series)
 
1974 2nd House (TV series)
 
1966 Nuorten tanssihetki (TV series)
 

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