60 YEARS AGO TODAY:
9/26/65 – Sonny and Cher appear on “The Ed Sullivan Show”
Also on 9/26, Who lead singer Roger Daltrey knocked out Drummer Keith Moon after an argument broke out between all four band members while on a short Scandinavian tour. (The band had just played two shows in one night in Denmark to wrap up their European tour … and tempers got heated after Daltrey learned that Moon had supplied illegal drugs to bandmates Pete Thownshend and John Entwistle.) Daltrey was unanimously fired from the band due to the incident … but was reinstated a week later (on probation) after promising not to fight again
When asked why he did it, Daltrey said "I Can't Explain." While a few reporters may have accepted that answer at the time, they all later acknowledged that they "Won't Get Fooled Again.") Daltrey later reflected, “I thought if I lost the band, I was dead."
Also on 9/26, The Minnesota Twins win their first American League pennant. Ironically, they beat the Washington Senators to do it. (The Twins were the original Washington Senators, founded in 1901 … but moved to Minnesota in 1961 and renamed themselves The Minnesota Twins.)
