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The Detours is a group of Skiffle and British Rock, formed with London in 1962. It is more known to be at the origin of the group The Who.

This group is one of many which essaimaient in the English capital with beginning of the year 60. Its leader was the guitarist soloist and trombonist Roger Daltrey. John Entwistle was with low. Shortly after the beginnings of the group, Entwistle engaged his/her friend Pete Townshend with the guitar. Three other members of the group were counted: called Gabby Connolly, occasional singer of Country; Dawson hake, vocalist in the vein of Cliff Richard; and a beater, Doug Sandom.

One evening, the young group made the first part of Johnny Kidd and the Pirates. This last combo was made of a Power trio associated with a singer. The Detours took the party to adopt the same formation. Daltrey became only singer after the ousting of Gabby and Dawson. At the end of a certain time, Doug Sandom ends up from going away in its turn (it was old thirty-five years whereas its assistants had not reached the score yet).

The Detours furrowed the clubs of the London West. One evening of 1964, they played hotel Oldfield de Greenford. At this point in time a strange rowdy character with the eccentric setting, praised by a member of the public, grants the battery not without to have dislodged without care the beater present this evening. It was of course about Keith Moon.

Some time later, the group renamed The Who, on the councils of a friend of Townshend, Richard Barnes.

Sources

History of the group on thewho.net
Dictionary of the Rock'n'roll , Michka Assayas, Robert Laffont, coll Books, Paris, 2002.

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