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The Who in Peoria

Details: Published on Sunday, 20 May 2012 12:21; Written by Kevin Kizer

This week, Kevin talks about Pete Townshend's upcoming biography, "Who I Am", which will be published this fall. And believe it or not there's a connection between The Who and Peoria. The World's Loudest Band played at the Opera House at Expo Gardens in '68. Here's a video clip:

About the Author

A Juilliard-trained writer, Kevin Kizer has fought against numerous world-champion writers during his career, besting the reigning middle weight writing champion in an exhibition bout in Helsinki in 1976. He also played a crucial role on the U.S. gold-medal winning writing team during the 1984 Pan-Am games, where he came off the bench in dramatic fashion to write the winning prepositional phrase just as time expired.