1970 TIMELINE
JANUARY 4
KEITH MOON ACCIDENTALLY KILLS HIS CHAUFFEUR
The looning takes on a darker tone when the wildman Who drummer runs down his chauffeur while escaping a drunken mob surrounding his Bentley outside a Hertfordshire pub. Neil Boland’s death is ruled an accident, but the episode haunts the drummer for the final eight years of his life. “Nobody actually pointed a finger at him and said: ‘You killed your best friend’,” said Pete Townshend. “But that was the thing that went through his head.”
“Nobody actually pointed a finger at him and said: ‘You killed your best friend.’”
JANUARY 16
JOHN LENNON’S “SICK” ART EXHIBITION IS SHUT DOWN
Police raid John Lennon’s Bag One exhibition at the London Arts Gallery, after being told by a local magistrate that the exhibition includes nude sketches depicting the Beatle and new wife Yoko Ono on honeymoon.
“Many toilet walls depict works of similar merit,” notes Detective Inspector Frederick Luff. “It is perhaps charitable to suggest that they are the work of a sick mind.”
JANUARY 23
PINK FLOYD RISE, SYD BARRETT FALLS
In the same month that estranged Floyd frontman Syd Barrett crawls to UK No.40 with his debut solo album The Madcap Laughs, his former bandmates perform their
