Cui Bono. Latin. “To whose benefit”? Cicero quoting a former Consul, Cassius Longinus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_bono кто кого (kto kogo). [cyrillic and latin alphabet] translation. ‘who, whom?” attributed to Vladimir Ulyanov a.k.a. Lenin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who,_whom The problem of the who has obviously been of central concern to political philosophy since the time of the Romans but I also think it is one for the newer subject of Business Studies.
“Ladies and Gentlemen, a nice rock and roll band from Shepherds Bush, London, The Oo.” (Stage Announcer, The Isle of Wight Festival, 1970.). The first minute is all you need to watch.
Currently on Australian television there’s a Tom Hanks’ produced documentary, ‘The Sixties’. The episode on pop music of that decade had one music-industry fellow saying on ‘The Who’.
“You could not tell who was supposed to be leading the band on stage, it could be Daltrey the singer, or Moon the drummer, Townshend, the guitarist, or even Entwistle the bass player.”
“We really have absolutely nothing in common apart from music”. (Keith Moon).
Well is this not a problem for the finest scholars of the Harvard MBA faculty? How can there be an effective team when a team leader cannot be identified? And why did The Who sound as a unit when they are all playing individually and trying to take the lead? I’m sorry, but the maxims of management theory (cliches more likely), “There’s no ‘I’ in ‘team’.” “A champion team will always beat a team of champions.” need re-thinking. Have billions of dollars been wasted over the past thirty years paying management consultants (with MBAs) through all the advanced economies to little or no avail trying to create team-bonding? Should do a Case Study on this! 
Photo Keith Moon Copyright Barrie Wentzel.
Shepherd’s Bush/Acton/West London. The Academy would say it’s unknowable. Or worse, ludicrous linguistics. I don’t think so. Americans speculate on what possible English accent George Washington may have spoken.
http://dialectblog.com/2012/07/04/how-george-washington-spoke-brief-thoughts/
Somerset bordering on Cornwall or possibly even Black Country/Birmingham (I don’t think George Washington would have sounded like Ozzy Osbourne/Tony Iommi/Geezer Butler/Bill Ward of Black Sabbath but let it pass!). Only 80 years (or less) on from Washington, Ealing a suburb in West London. And then in 1970, Pete Townshend announcing to the concert goers on The Isle of Wight, “Stand up, Sit down, Sit down, Stand up, we like our audience fit.” I can think of someone who may have shouted something like this. “Stand up, Sit down, Sit down, Stand up, in Foochow I like my Fukienese street mobs cowed.”
It would only be 125 years on from Fuzhou to the Isle of Wight! Who’s to say that Dr Alcock and Pete Townshend didn’t sound similar?! You can hear the “Stand up” audience greeting on the YouTube audio-visual above but the sound quality is not the best. The DVD of the concert is much clearer; other excerpts of Townshend’s speech are on the Isle of Wight concert YouTube.
600 000 people on the Isle of Wight in 1970? I suppose it’s just about feasible for three days with that number of visitors to accomodate in tents with their washing, feeding, ablutions etc. For all the energy of ‘The Who’, on stage in August 1970. Townshend in his white suit jumping around and Keith Moon in his tee-shirt flailing at the drums, it wasn’t ‘The Who’, I would argue, were the most influential men in white clothes in the culture of England at that point in time. Instead millions more would be following/listening on the radio/watching on television the M.C.C. who were to fly out on their tour of Australia and New Zealand (1970-71) and which commenced in Port Pirie, South Australia, in late October 1970. Sussex fast bowler, John Snow, was expending as much artistic energy with off-cutters and short-pitched deliveries at Australian batsmen as Townshend or Moon. More scary for being in black and white.
Nor to The Who did the biggest chart-topping hit album of the last months of 1970 belong. In the USA that was, “Come on Get Happy”. By the Partridge Family!
For me, the most interesting member of ‘The Who’ is not Roger Daltrey twirling his mike around his platinum afro while pursuing a 1970s movie career, nor the sadly self-destructive ‘Moon the Loon’. Townshend with his devotion to Zoroastrian Persian mystic, God in human form (and schoolboy cricketer!) Meher Baba did show some complexity it must be admitted… 
No. The most interesting is…The Ox! John Entwistle. The only man with musical training in The Who. The only man who held a job before the band. And what a job too…one with which I am familiar! From his Wiki…
Entwistle’s mansion in Stow-on-the-Wold in the Cotswolds and a number of his personal effects were later sold off to meet the demands of the Inland Revenue; ironically, John Entwistle worked for the agency in 1962–63 as a Tax Officer before being demoted to filing clerk, prior to joining The Who.
Nor do I think his personal theology lacked anything by comparison with Townshend’s eastern exoticism.
One aspect of John Entwistle’s life emerged after his death that came as a surprise even to those closest to him, including the members of The Who. “It wasn’t until the day of his funeral that I discovered that he’d spent most of his life as a freemason”, said Pete Townshend.
Ringo Starr (may he long be with us) turns out to be a member of the Scottish Lodge…wouldn’t surprise me!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Lodge_of_Scotland
The Ox’s haircut, though? One could just about imagine a ‘Swinging Sixties’ London hairdresser remembering high school textbooks with pictorial reproductions and thinking…”Wouldn’t this be cool, the most violent men in English history, The Wars of the Roses, looked like this.” 
“I’ll give The Ox this haircut.” 
Who, though, among Seoul hairdressers in the early years of the last decade (I would guess Seoul, the style would have later arrived in the Jeolla region of Korea) decided that the haircut of The Ox would be suitable for Korean schoolgirls? 
Who indeed!
Notes. MCC Tour of Australia and New Zealand 1970-71. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCC_tour_of_Australia_in_1970%E2%80%9371 Townshend’s Avatar, Meher Baba, may well have thought of ‘Who, Whom?”, drawing on Zoroastrian/Sufi beliefs in the early decades of the 20th Century, before Lenin arrived at his improvement (if it could be called that) to Karl Marx’s theories. Interestingly, Townshend regards himself as a communist. More interesting is a Meher Baba retreat for worldwide followers…just north of Brisbane! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avatar%27s_Abode And most interesting of all is this photo. 
Photoshopped? Looking at it either Townshend was astral travelling with that leap (no record of Meher Baba being into such levitation) or he should have been on tour with MCC in 1970. Higher delivery stride than John Snow or even, in all modesty, myself! Tom Hanks’ tv series, “The Sixties.” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3268200/
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