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On this day, 8 July 1966, legendary rock band The Who played Cardiff’s Top Rank.
The band had released the single ‘Substitute’ a few months earlier that reached number five in the UK.
"Substitute" was primarily inspired by the 1965 soul single "The Tracks of My Tears" by Smokey Robinson and the Miracles. Pete Townshend became obsessed, particularly, with the line, "Although she may be cute/She's just a substitute." This had then led Townshend "to celebrate the word with a song all its own."
The guitar solo is played by bassist John Entwistle who later said: 'I played a Gibson SG medium scale bass with wire-wound strings. When it got to the solo, because we were recording and mixing it virtually live, I thought, yeah, this should be a bass solo, so I turned my volume up and they couldn’t mix me out, so it ended up as a bass solo.'
The Who get to take a few days off as Keith becomes a father. Amanda Moon is born to the secretly-married drummer and his wife Kim on the 12 July. Keith, however, fails to bring his wife home from the hospital because he is on a three-day LSD trip.
