Tag: the who

• Memoir: One day in 1975

  

  When South Oak Park’s David Bowie passes us on the school playground, my friends smile and shake their heads in judgment. “Would you get a look at that fag? He’s wearing his mom’s makeup!”

  abendelow

  October 9, 2025

  memoir

  1975, am radio, consumerism, Creem magazine, david bowie, elton john, ginger baker, homophobia, homosexuality, john bonham, keith moon, oak park, pop culture, popular music, quadrophenia, sexuality, south oak park, the who

• Memoir: from Captain Fantastic (1974) to Quadrophenia (1980)

  

  The music hadn’t changed a bit. But I had.

  abendelow

  November 6, 2023

  memoir

  alice cooper, am radio, british pop, captain fantastic, Circus magazine, Creem magazine, david bowie, elton john, gary glitter, homophobia, memoir, music, oak park, pop music, quadrophenia, t-rex, the beatles, the who

• Memoir: moments of freedom, part 1

  For this post, “freedom” is the sense of agency one gets when freed from external constraints on one’s choices. This freedom from allows one the freedom to–to choose one’s course in a universe where “free will” is ultimately an illusion. Feeling free never lasts. It’s there for a moment that passes as soon as you…

  abendelow

  January 26, 2023

  memoir

  1960s, cool hand luke, jack webb, memoir, oak park, the who