Said by Pete Townshend to have been an influence on his past
and continuing works, and cited as the inspiration for the classic Quadrophenia.
"Irish Jack" - christened so by Who manager
Kit Lambert during a night-of madness - first met The Who in 1962
when the band was still known as The Detours (playing a bunch
of wedding dates in a half filled work diary), and he's been around
ever since: pontificating on the attitude of Mod, eulogizing
his Shepherd's Bush heroes, and sometimes eloquently tripping
over backstage cable.
Irish Jack reads his stories in London and New York, and always
the theme is the same: growing up in Sixties London and keeping abreast
of "the only band" he says, "that ever mattered". All of
his stories are true factual accounts, and he reads them with
unreserved glee, celebrating his own survival and the times
he lived in.