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What’s up at the halfway mark? New dates for The Who’s album and starring Sting, opened in London. Also on this date in 1979, the Who played their first concert with new drummer Kenny Jones, formerly of the Faces. Jones replaced Keith Moon, who had died of a sedative overdose the previous September.
In 1980, South African authorities banned Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall,” which had become the anthem of blacks involved in a strike against government schools.