Townshend

The estate is owned by Charlotte Townshend - who is estimated to be worth £489m by the Sunday Times 2024 Rich List.

Ms Townshend also owns Abbotsbury Swannery - making her the only person other than the King who is allowed to own swans in the UK.

When I told him how my sons and I had been thrilled by the presence of “Slip Kid” and “A Quick One, While He’s Away” on that tour, he explained there were two obstacles to such additions: one was that guitarist Pete Townshend was always reluctant to go back and relearn his own oldies, and the other is that while a few thousand audience members like me leaped out of our seats, “everybody else just goes to the toilet.”

A horror buff, he also published several genre novels and edited a short story collection with original work by fellow rockers Ray Davies, Pete Townshend and Joan Jett.

Nearby was Ali Louis Bourzgui, 24, who made his Broadway debut this season as the titular character in “The Who’s Tommy,” Pete Townshend and Des McAnuff’s rock-opera-turned-musical.