Who received IRA death threats

Rock legends The Who have revealed they received threats from the IRA when they first played in Ireland.

The band are guaranteed a rapturous welcome when they perform their first Irish gigs in six years when they kick off a European tour later this summer.

However, guitarist Pete Townshend admitted the English group’s first gigs here, in Dublin, Cork, and Belfast shortly after they formed in 1964 were “disastrous”.