Roger Daltree started The Detours in 1959 while he was still trying to find his place in school. The band might have been started as an escape, but grew in a couple of years into The Who. When they found out there was another band that used the term Detours in their name, they changed theirs into something that sounded weird as an announcement: Here are No One, or The Group.
That was 1964, a year after the first show of BBC’s Doctor Who. Were these two connected somehow? Or was the word in the air in the UK of the 60s? Another connection between the two might be mentionable: both were experimenting with electronics in their music.
The album Who’s next is from a few years later: 1971. The album is the consequence of the failing of another of Pete Townshend’s trials at creating a rock opera. He did Tommy earlier, and this time it was called Lifehouse. It collapsed before getting anywhere near the theatre, probably because its overblown ambitions. Remainders of it made it into this album, and contributed to this being considered one of the best rock albums of all time.