The Who Codexery — Data & Quality

We publish our audit record because accuracy claims should be checkable. Every entry on this site runs through an automated fact-audit pipeline (accuracy audit → source-grounded repair → visual QA); this page is generated from that pipeline's own report, not written by hand.

This is a fiction/fan codex: entries describe an in-universe canon. Our audits check canon and internal consistency — external fact-checking does not apply the way it does on real-subject codexes.

Last full accuracy audit: 2026-08-24 · 28 entries checked · 21 flagged · 59 issues confirmed · 21 corrected · 38 still open

Recent findings (audit lane, verbatim)

John Entwistle — 'Bargain' is not a solo composition by John Entwistle; it was written by Pete Townshend and appears on 'Who's Next' (1971), not 'The Who Sell Out' (1967).

John Entwistle — Entwistle's solo album from 1972 is titled 'Smash Your Head Against the Wall', not 'Smash Your Head with a British Bass'.

Keith Moon — Keith Moon died in London, England, not Berlin, Germany.

Zak Starkey — The entry states Starkey toured and recorded with the Who from 1996 to 2025, but as of the established canon, he left the Who in 2022, not 2025.

Zak Starkey — The entry claims Starkey performed with the Who at the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony, but the Who performed at the 2012 London Olympics closing ceremony on 12 August 2012 without Zak Starkey; the drummer for that performance was Scott Devours.

John "Rabbit" Bundrick — 'Who's Last' is a live album from 1984, not a studio album, and is not described as 'stripped-down punk-adjacent energy'; the description misattributes its nature and era.

John "Rabbit" Bundrick — 'Life's a Long Song' is not a Who album; it is a compilation or a track title, not a studio album from the 1990s/2010s.

The Beatles — The Who formed in Shepherd's Bush, West London, not South London.

The Beatles — There is no widely known evidence of The Beatles and The Who sharing a regional tour in the early 1960s.

Roger Daltrey — The Faces project is described as late 1960s (c. 1968), but Roger Daltrey's early side project with John 'Rabbit' Bundrick was not called 'The Faces'; The Faces was a different band formed in 1969 that did not include Daltrey.

Roger Daltrey — The entry claims The Faces produced a single album, but no album by a group called The Faces featuring Roger Daltrey exists.

Pete Townshend — The entry states Townshend was born at Chiswick Hospital, Netheravon Road, but he was actually born at the West Middlesex Hospital in Isleworth.

Pete Townshend — The entry claims his grandmother Emma purchased his first guitar for Christmas in 1956, but reliable sources state it was his mother who bought him his first guitar.

Roger Daltrey — Daltrey was born at 9 Queens Road, East Acton, not at Hammersmith Hospital

Roger Daltrey — Daltrey made his first guitar from a block of wood, not a cherry red Stratocaster replica

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