The Who
Fifty Years of My Generation
Published on 2. November 2015
240 pages
978-1-62788-782-3 (ISBN)
Description
Explore 50 years of The Who with stories, photos, memorabilia, and more.
Famed music journalist Mat Snow celebrates fifty years of the Who's debut album, My Generation, with this complete illustrated history of the legendary rock band. Loaded with photos, memorabilia, and stories of rock decadence like no other, this book is the ideal visual companion for Who fans all over the world.
The Who formed in 1964 with lead singer Roger Daltrey, guitarist Pete Townshend, bassist John Entwhistle, and drummer Keith Moon, and continued on to become one of the best-selling bands of all time.
With an in-depth look of the Who's hit albums, including My Generation (1965), A Quick One (1966), The Who Sell Out (1967), Tommy (1969), Who's Next (1971), Quadrophenia (1973), The Who By Numbers (1975), and more, The Who is a must-have addition to any music library.
Famed music journalist Mat Snow celebrates fifty years of the Who's debut album, My Generation, with this complete illustrated history of the legendary rock band. Loaded with photos, memorabilia, and stories of rock decadence like no other, this book is the ideal visual companion for Who fans all over the world.
The Who formed in 1964 with lead singer Roger Daltrey, guitarist Pete Townshend, bassist John Entwhistle, and drummer Keith Moon, and continued on to become one of the best-selling bands of all time.
With an in-depth look of the Who's hit albums, including My Generation (1965), A Quick One (1966), The Who Sell Out (1967), Tommy (1969), Who's Next (1971), Quadrophenia (1973), The Who By Numbers (1975), and more, The Who is a must-have addition to any music library.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
Illustrations
250 color and b&w photographs
ISBN-13
978-1-62788-782-3 (9781627887823)
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12/2015
Race Point Publishing
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Person
London-born journalist and author Mat Snow is the award-winning former editor not only of the world-renowned music magazine Mojo but also the hardly less prestigious soccer magazine FourFourTwo. He has interviewed the Rolling Stones, the Who, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, the Kinks, half the Beatles, and many more. A regular writer for the British music magazines New Musical Express and Q in the 1980s and '90s, he has followed U2 since seeing them third on the bill at Manchester Polytechnic in May 1980.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Blitz Babies
- Chapter 2: Year Zero!
- Chapter 3: Artist, Teddy Boy, Taxman . . . and Maniac!
- Chapter 4: Mods!
- Chapter 5: Smash It Up!
- Chapter 6: Breakthrough!
- Chapter 7: Pop Art Stars!
- Chapter 8: Far Out!
- Chapter 9: Gambling on Genius
- Chapter 10: The Big Stage
- Chapter 11: Teenage Wasteland
- Chapter 12: Quad!
- Chapter 13: Rock Gods under Pressure
- Chapter 14: Battling through Tragedy
- Chapter 15: Burn Out!
- Chapter 16: Off...and On
- Chapter 17: And Then There Were Two
- Chapter 18: The Who Reborn
- Photography credits
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z
- Acknowledgments
- About the author
