Interviews, TV clips and concert footage make up this comprehensive profile of The Who, Britain's premiere rock band.Interviews, TV clips and concert footage make up this comprehensive profile of The Who, Britain's premiere rock band.Interviews, TV clips and concert footage make up this comprehensive profile of The Who, Britain's premiere rock band.
- Self
- (as Tommy Smothers)
- Self
- (as Melvin Bragg)
- Self
- (as Keith Richard)
- Norman Gunston
- (as Norman Gunsten)
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- All cast & crew
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- TriviaIn addition to compiling rare clips, Jeff Stein arranged for The Who to film a concert for invited fans. The show, performed at Shepperton Film Studios in London on 25 May 1978, turned out to be Keith Moon's last concert with The Who before his death on 7 September at the age of 32.
- GoofsRick Danko of The Band is listed in the end credits as appearing in the film, even though his segment was deleted from the final print.
- Quotes
Pete Townshend: When I'm on the stage - let me try and explain - when I'm on the stage, I'm not in control of myself at all. I don't even know who I am, you know. I'm not this rational person that can sit here now and talk to you. If you walked on the stage with a microphone in the middle of a concert, I'd probably come close to killing you - I *have* come close to killing people that walked on the stage. Abbie Hofmann walked on the stage at Woodstock and I nearly killed him with me guitar. A cameraman walked the stage - a, a, a policeman came on when the bloody building at the Fillmore in New York was burning down - and I kicked him in the balls and sent him off, you know. Because - I - I'm just not there, really. It's not like being possessed, it's just - I do my job. And I know that I have to get into a certain state of mind to do it.
- Crazy creditsVarious clips of stage goodbyes from live appearances of The Who through the years are shown during the closing credits.
- Alternate versionsThe version of the film that appears on Turner Classic Movies features The Who's Rock N' Roll Circus performance window-boxed and surrounded by flashing marquee lights in the manner of the film's original theatrical presentation.
- ConnectionsEdited from Monterey Pop (1968)
It also gave me a new perspective beyond The Who and into the world of the modern music world and INDUSTRY. Most people have seen Trent Reznor and Kurt Cobain destroying their equipment at Woodstock and on Mtv, but have they seen The Who do it on the Smother's Brothers Show? THAT is insane!!! That was 35+ years ago...
Where is modern pop-music going? That's what I ask after this film. What is being done today that hasn't been done before? The answer is pretty close to nothing. Except a lot more money is being made...big deal.
10 out of 10... Easily as good as "Don't Look Back" and the Bob Marley docs I've seen. Just as inspiring.
- zerodegreesk
- Jul 31, 2001
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- Детишки в порядке
- Filming locations
- Ramport Studios, Battersea, London, England, UK("Who Are You" video)
- Production company
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- Budget
- $2,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 49 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1