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Pretend You're In A War - The Who and the Sixties (Paperback)
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Pretend You're In A War - The Who and the Sixties (Paperback)
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List price R293
Loot Price R152
Discovery Miles 1 520
You Save R141 (48%)
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'A definitive tome for both Who fans and newcomers alike' ***** Q
Magazine Pete Townshend was once asked how he prepared himself for
The Who' s violent live performances. His answer? ' Pretend you' re
in a war.' For a band as prone to furious infighting as it was
notorious for acts of ' auto-destructive art' this could have
served as a motto. Between 1964 and 1969 The Who released some of
the most dramatic and confrontational music of the decade,
including ' I Can' t Explain' , ' My Generation' and ' I Can See
For Miles' . This was a body of work driven by bitter rivalry,
black humour and dark childhood secrets, but it also held up a
mirror to a society in transition. Now, acclaimed rock biographer
Mark Blake goes in search of its inspiration to present a unique
perspective on both The Who and the sixties. From their
breakthrough as Mod figureheads to the rise and fall of
psychedelia, he reveals how The Who, in their explorations of sex,
drugs, spirituality and class, refracted the growing turbulence of
the time. He also lays bare the colourful but crucial role played
by their managers, Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp. And - in the uneasy
alliance between art-school experimentation and working-class
ambition - he locates the motor of the Swinging Sixties. As the
decade closed, with The Who performing Tommy in front of 500,000
people at the Woodstock Festival, the ' rock opera' was born. In
retrospect, it was the crowning achievement of a band who had
already embraced pop art and the concept album; who had pioneered
the power chord and the guitar smash; and who had embodied - more
so than any of their peers - the guiding spirit of the age: war.
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