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A Band with Built-In Hate - The Who from Pop Art to Punk (Paperback)
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A Band with Built-In Hate - The Who from Pop Art to Punk (Paperback)
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List price R410
Loot Price R336
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You Save R74 (18%)
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'Ours is music with built-in hatred.' - Pete Townshend A Band with
Built-In Hate pictures The Who from their inception as the Detours
in the mid-sixties to the late seventies, post-Quadrophenia. It is
a story of ambition and anger, glamour and grime, viewed through
the prism of pop art and the radical levelling of high and low
culture that it brought about - a drama that was aggressively
performed by the band. Peter Stanfield lays down a path through the
British pop revolution, its attitude and style, as it was uniquely
embodied by The Who: first, under the mentorship of arch-mod Peter
Meaden, as they learnt their trade in the pubs and halls of
suburban London; and then with Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp, two
aspiring filmmakers, at the very centre of things in Soho. Guided
by contemporary commentators - among them George Melly, Lawrence
Alloway and most conspicuously Nik Cohn - Stanfield describes a
band driven by belligerence, and of what happened when Townshend,
Daltrey, Moon and Entwistle moved from back-room stages to
international arenas, from explosive 45s to expansive concept
albums. Above all, he tells of how The Who confronted their lost
youth as it was echoed in punk.
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