![]() ![]() ![]() But as long as that passion remains I’ll go on doing it. I don’t know whether the notes are quite the same as they used to be, because I’m a lot older, but they’re good enough, and it’s never been all about just notes to me anyway. Still do today, and when that dies we’ll stop. ![]() But hear it played live and it’s explosive. Even Who’s Next feels like we’re all constrained even though they’re great performances you can still hear the constraints of the studio. The personalities and performances were just too fucking big, and it was very difficult to do The Who justice in the studio for some reason. “The four walls of a studio could never contain us,” Daltrey attests. “The last gig.”Īnd how fortuitous that the footage ultimately captured the band in full effect, for the difference between The Who as a studio entity and as live band was always immense. The Who’s behind-closed-doors performance at Shepperton film studios, their first live work-out in well over a year and specifically arranged to provide contemporary footage for the movie, was also destined to be their very last show with Keith Moon. The timing of The Kids Are Alright may have been totally inexplicable, but it was also quite perfect. At the time it was released people were saying: ‘This film makes no sense, it’s a complete piece of rubbish.’ But now they call it one of the breakthrough moments of rock’n’roll film-making. It’s unpretentious, fun and an important rock’n’roll document. It captures the band at the pinnacle of our career. It’s complete anarchy but he gets away with it. I couldn’t be objective about it at the time, but I look at it now and think it’s a really important piece of work. We thought it was going to be some cheap little stuck-together production, and it ended up costing an arm and a leg. He did a short promo, and we said why not. “A fan came to us,” Daltrey remembers, “and said he’d like to make a film using clips of the band. There’s no doubting that the finished article was the best cinematic portrait of a band ever given a cinema release, but how did it come into being? Why would a band at their peak suddenly take time out to produce what was essentially an historical document? ![]()
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