[bomp] Re: Who biographies

[NankerPhlg@xxxxxxx]

<<< There's also "Anyway Anyhow Anywhere: The Complete Chronicle of the Who 
1958-1978," a massive hardcover tome.  I don't have it but it looks like it 
offers excellent, photo-filled coverage, and it stops with Moonie's death so it 
only deals with the years that matter. >>>

That's a good one...that's The Who's equivalent of the post-Mark Lewisohn 
stipulation that every major band of the 1960s has to have a big "Everything they 
did and the day they did it" book. It's not a biography, per se, but more of 
a reference, as it's a date by date look at all their concerts, sessions, TV 
shows, radio shows etc., so it's more focused on the actual work they did and 
less on things in their personal lives and their reflections, though you still 
get a sense of the whole picture, as the writer fills things in here and there 
with overviews of each year. Lots of reproductions of rare photos, 
promotional material, documents, handwritten letters from Pete, and even the script of 
the Smothers' Brothers Comedy Hour spot, allowing us to see just how much of 
the pre-'My Generation" banter was pre-scripted and how much the Who altered on 
the spot. (Examples, Tommy Smothers initially walking by and ignoring Roger 
was pre-scripted, but Roger's claim that he was from Oz was not).

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