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2007 Certificate Ex
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Spanning four decades, this authorized and definitive anthology of The Who relives their journey from humble beginnings to their meteoric rise to rock legend status in a 2-film DVD set. Filled with all-new interviews with band members Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend and music icons Sting, The Edge of U2, Eddie Vedder and more, .. Read more

Starring The Who
Director Paul Crowder
Genres Music/Musical

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Who, The : Amazing Journey - The Story Of The Who

Spanning four decades, this authorized and definitive anthology of The Who relives their journey from humble beginnings to their meteoric rise to rock legend status in a 2-film DVD set. Filled with all-new interviews with band members Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend and music icons Sting, The Edge of U2, Eddie Vedder and more, this must-have collection also features electrifying rare and unreleased concert footage in mind-blowing 5.1 surround sound.

Starring The Who
Director Paul Crowder
Studio UNIVERSAL PICTURES UK
Run time DVD: 2 hrs
Certificate Certificate Ex
Genres Music/Musical
Language DVD: English
Released DVD: 05 Nov 2007
Production year: 2007
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  • 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    Too text book

    This is similar to The Beatles' Anthology of a decade or so ago, in that the particpants are either over the hill or dead and it has a bit of an unsexy, text book feel. As with Anthology, it suffers from having its most charismatic figure largely absent: John Lennon in the Beatles' case, Keith Moon here. In fact, Moon only makes his entrance 15 minutes into the thing.

    Having just read the excellent Keith Moon biography Dear Boy, in which singer Roger Daltrey is sidelined a bit (much to his chagrin), this seemed more to take Daltrey's story as the narrative arc, showing how he felt alienated in the band but gradually came to feel accepted during the Tommy era to find his own voice, getting very close to Pete Townsend after the death of bassist John Entwistle.

    Some supefluous talking heads like The Edge, the ever smirking Noel Gallagher and Sting popping up for a sentence or two. I could have done with more music – there's a storming mid-60s cover of 'Heatwave' – and less of the old biddies in the early part of the doc talking about the Blitz and so on. A bit of a shock to see Keith Moon's mum still alive, or John Entwistle's mum not really looking too old and totally with it bearing in mind the bassist was old and grey before his death.

    Overall, it's not quite as good as The Kids Are Alright which benefits from diving straight in.

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  • 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    Too text book

    This is similar to The Beatles' Anthology of a decade or so ago, in that the particpants are either over the hill or dead and it has a bit of an unsexy, text book feel. As with Anthology, it suffers from having its most charismatic figure largely absent: John Lennon in the Beatles' case, Keith Moon here. In fact, Moon only makes his entrance 15 minutes into the thing.

    Having just read the excellent Keith Moon biography Dear Boy, in which singer Roger Daltrey is sidelined a bit (much to his chagrin), this seemed more to take Daltrey's story as the narrative arc, showing how he felt alienated in the band but gradually came to feel accepted during the Tommy era to find his own voice, getting very close to Pete Townsend after the death of bassist John Entwistle.

    Some supefluous talking heads like The Edge, the ever smirking Noel Gallagher and Sting popping up for a sentence or two. I could have done with more music – there's a storming mid-60s cover of 'Heatwave' – and less of the old biddies in the early part of the doc talking about the Blitz and so on. A bit of a shock to see Keith Moon's mum still alive, or John Entwistle's mum not really looking too old and totally with it bearing in mind the bassist was old and grey before his death.

    Overall, it's not quite as good as The Kids Are Alright which benefits from diving straight in.

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