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The best book on The Who. Stanfield understands that they were built entirely around opposition - they didnt want to be The Beatles or The Stones; they didnt even want to be The Who most of the time. He smartly states the case for peak Who as transgressive . . . the closest thing to Pop art British music has ever produced. Bob Stanley, author of Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern PopWith impressive eloquence, A Band with Built-In Hate situates 60s Britains most volatile and incendiary group at the heart of pops wild vortex . . . Stanfield digs brilliantly into The Whos transgressions, their up-ending of pop music into art-rock and proto-punk. He can see for miles. Barney Hoskyns, author of Major Dudes: A Steely Dan Companion and creator of Rocks BackpagesOurs is music with built-in hatred. Pete TownshendA 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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