Guide Note

Amazing Journey: The Story Of The Who is a documentary film about the Rock band The Who. The film features interviews with the remaining two survivors of the band, Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey

Fast Facts

1. Directors: Murray Lerner, Paul Crowder
2. Writer: Mark Monroe
3. Producer: Spitfire Pictures
4. Running Time: 237 Minutes

The Who was a famous English rock and roll band, formed in 1964. The band consisted of members, Pete Townshend on guitar and vocals, Roger Daltrey on lead vocals, John Entwistle on bass, and Keith Moon on drums.

• The band produced such hits as:
• "Won't Get Fooled Again"
• "Pinball Wizard"
• "My Generation"
• "Behind Blue Eyes"
• "Teenage Wasteland", which is correctly titled, "Baba O'Riley".

• Keith Moon died of an overdose in 1978.
• John Entwistle died of a heart attack in 2002.

• Gustav Metzger comes in and shows movies of him with one young Yoko Ono, by the way, bursting through paintings with... You know, slashing at it with a sword, and a bunch of what looks like idiotic art students on the streets smashing up an old piano, and then tries to describe his thesis, which was that what we're doing is we're destroying our planet, and what art should do is reflect that destruction.
• -Pete Townshend

• Typically, if the drummer were to add a second bass drum part, he would continue to lead on the downbeats with his right foot, and then any sort of extra notes would come out of the left. But that's not the way that Keith did it. When he would come to a section that required double bass playing, he would switch to a left-foot lead, which is the most insane thing I think I've ever heard of.
• -Rob Ladd