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publication: August 2002
regular price: £245 + shipping
deluxe price: £390 + shipping [fully subscribed]
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MAXIMUM WHO |
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The Who in the Sixties
Compiled by Ross HalfinFor the first time in one book, Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle and Pete
Townshend have all written text.
'sublime... a very beautiful thing. Superb classic and intimate photographs
of the band'.
'Maximum Who: The Who in the Sixties strikes a perfect balance between its lavish illustrations and hilarious recollections by Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey and the late John Entwistle... The live shots burst off the page.'
Featuring rare and never-before-seen photographs by: Tony Gale, Colin Jones, Chris Morphet, Dominique Tarlé, David Wedgebury and Baron Wolman.
Ross Halfin: 'This book graphically defines the image of The Who in the Sixties in a way that has never been done before.'
This exceptional, large-format limited edition book documents all facets of the explosion of The Who onto the British scene in the Sixties. Ross Halfin's inspired image selection presents the band's early years, from 1964 with the arrival of drummer Keith Moon and the appointment of management team Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp, to 1969 with The Who on the cusp of stellar success recording and rehearsing Tommy.
Fundamental as The Who's music undoubtedly was, it was their visual imagery and sheer, staggering vitality on stage that forms the most indelible image of Sixties London. Forget angry young men. The Who sped through the mid-Sixties almost incandescent with rage: at the world around them, at their equipment, but mainly at each other. Now for the first time in one book Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey and John Entwistle re-live the creative rivalry, tense recording sessions, freezing photo shoots, girls, gigs and the multitude of other highs and lows that went hand-in-hand with being thrown into the forefront of the Sixties revolution.
Roger Daltrey:
It was just really exciting times, with the Mod thing coming up. Most of my time was spent being the singer and the placater of many fights that were going to happen in the audience! A lot of my mates were into all sorts of mischief in those days.
Glyn Johns:
Most of the stories about Keith Moon aren't really very funny. They usually involved some elderly person getting injured or something horrible.
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John Entwistle:
The stories are funny when told, but the actual aftermath was the horrible bit. You smash up a hotel, you get thrown out and you have to pay. In the end hotels were putting us in rooms that needed redecorating, hoping we'd smash them up. So the whole smashing period was a pain in the arse. You'd have to find another hotel, and usually the hotels would phone each other ahead and say, 'Don't book these guys in, they're monsters.' I mean, we got banned from Holiday Inns for life. In America there've been occasions where we've had to stay in one state and drive to another to play the gig, and we had to completely move out of Alabama when we blew the toilet up.
Maximum Who includes shots of some legendary performances by the band during the Sixties: the embryonic shows at the Goldhawk Club; recording on Ready Steady Go! and at the Duke of York's Barracks for American TV; live at the Richmond Jazz Festival in 1965, the Pembroke College May Ball in Oxford, and more. The Who are shown in the recording studio in the early days with Shel Talmy and Glyn Johns and later when recording Tommy. Rehearsal sessions are also pictured while more private moments are captured in photographs of Pete, Roger and John in their London homes, with their beloved cars, and in the quest for Mod clothes in Chelsea boutiques.
Pete Townshend:
Tommy was huge. It made Roger into a proper front man. He was magnificent on stage from this time forwards. I felt as if a huge weight had been lifted. I think I probably resented that there was yet another glamour boy on stage (apart from Keith and his goo-goo eyes), but the pros outweighed the cons. The women backstage were prettier. And Roger was almost always very, very happy.
Several other key members of the band's circle, including Glyn Johns and Bob Pridden, as well as Pop Artist Peter Blake, add their thoughts on their experiences with the band. These extraordinary images coupled with the fresh and revealing text make this an edition of supreme importance to anyone interested in rock culture. And of course for Who fans everywhere this amazing leather-bound volume is absolutely essential to their collection.
Bob Pridden:
My first gig with them was at Streatham Locarno. When the stage turned round and they were playing 'Heatwave' I went into a state of shock. I'd never seen such energy in a live band ever, ever, ever. Total frightening energy. Afterwards, when they'd smashed all the gear up and were walking off stage, Roger said to me, 'Get it fixed for tomorrow.' I thought, 'This is going to be fun.'
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Ross Halfin
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 Visit the Picture House, which features QuickTime movies of author Ross Halfin and photographer Colin Jones talking about the band and the book.
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This edition is limited to 1,500 numbered copies signed by Ross Halfin, of which 1,250 are bound in quarter leather and red cloth, and 250 Deluxe copies are bound in full leather and additionally signed by Roger Daltrey. This large-format volume is produced to the very highest standards on 200gsm matt art paper, with gilt page edges. The images and text are printed in monochrome and full colour with image varnishing. The front board is silkscreened with the famous Who logo and Mod target. The book, a supreme example of the printer's art, is enclosed in an elegant slipcase. [Trimmed page size: 360mm x 250mm.
Number of pages: 272]
The Deluxe copies we bound in full leather and numbered from 1 to 250 inclusive. They are additionally signed by Roger Daltrey on behalf of Teenage Cancer Trust to which cause Genesis has made a donation. For more details visit www.teencancer.com - Teenage Cancer Trust, Kirkman House, Kirkman Place, 54a Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 2EL Registered Charity No. 1063559
Lovingly created to immaculate standards of editorial, design and printing, Maximum Who, like every edition by Genesis Publications, is a book to be treasured forever. As the leading limited edition publisher in the fields of modern music and culture, working with the world's most highly regarded artists, musicians and writers, Genesis has established a reputation for quality which is second to none. Genesis fine limited editions are now collected by loyal subscribers in almost sixty countries. Such subscribers include Rare and Fine Printed Books Departments of major libraries and institutions. The Who Live, the first and only other book on The Who to be published by Genesis, is now sold out worldwide, and copies are highly sought-after.
'Genesis books are in a league of their own. They speak a visual language constructed on their own terms and they're finished to a quality which reduces other, mere ordinary, books to the level of pulp paperbacks. Just as importantly, their texts open up the worlds of their subjects... rewarding the reader with unprecedented access and insight.'
Record Collector magazine
Make sure that you don't miss out on your chance to obtain Maximum Who. For, as with all Genesis editions, early ordering is strongly advised to avoid disappointment. Deluxe copies are now fully subscribed.
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LINKS
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