![]() ![]() I would later share an apartment with Kit and my girlfriend in London, and Pete would come over a lot. I love Pete and still do we email each other fairly often. So my relationship with them was really through their managers at first, who I grew to love very much. He and Chris Stamp were talking about what would later be the first song they performed on the show. When I was taking over Ready Steady Go!, I heard a voice in an adjacent office and it was Kit. We weren’t exactly friends at school, but we noticed each other. I attended Oxford for a year and I met Kit Lambert, who would go on to be the Who’s manager. But the relationship with them goes deeper. I also directed the videos for “My Generation,” “Substitute,” and “Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere.” It wasn’t like I was listening to the Who I was actually working with them. The producer at the time was a great admirer of the Who, and made sure to book them for the show a lot. I used to direct a live rock-and-roll television show called Ready Steady Go!, and they were on it a lot. But what was your association with the Who like? Your relationship with the Rolling Stones ran deep prior to this special. He took some time out of fine-tuning his art show in Paris to discuss his favorite behind-the-scenes memories, his best shots, and the power of Townshend’s blue eyes. Vulture gave the venerable director of Rock and Roll Circus, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, a (not quick) call to learn more about what it was like to be in the room where it happened more than 50 years ago. You could barely see Entwistle’s spiky shirt sleeves!) (It should be noted, though, that this “A Quick One” performance was cleared for use in 1978’s The Kids Are Alright as a stand-alone vignette, but the quality was subpar. ![]() ( And it has.)įor the uninitiated, Rock and Roll Circus was organized by the Stones as a means of (1) trying a different type of press for their new album at the time, Beggars Banquet, and (2) because who the hell wouldn’t want to spend a day dabbling in music and drugs with the Who, John Lennon, Eric Clapton, and other legends? While wearing snazzy ringleader hats? Without spoiling the performance too much, Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, Keith Moon, and John Entwistle delivered a textbook definition of “rock” that night, which becomes even more iconic when you remember that the special wasn’t released until 1996 - which may or may not have been because Mick Jagger was jealous that he was outperformed at his own gig. ![]() The Who performed their mini rock opera, “A Quick One (While He’s Away),” as part of The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus concert film, which in itself is the stuff of rock folklore that could warrant an oral history or ten. The pièce de résistance of these uploads, though, transports us back to December 1968. The gossipy spiral of the Who’s press tour for their new album, WHO, likely prevented you from checking out something truly magical transpiring on the band’s YouTube page: Over the past few weeks, a bunch of beautifully restored videos have been uploaded from their glory years, ranging from a “You Better You Bet” promo in 1981 to the sublime The Kids Are Alright sessions in 1978. ![]()
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