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Re: Decade Of The Who
Denis Bowler <Denis_Bowler@magellan.erin.gov.au> wrote...
>REGARDING Decade Of The Who
>I received a mail order catalogue the other day which has a book 'A Decade Of
>The Who' listed. Does anyone have this? If so is it worth getting?
I have it. It has a copyright date of 1977, and I'd guess I bought it in
that year or soon after.
It is subtitled "An Authorised History in Music, Paintings, Words and
Photographs", and that's a pretty accurate description. It contains 239
pages. As you might have guessed, it's a history of the first ten years of
The Who, 1965 to 1975. (As I recall Pete saying in an interview at that
time, "A _Decayed_ of The Who" ;^)
Let's flip through it here...childhood photos of the members of The Who (no
surprise that Keith was quite animated as a child), quite a bit of artwork
by John Davis, ancient High Numbers photos (Roger on trombone? Yes! We
have a photo here...) and a bunch of text.
I'm quite sure what made me buy it back then, beyond being a huge Who fan,
is that it contains sheet music hand-annotated by Pete. An example: