Re: The Who - Eyewitness Book

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Omnibus Press Editor in Cheif Chris Charlesworth and
several other editors are currently suing Black and
their publishing company over the release of this
piece of grabage.

It really is a ripp-off of all other works with no
original work done at all and what was original was
totally wrong! He has written that Kenny Jones played
on the 1976 tour of the U.S. as Keith was too ill to
play the tour!!!???

Dave...

--- Scott Schrade <schrade@akrobiz.com> wrote:
> Johnny Black, a rock writer from the U.K., has
> assembled a day-by-day,
> diary-type book relating to the history of The Who. 
> It's 304 pages long,
> arranged chronologically (duh), & apart from the
> usual list of birthdays, 
> concerts, releases, T.V. appearances, etc., there
> are interview snippets 
> throughout which attempt to help it read more like
> story.
> 
> As has been stated, much of this book is culled from
> other sources (Concert
> File, Who In Sweden, In Their Own Words, etc.) which
> gave me that "I've-
> read-this-before" feeling as I skimmed through it. 
> The author does purport to
> have conducted his own interviews & a bibliography
> lets the reader know 
> that other material was used.  But I've read rumors
> that there is a law suit
> pending, perhaps because Mr. Black didn't get
> *everyone's* permission to
> use their work.  Naughty, naughty.
> 
> That said, this book still has value as a reference
> guide &, as far as I know,
> is the only Who book to give a chronological history
> sorted & arranged by 
> dates.  Year 2000 events are included.
> 
> However, the book does *not* succeed in it's
> attempts to read like a com-
> plete "story."  It's too segmented for that.  It's
> more like:  date, event, inter-
> view snippits, date, event, interview snippits
> (repeat for 304 pages).
> 
> The live shows are generally just listed & not
> nearly as detailed as in Concert
> File.  Quotes & interview snippits come from a wide
> range of sources & are
> not only from band members.
> 
> I didn't read the whole book so I hesitate to give
> it a grade.  One thing that
> irked me is that Keith moon driving a car into a
> swimming pool is mentioned 
> on the back cover *and * the inside flap!  A
> "hell-raising drummer" he's labelled.
> 
> The scant pictures are, for the most part, ones
> we've all seen before with a
> few exceptions.
> 
> I ordered the hardcover version from Amazon.uk but
> it's available in paper-
> back as well.  It's not a bad book.  If the author
> used other people's stuff
> without permission, that's not good.  Otherwise, the
> book does succeed as
> a reference-type collection in which you can flip
> open any page & find some-
> thing interesting.  Plus it's about The Who.  Did I
> mention that?
> 
> 
> - SCHRADE in Akron


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