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Hello, All.

From:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/27/music.who.reut/index.html

LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- The two surviving members of The Who are
producing a documentary about the British rock band's turbulent history, an
ongoing 40-year saga of death, drugs and timeless tunes.

Guitarist/songwriter Pete Townshend and singer Roger Daltrey have joined forces
on the feature-length project with Murray Lerner, an Oscar-winning documentary
director who first filmed the band during the 1970 Isle of Wight festival.

Tentatively titled "My Generation: Who's Still Who" -- a reference to their
breakthrough 1965 hit "My Generation" -- the film is scheduled to come out next
year. Lerner said there are plans for a theatrical release, a CD and a
multi-disc DVD set.

"There will be very unusual stuff, hopefully, that never was seen before,"
Lerner told Reuters. "We're looking for material like fights between them, on
and off the stage, unruly fans that make it difficult, weird incidents on the
stage, interviews with ex-wives and girlfriends."

To that end, the filmmakers have set up a Web site, http://www.thewhomovie.com,
seeking material from fans.

The Who previously released a documentary, "The Kids Are Alright," in 1979.
While "Kids" featured vintage and new performance clips, and amusing TV
interviews, the new film will be more ambitious.

"I'm going to try and put you in another world that almost smacks of ...
science fiction," Lerner said. "I'm doing something like an opera. ... I'm
going to play around with stylizing interview voices that change into music and
back."

Half of the original band will not be able to participate: drummer Keith Moon
died of a drug overdose in 1978, while bassist John Entwistle succumbed to a
cocaine-related heart attack in 2002.

The Who formed in the early 1960s, winning attention for their costly habit of
smashing their equipment at each show. When Townshend and Daltrey weren't
pummeling each other and Moon wasn't causing drunken mayhem, the band recorded
hit singles, innovative rock operas, and classic albums like "Tommy" and "Who's
Next."

"They brought important ideas to music in a way that they felt was different
from anybody else, and also they participated with their audience in a way that
was different from other rock groups," Lerner said. "They were part of their
audience."

The Who plan to renew that bond by touring next year, Lerner said. They also
have been working for years on a follow-up to their last studio album, 1982's
"It's Hard."

At the behest of the Who's managers, Lerner will examine the tragic concert at
Cincinnati in 1979, when 11 people were trampled to death before the Who took
the stage.

Lerner is developing his final script and design concepts, and will then
undertake the interviews. He won an Academy Award in 1981 for his documentary
"From Mao To Mozart: Isaac Stern In China," and has just finished a film study
of late jazz icon Miles Davis, "Miles Electric: A Different Kind of Blue."

Also on board as producers of the Who film are Nigel Sinclair and Guy East of
independent movie company Spitfire Pictures, and Who managers Bill Curbishley
and Robert Rosenberg.

Later,
Sean

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