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The Breakdown: The Beatles, Blackfield, The Who

Written by Tom Johnson
Published November 06, 2007
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The Who - Amazing Journey: The Story of the Who: It might be easy to look at the title of this and dismiss this as yet another of those "unauthorized biographies" that seem to flood the market around Christmas, the kind of thing that small labels hope desperate, unwitting buyers will pick up at the last minute for loved ones they know love the bands. And looking at the cover doesn't help - nearly generic, with that RAF logo that the band was known for in the early days (it's really a photo of Keith, but that's beside the point). It doesn't look legit but it is, and in some ways it's kind of the flip-side of The Kids Are Alright, which presented the band from the perspective of video clips from their career. Now we get the band from their own perspective, via new interviews with Pete and Roger along with family and friends and archival footage (as well as some celebrity interjections about the band).

The big deal with this one, why you want to get out and pick one up now, is, you guessed it, a Best Buy exclusive, and it's pretty big - like the one for Tom Petty's Runnin' Down a Dream big. Only at Best Buy can you get a third DVD, which is a 90 minute concert from Chicago, 1979. It's been edited down a bit from the original show, which was well over two hours long, but what's reportedly here is actually great - Quadrophenia material, "My Wife," "The Real Me," etc. Who fans really don't want to miss this.

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The Breakdown: The Beatles, Blackfield, The Who
Published: November 06, 2007
Type: News
Section: Music
Filed Under: Music: Classic Rock and Oldies, Music: Hard Rock, Music: News, Music: Rock, Music: Video
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#1 — November 17, 2007 @ 12:30PM — Mazzy

I have read several bloggers say that the standard edition is NOT widescreen. UNTRUE both editions of the disc are EXACTLY the same!!!

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