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1979 rockumentary

The Kids Are Alright
Directed by	Jeff Stein
Produced by	Tony Klinger Bill Curbishley
Starring	Roger Daltrey Pete Townshend John Entwistle Keith Moon
Cinematography	Anthony B. Richmond
Edited past	Ed Rothkowitz
Music by	The Who
Distributed by	New World Pictures
Release dates	xiv May 1979 (1979-05-fourteen) (Cannes Film Festival) 15 June 1979 (1979-06-15)
Running fourth dimension	101 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	$ii million

The Kids Are Alright is a 1979 rockumentary film about the English rock band the Who, including live performances, promotional films and interviews from 1964 to 1978. Information technology notably features the ring's last performance with long-term drummer Keith Moon, filmed at Shepperton Studios in May 1978, 3 months before his death.

Product [edit]

The film was primarily the work of American fan Jeff Stein who, despite having no previous feel in filmmaking, convinced the band to support the project and served equally the film's director. Stein had produced a book of photographs from the band's 1971 tour when he was merely 17. In 1975, he approached Pete Townshend, the Who's principal composer and lead guitarist, well-nigh compiling a collection of film clips to provide a historical reference for the ring's fans. Townshend initially rejected the thought, simply was persuaded past the group'due south manager, Neb Curbishley, to requite their cooperation. Townshend was also encouraged at Stein'due south suggestion that the film could "do the touring" for the ring, at a fourth dimension when the guitarist was having doubts regarding life on the road.

When Stein and his film editor, Ed Rothkowitz, previewed a 17-minute compilation of clips from their United states goggle box appearances to the ring and their wives, they could inappreciably believe the reaction. "Townshend was on the flooring, banging his head. He and Moon were hysterical. Daltrey's wife was laughing and so hard she knocked over the coffee table in the screening room. Their reaction was unbelievable. They loved it. That's when they were really convinced that the movie was worth doing."

Stein knew that many of the band's all-time performances and most memorable moments had either never been recorded or been lost, erased or discarded. For more than than two years, he collected film, television and fan film footage in U.k., the United States, Sweden, Deutschland, France, Australia, Norway and Finland, in some cases actually rescuing footage from the trash. Nevertheless, at that place were gaps in the depiction of the band'southward catalog and persona that required the shooting of new material. This began on xx July 1977 at Shepperton Studios in Middlesex, England, with a lighthearted rehearsal of old songs, including the Beach Boys song "Barbara Ann" at Stein'due south request. The movie crew and then spent five days chronicling the daily life of drummer Keith Moon at his Malibu, California, home, including his 31st altogether party. Finally, Stein attempted on several occasions to record performances of songs that were not covered past the archival footage, peculiarly "Baba O'Riley" and "Won't Get Fooled Over again". A special ane-off show at the Kilburn Country Theatre in Dec 1977, staged for the film, was considered too rough to use, so a second show, in front end of an invited audience took place at Shepperton Studios on 25 May 1978. Both songs were performed to a much better level, and were included in the film. "My Wife" from the Kilburn show was included on the soundtrack anthology but not on screen.

The sound editing was supervised by bassist John Entwistle, and, with the exception of a 1965 performance of "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere" where Entwistle had to supersede a missing bass rail and the footage of Moon smashing a drum kit—as the original 8mm footage was silent, Moon overdubbed pulsate sounds—most of the sound was accurate. Entwistle did fight for—and won—getting him and Pete to overdub their bankroll vocals on the Woodstock footage, because Entwistle accounted the original gig's backup vocals "dire". During the process of sound editing, on 7 September 1978, Keith Moon died. All of the band members except Townshend had seen a rough cut of the film simply a week earlier, and, afterwards Moon'southward death, they were adamant not to alter annihilation.

The pic premiered at the Cannes Motion-picture show Festival on 14 May 1979. The Who promoted the release of the picture with some live performances with their new drummer, former Small Faces and Faces drummer Kenney Jones.

A soundtrack album was released in June 1979, including some songs and performances from the picture.^[1] The album reached #26 in the United kingdom, and fared improve in the US, where information technology peaked at #viii on the Billboard album charts and went Platinum.

Contents [edit]

With the collection of material that he included, Stein attempted to create not a linear, chronological documentary simply "a celluloid rock 'n' roll revival coming together" and "a hair-raising rollercoaster ride" that was worthy of the band's reputation. The performances which incorporate the torso of the film are organized around a number of playful encounters by the band members with various variety and talk prove hosts, Pete Townshend'south playful relationship with his fans, admirers and critics, and the endless antics of Keith Moon.

Television shows and interviews [edit]

The film starts with a bang—literally—at the band'south only US diverseness show appearance. On 15 September 1967, the Who appeared on the CBS prove The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in Los Angeles following the cease of their first United states tour. They lip-synched the songs "I Can See For Miles" and "My Generation" and engaged host Tommy Smothers in some witty advertisement-libs before "My Generation". Afterwards the performance, the band began keen their instruments. Moon had packed an explosive charge in his bass drum which ready Townshend'due south hair on burn and rendered him temporarily deaf for 20 minutes, while cymbal shrapnel left a gash in Moon's arm. Townshend then took the acoustic guitar Smothers was holding and smashed it to bits on the basis.

Clips of a 1973 interview from London Weekend Television's Russell Harty Plus appear half dozen times throughout the film. While Harty delves into the groundwork of the members' lives, Moon once again steals the show as he rips off Townshend's shirt sleeve and and then promptly strips downward to his underwear.

I of the TV interviews included in the pic features Ken Russell, the manager of the film Tommy, who makes his marker with his exaggeratedly passionate plea: "I think that Townshend, the Who, Roger Daltrey, Entwistle, Moon could rise this land out of its decadent ambient state meliorate than Wilson or all of those crappy people could ever hope to achieve!"

An early performance from ABC Television set's Shindig! and 1 of merely two surviving tapes from the group'south many appearances on the British program Ready Steady Go!, both recorded in 1965, are included along with numerous interview clips from BBC Radio, too as generally blackness & white interviews, stage, and blue-screen performances (such equally of Tommy, Can You Hear Me?) on the music programme Trounce-Club, recorded at the Radio Bremen studios in Hamburg, Deutschland. Segments filmed in each of the band member's homes include several conversations between Moon and fellow drummer Ringo Starr.

Large concerts [edit]

Performances from 3 of the ring'south largest concert appearances bear witness to the ring's progression from the British modern scene to global superstardom:

• Their reluctant gig at the Woodstock Festival on 17 August 1969 was not an artistic success in the eyes of the band, but it helped Tommy become a critical blockbuster. Warner Bros. allowed Jeff Stein to look through their 400,000 feet of film from the three-day festival. Stein then reconstructed a "new" cut of the Who's song highlights (every bit opposed to the "dissever-screen" images from the original Woodstock film). He chose iii songs: "Sparks", "Pinball Wizard", and "Run across Me, Feel Me". He besides added a snippet of "My Generation" when Townshend smashed his guitar following a cursory excerpt of "Naked Eye".
• The group's 1975 The states tour reached its peak before a crowd of 75,962 at the Pontiac Silverdome on 6 December. The images in the moving picture were broadcast to large screens in the stadium so those in the far reaches could actually come across the ring members on phase. From this appears the "Roadrunner/My Generation Blues" medley. Notwithstanding, the soundtrack includes "Join Together", which precedes "Roadrunner".
• While it appears well-nigh the end of the film, the band's appearance at the Monterey Pop Festival on 18 June 1967 brought near their first big media exposure in the The states. In the film, the Who's Monterey Popular appearance cuts away to footage from past concerts depicting the band destroying their equipment earlier returning to the destructive finish of "My Generation". This functioning does not appear on the soundtrack.

Discarded footage [edit]

At least three chapters in the film resurrect performances that were discarded or idea to be lost:

• When the English National Opera allowed the band to play in the London Coliseum on fourteen December 1969, the testify was recorded for later release. The poor quality of the footage, all the same, fabricated information technology expendable to the group and Stein retrieved the footage from a trash dump. The band's rendition of "Immature Man Blues" is included in the film. The concert footage was later released in its entirety on disc two of The Who at Kilburn: 1977 DVD set.
• A promotional pic for the song "Happy Jack" was shot on 19 December 1966 for a BBC Television serial called Sound and Picture City but the bear witness was never aired.
• The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus was to be a boob tube special featuring a variety of rock bands and circus performers, just after the filming, the Rolling Stones felt their own performance was substandard and the projection was shelved. The film includes a rousing performance of the grouping'south kickoff "rock opera" – "A Quick 1 While He's Away"^[two] – shot on 11 Dec 1968. Originally, the clip's picture was cropped and bordered by flashing lights to recoup for the film's copy (and that version used different camera angles at times). Later the Stones' former characterization, ABKCO, released Rock and Scroll Circus on DVD, Stein extracted the Who's performance from the DVD and inserted it back in.

Moon'due south final performances [edit]

The motion-picture show incidentally became a sort of fourth dimension capsule for the band, since Keith Moon died only one week after he had seen the rough cutting of the picture with Roger Daltrey. Moon, according to Daltrey, was deeply shocked past how much he had inverse physically in just xv years, "from a young adept-looking boy to a spitting paradigm of Robert Newton". Afterward Moon'south death, the rough cut did not suffer a single change, since neither Stein nor the residual of the ring wanted to turn the film into an homage to Moon, but to celebrate his life and career with the Who.

Moon's concluding performances with the band were:

• The clip for "Who Are You", his last studio performance. Stein wanted to show the Who recording in the studio, fifty-fifty though the band had already finished recording the song. Stein planned to accept the band mime over the original recording, just the Who played it live at the Ramport Studios, London, on ix May 1978. The only playback tracks were Entwistle's bass guitar, the audio-visual guitar solo in the heart, the backing vocals and synthesizer runway.
• The show at Shepperton Studios, London, on 25 May 1978, his terminal live performance.

Song list [edit]

The song list beneath is taken from the Universal Music DVD booklet.^[3]

• "My Generation" (lip-sync) – The Smothers Brothers Comedy 60 minutes, 15 September 1967
• "I Tin't Explicate" (live) – Shindig!, Twickenham Film Studios, 3 August 1965
• "Baba O'Riley" (live in the studio) – Shepperton Film Studios, London, 25 May 1978
• "Shout and Shimmy" (live) – 5th National Jazz and Blues Festival, Surrey, 6 Baronial 1965
• "Beau Blues" (live) – London Coliseum, fourteen December 1969
• "Tommy Tin can You Hear Me" (lip-sync) – Trounce-Lodge, Radio Bremen Studios, Hamburg, Germany, 26 or 28 August 1969
• "Pinball Wizard" (live) – Woodstock festival, New York, 17 August 1969
• "See Me, Feel Me/Listening To You" (live) – Woodstock festival, New York, 17 August 1969
• "My Generation" conclusion plus the beginning of "Naked Center" (alive) – Woodstock festival, New York, 17 August 1969
• "Anyhow, Anyhow, Anywhere" (live) – Ready Steady Go!, 1 July 1965
• "Success Story" (studio version) – John's dwelling, Gloucestershire, v–6 January 1978
• "Substitute" (lip-sync) – Promotional video, Covent Garden, London, 21 March 1966
• "Pictures of Lily" (lip-sync) – Beat-Lodge, Fernsehstudio, Osterholz, Deutschland, 19 April 1967
• "Magic Bus" (lip-sync) – Crush-Club, Radio Bremen Studios, Bremen, Germany, 7 October 1968
• "Happy Jack" (studio version) – Promotional motion-picture show, Caroline Firm, Mayfair, London, 19 December 1966
• "A Quick One, While He's Away" (live) – The Rolling Stones Rock and Whorl Circus pic, Stonebridge Park Studios, Wembley, London, 10 December 1968
• "Cobwebs and Strange" (studio version) – Promotional video for "Call Me Lightning", Hollywood, California, 27 February 1968
• "Sparks" (live) – Woodstock festival, New York, 17 August 1969
• "Barbara Ann" (live in the studio) – Shepperton Film Studios, Middlesex, 21 July 1977
• "Roadrunner/My Generation Blues" (alive) – Pontiac Silverdome, Pontiac, Michigan, half dozen December 1975
• "Who Are You" (live in the studio) – Promotional video, Rampart Studios, Battersea, London, 9 May 1978
• "My Generation" including musical instrument keen from other performances (live) – Monterey Popular Festival, Monterey, eighteen June 1967
• "Won't Get Fooled Again" (alive) – Shepperton Film Studios, London, 25 May 1978
• "Long Alive Rock" (studio version) – closing credits with Who farewells from various performances
• "The Kids Are Alright" (studio version) – closing credits

DVD edition [edit]

For many years the motion picture was released on VHS in an edited 90-minute form, extracted from a TV circulate copy made in the 1980s, which itself was a program of the RCA SelectaVision CED version, a format popular in the belatedly 70s, early on 80s. Several scenes were removed and the audio had several pitch bug and dropouts, due to different film stocks and original motion picture regions.^{[ commendation needed ]}

In 2003, a DVD edition of the pic was released in an expanded parcel with booklet and slipcase designed past Richard Evans.^[4] The film had been transferred from the restored 35mm interpositive^[v] and the audio was extensively restored. In addition to the original film, with English subtitles, on-screen liner notes, commentary with Jeff Stein and DVD producer John Albarian, and a 28-page booklet, the DVD contained a bonus disc with over three hours of boosted materials:

• "Come across My Style": Q&A with director Jeff Stein
• "Behind Blue Eyes": Q&A with Roger Daltrey
• "Miracle Cure": Documentary on the restoration of The Kids Are Alright
• "Getting in Tune": Audio comparison (old vs new)
• "Play a joke on of the Light": Video comparison (old vs new)
• "The Who's London": A tour of Who locations in London
• "The Ox": Isolated tracks of John Entwistle for "Baba O'Riley" and "Won't Get Fooled Again"
• "Anytime You Want Me": Multi-angle feature for "Baba O'Riley" and "Won't Go Fooled Again"
• "Pure and Easy": Trivia game. The prize: A rare radio trailer of Ringo Starr promoting The Kids Are Alright
• "Information technology's Hard": Trivia game. The prize: A slide show to the "Who Are Y'all" 5.1 studio mix

The DVD was released past Pioneer Habitation Entertainment. The digitally-restored version of the film was premiered at the New York Movie Festival in October 2003 with Daltrey, Lewis, Stein and Albarian in attendance.

References [edit]

1. ^ "The Kids Are Alright".
2. ^ Lifton, Dave. "Rolling Stones to Release 'Rock and Roll Circus' Box Set". Ultimate Archetype Rock.
3. ^ Stein, Jeff (director) (2010). The Kids are Alright (Motion motion-picture show). Universal Music Grouping.
4. ^ "The Kids Are Alright (DVD)". Motion-picture show.
5. ^ "Archived re-create". Archived from the original on 17 December 2003. Retrieved 9 September 2007. {{cite spider web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

Sources [edit]

• Liner notes from The Kids Are Alright (Special Edition) (1979) DVD, Pioneer Entertainment (USA), Inc., 2003
• "Post Production Log 24-hour interval 1". Retrieved 9 September 2007.

External links [edit]

• The Kids Are Alright archived from thewho.internet – includes photos and mp3 links
• The Kids Are Alright at IMDb
• Goggle box Guide.com Review

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