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Maximum R&B - The Birth of The Who - Episode 2

This year The Who celebrate the 50th anniversary of their first UK single ‘I Can't Explain’ and their seminal track ‘My Generation’

This year The Who celebrate the 50th anniversary of their first UK single ‘I Can't Explain’ and their seminal track ‘My Generation’ (as well as their debut album) and mark it with the release of career spanning box set, a huge show in Hyde Park in July and headline slot at Glastonbury.

To recognise this momentous year, this new two-part documentary sees guitarist and songwriter Pete Townshend and lead singer Roger Daltrey look back to the very start of the band. Recalling how The Who’s obsession with the music of Chicago, Memphis and Mississippi shaped their songwriting and explaining how these distinctively American songs, often born of social unrest and racial segregation, had parallels in the lives of post-war urban British kids, and in the case of The Who, earned them the now-legendary description ‘Maximum R&B’

Hosted by Matt Everitt and featuring exclusive contributions from Noel Gallagher, Paul Weller, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Graham Coxon from Blur, Wilko Johnson, Supergrass’ Gaz Combes, Mark King from Level 42, Richard Barnes, Kaiser Chief Ricky Wilson, Johnny Marr and Sir Paul McCartney plus exclusive previously unreleased music from the band live in 1964.

1 hour

Last on

Wed 3 Jul 2024 02:00

Music Played

  • The Who

    Leaving Here (Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Saturday Club Session, 24 May 1965)

  • The Who

    Dancing In The Street (Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Saturday Club Session, 15 Mar 1966)

  • The Who

    So Sad About Us

  • The Who

    I'm A Boy

    • Polydor.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 28 Jun 2015 13:00
  • Wed 3 Jul 2024 02:00