The Kids Are Alright

I've been reading Roger Daltrey's bio "Thanks a lot Mr. Kibblewite?' I keep doing a book on tape in my head with his voice from all the WHO documentaries I've watched over the years. This particular tome seems strongly ghost written. You can always tell by the childhood chapter. This stock approach was first reveled in Mick Foley's "Foley is Good". If you aren't familiar with Mick, he is the only wrestler to actually write his own books and they are great. He hilariously detailed how he was initially placed with a ghost writer and how they encouraged him to approach the intro childhood story. It's a trick you can't unseen once you know it. 

"The Kids are alright" just so happened to be on this weekend. We loved it upon original release. In those pre-Youtube days how would you get to see any of those rare clips? It's very much a rabbit hole of WHO history. Keith Moon looks even more tragic all these years later. I still few the WHO as largely a masculine phenom but my daughters friend argued otherwise.. Maybe since it's all classic rock to the younger generation it's divorced from it's teenage male roots. 

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