Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Music news The Who's Amazing Journey
Posted by Mosi Reeves on Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 9:55 PM
As the snowflakes flutter upon the city, my thoughts turn to a favorite documentary from recent months: Amazing Journey: The Story of the Who.
Imaginatively, the two-and-a-half-hour Amazing Journey splits the Who's entire career into a double LP, from its origins as a rhythm-and-blues cover band in early '60s England to its never-ending reunion tours in the '90s and today, with each track on the vinyl marking a separate section of its history. I've heard many of the band's classics -- who doesn't own a copy of Who's Next and Live at Leeds? But I never realized how many great songs the group had until seeing the film, which is impressively directed by Murray Lerner (best-known for Festival, a 1967 Oscar-nominated documentary about the Newport Folk Festival).
VH-1 Classic showed Amazing Journey commercial-free last November, just before it was released on DVD. It has continued to show it occasionally, and I've watched it several times since. I tried to find out when the channel would show it again, but the site was too difficult to navigate. So you'll just have to look out for it, I guess. In the meantime, you can view a trailer on the Amazing Journey website.
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