The Who by Mat Snow was an amazing book as it celebrates 50 years of The Who with fantastic stories, photos, memorabilia, and so much more. This book is a must have book if you are a Big fan or new to The Who.
Matt Snow is a famed music journalist who wrote this book and its his generation, Ssshhhh and mine! I loved it and bought back lovely memories of me and my mum singing to their songs whilst growing up in my family home.

The Who was formed in 1964 with lead singer Roger Daltrey, guitarist Pete Townshend, bassist John Entwhistle, and drummer Keith Moon, and continued on to become one of the best-selling bands of all time.

This book is an in-depth look of the Who's hit albums:
My Generation (1965),
A Quick One (1966),
The Who Sell Out (1967),
Tommy (1969), Who's Next (1971),
Quadrophenia (1973),
The Who By Numbers (1975), and so many more,

I can't recommend this book enough and a great gift for a fan for Christmas or a coming birthday etc.

Big Thank you to netgalley and Quarto Publishing Group – Chartwell Books, for my ARC.

As someone who's interested in old school music, including the 60's rocks and go on. I only familiar with several hits songs from the Who and know nothing apart from that. This book serves a great introductory of The Who, from each member, their history and legacy. I enjoyed the part where the writers really delve into the Pete's mind behind of every albums/singles. It's fascinating to see and understand what drives someone or a group to make such masterpieces, and all the factors that affecting them while crafting those masterpieces that are so authentic and will last for eternally.

For well over half a century The Who have been one of the most powerful and consistent forces in rock music. Mat Snow's biography of the band, originally published in 2017, tracks their path from cocky mod beat group to 'greatest live act in the world' who, despite the loss of two key members, are still an on-stage force to be reckoned with as the survivors approach their 80s.
Central to their success is the creative drive of songwriter Pete Townshend who may be the best rock songwriter of his generation - constantly inventive, enquiring and unbelievably ambitious. Snow charts his development through the early singles, the seminal concept albums Tommy, Quadrophenia and the recently revisited Lifehouse Project giving due credit to undervalued masterpieces like Sell Out and By Numbers. In the lavish illustrations we can watch singer Roger Daltrey morphing from an edgy and awkward youth into the enduring template for stadium filling rock icon. The writer addresses the band's internal struggles - drug and drink problems, unreliable management, the untimely loss of drummer Keith Moon and later bassist John Entwistle. He highlights the band's ability to overcome such problems in service of the music. He also offers a valuable depiction of the band's intimate connection with its early audience and its changing face as music moved from small clubs to huge festival audiences and the more recent support of charitable causes.
This book joins a wide shelf of books about The Who - some written by the band members themselves - and makes no attempt to be highly analytical, musically forensic or definitive. It offers a valuable overview of their career, successes and failures in the context of the changing culture and society of the last fifty years and ability to survive. Significantly for a band obsessed by image it offers abundant visual representations of them over the years which is as fascinating as the text which it accompanies.