‘The Who: Album by Album’ is really aimed at aficionados of the band. My knowledge of the group is restricted to the singles and a passing interest in their rock operas so I wasn’t really engaged by the author’s track by track analysis of their albums. There’s certainly a lot of specialist detail befitting of an author who fronts a Who tribute band, but I would have preferred more background and contextual information. For a group that’s been going for over 60 years and whose members didn’t often seem to see eye to eye, there must be a wealth of ‘war stories’ that could have been incorporated to keep the casual reader engaged.