The Kids Are Alright (film)

The Kids Are Alright is a rockumentaryfilm about the British rock band The Who, including live performances, promotional films and interviews in the period between 1965 and 1978. The film is considered as one of the best rockumentaires ever made.



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[hide] *Production 1  ==Production[ Edit] == The film was primarily the work of American fan Jeff Stein who, despite the fact that he had no experience with making movies, convinced the band to support his project and served since then as Director of the film. Stein had a book with pictures of the tour by The Who from 1970 published when he was just seventeen years old. In 1975, he approached Pete Townshend, the primary songwriter and lead guitarist, about compiling a collection of small movies to a historical reference for the fans. Townshend initially rejected the idea, but was by Bill Curbishley, the manager of the band, persuaded to cooperate to give to the project.
 * 2 Content
 * 2.1 television shows and interviews
 * 2.2 Large concerts
 * 2.3 discarded equipment
 * 3 Dvd Edition
 * 4 Credits
 * 5 Statements
 * 6 References
 * 7 external links

When Stein and his film editor Ed Rothkowitz and their partners soon a seventeen-minute compilation of clips from their American television appearances showed, they could hardly believe their reactions. "Townshend lay with his head on the floor store. He and Moon were hysterical. Daltrey's wife laughed so hard that they knocked over the coffee table in the screening room. Their reaction was unbelievable. They loved it. At that time they were completely convinced of the fact that the film would be worth it. "

Stein knew that many of the recordings of the best gigs of the band either lost or never recorded, or were damaged. More than two years, he collected film, television and amateur video in England, the United States, Germany, France, Australia, Sweden, Norway and Finland, where he had to fish in some cases material from the Recycle Bin.Nevertheless, occasionally failed video material for certain parts of the repertoire of the band and the portrayal of the band members, which was filled by recording new material. So was there on Steins request on 20 July 1977 started recording of the song "Barbara Ann" at Shepperton Studios in Middlesex, England. The film crew remained five days in Malibu, California to the personal life of Keith Moon to portray, including a recording of his 31-th anniversary. Finally, a number of attempts to "Stein undertookBaba O'Riley" and "Won't Get Fooled Again" to record. The final shots were shot on 25 may 1978.

Mixing the sound for the film was accompanied by bassist John Entwistle and all music recordings, with an exception of some performances from 1965 for which he had to replace the missing bassporen, were authentic.As you adjust the sound, Keith Moon died on 7 september 1978. All band members on Townshend had, however, already a week earlier after a rough version of the film and they were after Magnus death determined to change nothing to the film.

The film premiered on 13 may 1979 in during the Cannes Film festival premiere.

In June 1979, a soundtrack album released as, with a number of songs and performances from the movie. The album The Kids Are Alright came to number 26 in the UK, but fared better in the us, where it peaked at number 8 in the Billboard album charts and received a Platinum status. ==Content[ Edit] == The Kids Are Alright premiered in the United States went on 15 June 1979, at the same time as the disaster film era that films like Earthquake, The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno. Because of the fact that the film was surrounded by this disaster films and the devastating nature of the band, got the original issue the title "the world's first rock 'n' roll disaster movie" (the world's first rock 'n' roll disaster film) with it.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">With the material he collected had tried to make a chronological Stein not documentary, but a "rock and roll revival meeting on film" and a "roller coaster ride that will leave your hair do upright". The performances that the thread of the film are draped to some naughty encounters between the band members and different talk showPresenters, Pete Townshend's informal relationship with his fans, admirers and critics and the endless antics of Keith Moon. ===Television shows and interviews<span class="mw-editsection" len="369" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film opens with a stunner — literally! — at the only American appearance in a variety. On september 15, 1967 was The Who featured in the CBS-show The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour in Los Angeles at the end of their tour of the United States. They lip-synched the songs "I Can See For Miles" and "My Generation" and did host Tommy Smothers by refusing to follow the script be amazed at the talk before "My Generation".Moon made the biggest impression when its destructive nature of his stage-'alter ego' on a highlight came. After the performance of "My Generation", the band began the destruction of their own instruments. Moon had his bass drum jam packed with explosives, which he let go off. The amount of explosive turned out to be big, because Townshend's hair on fire and stood by the force of the explosives he was temporarily deaf for twenty minutes. Moon was also hit by shards of the cymbals, that a cut on his left arm. Townshend grabbed the acoustic guitar that Smothers started and smashed it into pieces on the ground. Smothers was completely frustrated, but the audience thought the whole gig was put in scene. Clips from London Weekend television's Russell Harty Plus (1973) six times in the movie. While Harty in the background of the biographies of the band members dive, steals the show again by Townshends Moon sleeve of his shirt to tear off and to strip down to his underwear.

<p lang="en" len="714" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">One of the TV interviews included Ken Russell, the Director of the film Tommy, who makes his point with an overly passionate speech: "I think that Townshend, The Who, Roger Daltrey, Entwistle, Moon better than Wilson or any of those other crappy people be able to pull this country out of its decadent atmosphere than they ever hoped to reach!"

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">An early appearance in the ABCprogram Shindig! and one of the only two tires that have remained about the program Ready, Steady, Go!, both of which were recorded in 1965, were included in the film, as well as a number of interviews with BBC Radio and Radio Bremen of Hamburg. Segments that are filmed in the apartments of all band members also include several conversations between Moon and fellowdrummer and friendRingo Starr. ===Major concerts<span class="mw-editsection" len="349" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p lang="en" len="340" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Performances during three of the bands biggest concerts serve as witnesses to show how the band grew from the British mod scene to the global stardom:

===Discarded equipment<span class="mw-editsection" len="353" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p lang="en" len="84" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">At least three chapters in the film are appearances that discarded or missing were:
 * Their dreadful performance at Woodstock Music and Art Fair on 17 August 1969 was not an artistic success in the eyes of the band, but it helped to the Tommy rock opera to make a critical blockbuster. The four clips that let in to see the movie are, inter alia, three songs from Tommy and "My Generation", with the public that his guitar for dessert Townshend spite your face.
 * The 1975 US tour of the band reached its peak with a crowd of 75,962 people in the Pontiac Silverdome on 6 december. The video will be shown in the film was then via large screens in the stadium so that the people who were actually at the back of the band members on stage could see stand.
 * Although it was only can be seen towards the end of the film, brought the performance at the Monterey International Pop Festival on June 18, 1967 the band the first major media interest in the United States. In the film, the performance at Monterey Pop truncated and the film continues with material of other concerts where The Who destroys their equipment, for the end of "My Generation".

==Dvd Edition<span class="mw-editsection" len="344" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2003, a dvd version of the film released. The film was restored from the 35 mm interpositief and the audio was extensively restored. As an addition to the original film was released a Deluxe Edition a consists of the original movie and a bonus disc. To this is three hours of extra material with a new interview with Roger Daltrey, an audio commentary track with Associate Producer Martin Lewis and one with Lewis, Jeff Stein and producer John Alberian. The dvd was released by Pioneer Home Entertainment and premiered during the New York Film Festival in October 2003. These were among other Daltrey, Lewis, Stein and Alberian present. ==Credits<span class="mw-editsection" len="341" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Pronunciations<span class="mw-editsection" len="344" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * When the English National Opera the band to play in the London Coliseum on 14 december 1969, the show was recorded for a later issue. The poor quality of the material, however, made it expendable for the Group and Jeff Stein sped down it on a mountain of waste. The rendition of "Young Man Blues" was included in the film.
 * A promotional film of the song "Happy Jack" was recorded on 19 december 1966 for the BBC Television series called Sound and Picture Citybut the show never went in the air.
 * The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus would be a television program in which several well-known British bands and circus performers would be to see, followed by a tour through the United Kingdom. When the Stones, however, noticed that their stage performances were not to be compared with those of The Who, was the broadcast and the tour called off. In 2004 the program was released on film. The Who is to hear and see with their first rock opera A Quick One, While he's Away, that on 10 december 1968 was recorded.
 * Main Characters: Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle, Keith Moon, Pete Townshend
 * Guest Roles Tommy Smothers, Jimmy O'Neill, Russell Harty, Melvyn Bragg, Ringo Starr, Mary Ann Zabresky, Michael Lai, Barry Fantoni, Jeremy Paxman, Bob Pridden, Keith Richards, Garry McDonald (as Norman Gunston), Steve Martin, Rick Danko (which is not present in the film, but in the eindcredits appears), Ken Russell
 * Executive Producer: Sydney Rose
 * Produced by: Bill Curbishley, Tony Klinger
 * Associate Producers: Jeff Stein, Ed Rothkowitz, The Who
 * Edited by: Ed Rothkowitz
 * Musical Director: John Entwistle
 * Written and directed by: Jeff Stein
 * "Most rock films are pretentious. They are made with the sole purpose of Robert Plant 's large penis to make it seem. This is quite the opposite. In the first half hour we seem to just four complete idiots! " – Roger Daltrey