Its the definitive guide to their history featuring 50 new interviews.
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Pete Townshend wrote the intro, which you’re free to read in full right here.
Pete Townshend on a boat in the River Thames. London, April 1968.Chris Morphet/Redferns
Mark Wilkerson has brought into the present my early years at Ealing Art College in 1963.
That was when Andy Newman alias Thunderclap enchanted me with his piano playing.
They are all slightly brilliant too.
Musicians play, and when the hard work begins as it must, they sometimes fall by the wayside.
The saddest part of it all is that they dont exist today.
This book brings them back to life.