The Who: Tackling The Most Serious Project Of Their Lives
Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 9 November 1968
"THAT'S A nasty letter. What's all that about?" inquired a menacing, dramatically dressed Roger Daltrey, clutching a copy of the MM and noting a communication by reader D. Hutchison of Edinburgh expressing the opinion the Who had "sold out" and the "Yanks can have 'em."
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