The Who: The Kids Are Alright (Polydor)
Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 9 June 1979
"The whole thing about rock and roll dynamism, in many ways, is the fact that if it does slow down, if it does start to review itself, if it takes any sort of perspective on life at all, it falls. As soon as someone makes any kind of comment, for example, musically on something they've done before, they collapse... "
–Pete Townshend, Rolling Stone, 1968.
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