A Band with Built-In Hate

The Who made the simple things complicated and the complicated simple; they put pop and art together in a set of coupling that rode the lines between authenticity and artifice, self-determination and co-option, the low and the high, the intolerant and the permissive. They set up a unique open dialogue between fan and star, which in their youthful and knowing, tender and violent way rewrote the language of pop. They did this with attitude and style. Book jacket.