Dear Boy: The Life Of Keith Moon (2010) - Plot & Excerpts
If it had been a frustrating year for the Who, it had been difficult for many of their contemporaries also: the Yardbirds had split, Steve Marriott was about to break up the Small Faces, and the Kinks had found themselves rebuffed by the British record-buying public even more forcibly than had the Who. The Beatles released just two singles in 1968, waiting until December to deliver an album (the legendary eponymous double) that reaffirmed both their popularity and creativity. Yet even they were showing signs of internal conflict, John Lennon’s relationship with Japanese artist Yoko Ono driving a wedge between the four lads’ formerly impenetrable camaraderie. It was an ideal moment for the Rolling Stones, upon release of their Beggars Banquet album at the end of the year, to declare themselves the world’s premier rock group, to which end they turned the Wembley studios into a big top replete with trapeze artists, clowns and fire-eaters, inviting the Who, Jethro Tuli, Taj Mahal and Marianne Faithfull to play one song each before closing out with a mini-Stones concert.
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