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Bookmark this pageThe Kids Are Alright (1978)
Director: Jeff Stein
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From Time Out Film Guide
That rare animal, a rock documentary which entertains and informs in equal quantities, The Kids Are Alright is a movie that comes over as a celebration of rock'n'roll itself as much as of one of its more masterful exponents. Covering The Who's 'turbulent' history from the days of sweaty Shepherd's Bush cellars to the super-technicalities required for the recording of 'Who Are You' (mercifully stopping before Moon's death), the film captures some of the most powerful rock music of the last two decades. Patching together snippets of hilarious interviews (witness the anarchic terror Moon wreaks on a panic-stricken Russell Harty) with footage of live gigs (culminating in a laser-streaked finale), plus a few fantasy sequences, the film will fascinate the under-twenties and delight the over-thirties.Author: FL
Cast & crew
Director: Jeff Stein
Producer: Bill Curbishley, Anthony Klinger
Cast: The Who, Tom Smothers, Jimmy O'Neil, Russell Harty, Melvyn Bragg, Ringo Starr, Steve Martin full cast
Genre(s): Documentaries
Duration: 101 mins
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