Murray Lerner directs Roger Daltrey, Keith Moon and Pete Townshend in this concert movie of The Who’s appearance at the third (and their final) Isle of Wight festival.

3am and the zonked out hippies are pinging to Fiddlin’ About. What does that do to the brain? You can’t deny the power and the energy of the performance here. Full thrust can’t-give-a-fuck ROCK. Entwistle in a BDSM skeleton suit, Moon absolutely chewing his own face off while drumming. There’s tension when a skin breaks and Townshend keeps the show on the road with an ominous guitar solo. We get a truncated Tommy megamix. Yet the poor angles of the camera crew and the repetitive crowd shots only give you an obscured glance at what a overpowering experience this would have been.

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Perfect Double Bill: Quadrophenia (1979)

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