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Movie review: 'Lambert and Stamp' doc tells who was behind The Who By Ed Symkus More Content Now MailTribune.com By Ed Symkus More Content Now Posted Apr. 27, 2015 @ 8:19 am By Ed Symkus More Content Now Posted Apr. 27, 2015 @ 8:19 am » Social News p bs:newslist StartDate="20121121" EndDate="p bs:datecalc Months="3"" DateSort="1" UseObjects="1" ObjectClass="81" Taxonomywords="2325,665" ExactTaxonomyMatch="1" Image="1" Count="4" --> No one has yet made a movie about Brian Epstein, the entrepreneur-manager who shaped the Beatles into the biggest pop act the world will ever see. But someone’s now made a documentary about Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp. Never heard of them? Well, they also did a pretty good job turning an unknown ’60s British band into a phenomenon, one that — minus two of its original members — is still selling out concerts today. “Lambert & Stamp” tells what happened when these two opposites attracted, forming a business relationship that resulted in guiding the career of The Who. The two guys, both aspiring filmmakers in the early ’60s, met each other when they were assistant directors at London’s Shepperton Studios. They knew they weren’t going to make the cut as full-fledged directors there, so they decided to head out on their own. Their plan was to find a new rock band, manage them to success, and make something like a docudrama about the experience. The first problem was that they didn’t know anything about managing or about rock music. Then there was that business of being opposites. Kit Lambert came from the upper class. His dad, Constant Lambert, was a classical composer and conductor. Chris Stamp was working class. His dad was a tugboat captain. Lambert was gay. Stamp was popular with the ladies. Among the melange of terrific archival Who footage and scenes of both Lambert (who died in 1981) and Stamp, who were only a couple of years older than the band members, there’s also talking heads material that’s been shot over the past 10 years. So there’s Pete Townshend recalling that way back then he wondered if the two guys were lovers; there’s Roger Daltrey saying, “All I ever wanted to do was make this band successful”; and there’s Chris Stamp (who died in 2012) sharing both fond and not-so-fond memories of the wild times he and Lambert and the four bandmates went through. The film took so long to make because director-co-producer-cinematographer James D. Cooper kept running out of money. But in the end he found a way to tell the story of the two managers as well as the story of The Who, and has put it together in a way that neatly shows a character arc for everyone involved. The earliest footage, shot by Lambert, is of the Who, when they were still calling themselves The High Numbers, raucously playing at the Railway Hotel in 1964 for a crowd of dancing Mods. Thankfully, the film sets the record straight on the band’s name. Before they had one, at one point they were going to be called Nothing. At another, they were to be The Hair. The first proper name they went with was actually The Who, which was later changed to The High Numbers, then changed back to The Who. Although that old footage, and subsequent concert performances of the band over the years is great fun to watch, it’s the relaxed contemporary interviews that are more fascinating, mainly because Lambert and Stamp really didn’t know what they were doing, were kind of faking it. But they liked the band, and the band liked them, at least in the early years before hassles, as they do in these situations, settled in. Townshend remembers how the managers suggested that the band form a relationship with their audience. Daltrey recalls Lambert’s enthusiasm. Townshend, talking about his eccentric drummer Keith Moon, says, “Keith was not a drummer; he was doing something else.” There’s plenty of behind-the-scenes drama about the rock opera “Tommy” and how the album made them superstars, but the film, directed by Ken Russell in 1975, caused a rift between Lambert and the other five men. And there’s a great deal of unpleasantness surrounding the drug abuse that not only created problems, but resulted in some deaths. Yet the film also has some oddly funny moments, for instance an old segment when Lambert was being interviewed by a French TV station, and he answered every question in fluent French. That part is startling. It gets funny when, later on, as he’s being interviewed by a German TV station, he answers every question in fluent German. An interesting fellow, for sure. In the end, Lambert and Stamp never got to make their movie about a band, but at least now they’re both in one. Ed Symkus writes about movies for More Content Now. 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