Lambert and Stamp were assistant film directors, frustrated by not ascending to the director's chair, but full of wild ideas. Lambert and Stamp had zero knowledge of the music business, but they were a captivating duo. By focusing on the managers — the band's so-called fifth and sixth members, "the shell of the egg" as singer Roger Daltrey says — the movie takes a wider view, capturing the composite nature of creative invention and cultural change. (Daltrey, Townshend says in a way that could only be cutting, was the only "conventional" figure of the bunch.) But the film, perhaps inevitably, subsides in the second half, as the familiar fallout of fame — drugs, death, disputes over a film of the rock opera "Tommy" — wrecks the relationships. "[...] anyhow, anywhere I choose," was the anthem The Who sang, and their managers (who signed Jimi Hendrix to a record deal before actually having a record label) were perfect representatives of the song. Lambert & Stamp," a Sony Pictures Classics release, is rated R by the Motion Picture Association of America for "language, some drug content and brief nudity.
Review: In 'lambert & Stamp,' The Backstage Story Of The Who
By JAKE COYLE, AP Film Writer, Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Movies
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