Exclusive pictures of Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert shine light on The Who’s meteoric rise to fame

 
Aspiring directors: Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp
Emma Powell11 May 2015
The Weekender

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Pictures of Kit Lambert snapping a director's clapper board as Roger Daltrey poses on stage, and Pete Townshend, Keith Moon and John Entwistle taking a break are part of a collection which has been released ahead of rockumentary, Lambert & Stamp.

Directed by James D. Cooper, the film follows aspiring film makers Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert who set out to make a low budget film before stumbling across a band called High Numbers – who they later renamed The Who and mentored to meteoric fame.

The film documents the creative partnership and the band’s rise through candid conversations with remaining members Townshend and Daltrey, and rare footage from the early 1960s, including The Who's 1967 European tour.

In footage, Stamp - who died in 2012 - can be seen talking about the moment he and Lambert first met the band, who he said "weren’t handsome they weren’t nice they were like misfits”.

The Who, in pictures

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Other interviews with Terence Stamp, Heather Daltrey and Richard Barnes shed light on the partnership between two men who “had no idea what they did in the music business or what the work was about”.


But despite the fact that "there were no two guys on the planet who knew less about rock than these two," Daltrey once paid tribute to the pair and thanked them for the band's success.

"The Who would never have been successful without two special people, Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp," he said.

Lambert & Stamp is in cinemas from Friday, May 15.

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