Kit Lambert

He knew, as he's written, when to say somebody's name in a sentence so they felt like they could, oh, this guy's listening to me.

Clearly Brian Epstein and Kit Lambert and all these guys are people who knew the exact same thing, who were stars who weren't in front of the camera, but stars anyway.

And part of this series to me falls into your affinity for people who are by charisma and sort of natural ability to read a room, are stars in nature's terms.

Oh, sure.

And I think The Merseys got that song so sad about us because they shared a manager.

I think they all had Kit Lambert as a manager in those days.

And so they ended up recording that as a single.

Whenever I'm

Pete Townsend on guitar, keyboards, and backing vocals, John Antwistle on bass and backing vocals, and Keith Moon, crazy animal on drums.

This was recorded at IBC Studios in London in 1966 and produced by Kit Lambert.

Now, Kit Lambert, he was the band's manager.

He was very instrumental in developing The Who.

He went on to produce... a ton of their 1960s work among a ton of other bands, probably more specifically the Who Sell Out and Tommy are two of his biggest works with this band.

And we left it in.

And our producer at the time, who was our manager, Kit Lambert, said, oh, you've got to kick that in.

That's going to sell the record.

And it did.

And, uh, and, and I, you know, that, that balance that the who could do being a, being like a pop group and all these singles were UK top 10 hits, uh, So they had this sort of solid basis in the UK, but were looking enviously at the States.

And they had a fascinating management duo team of Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp.

Kit Lambert, the son of a classical composer and academic, a fascinating person and very much Keith.

Sorry, not Keith.

Pete.

So they were being worked really hard.

This is all while on the Herman's Hermits tour.

And this was Kit Lambert really keeping them On top of things, you know, you can party where you want, but we've got records to make.

You know, we, we stopped getting hits.

I was looking for some new thing, and, uh, and I decided, uh, with Kit Lambert, who was then the producer of The Who, to go and look at opera and look at musicals and see whether rock and roll was capable of producing its opera, its song cycle, its cantata or whatever.

Pretentious stuff-

[laughs]

And, uh, I had come across them many times [laughs] and, and their managers.

There was Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp.

And I always got on very well for some strange reason with Keith Moon, who-

Yeah

Oh, there's good, there's a lot of that.

I won't give you all of them, but, uh, I, you know, one of the stories, and I'll go back to my brother that I loved, was, um, Arthur Baker, uh, uh, who did the song Fire, and he had this gay manager, one of the biggies, um, Kit Lambert, who had The Who, and he said...

He just rushed in and he said, "I just saw the craziest thing.

I just walked in on Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison, and they're making out." And Kit Lambert says, "What do you expect them to do? They're rock stars."

[laughs]

So yeah, there's that.