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A Story of the Excitement of Discovery
From an Amazon User

"At the risk of being seen as biased I must recommend this little gem to any serious Who fans.
I have been a devotee of The Who for just about all of my conscious life, you know, from the age of 12 or thereabout. I confess I have known the author for a very long time; that is not the point.What makes this short book so valuable is that it tells the tale of how a few schoolkids understood that their enthusiasm mattered enough to create!
Anyone expecting another hackwork with a load of photo's they have seen before or some rehashed history can be reassured. This is a unique tale from a time before the corporate colonization of popular culture, when there was an 'underground', when being a fan counted for something more than being an email address on a marketeers sucker list.
Interspersed are personal accounts of how this all ended with the (post Woodstock,) ' Stadium Rock ' sham that robbed the music-not only The Who's- of much of it's validity. As is pointed out, maybe obliquely, here is a story of the excitement of discovery.
For the price of a keyfob or some other piece of junk from THEWHOSTORE, or whatever it calls itself why not learn something?"

A Fun Little-Train-That-Could Tale Born Out of a Mixture of Youthful Why-Not Naïveté and Emerging Adult Perseverance

From an Amazon User

"If you are a Who fan and are looking for a book to read about the Who, you know that there are hundreds of books already written about them. How could there be anything new to write? But in When Stars Were in Reach - The Who at Union Catholic High School - November 29, 1967, author Michael Rosenbloom has managed to write a new and unique book about an intriguing and true story of how the students of a small Catholic high school in New Jersey convinced their school's administration to allow them to book a concert by one of the most high energy bands in rock history, the Who, to perform in their high school gym.
Rosenbloom, who neither attended the school nor the 1967 concert, did extensive research to unravel the tale, painstakingly locating and interviewing those students, faculty, and the promoter who were there 46 years ago. Rosenbloom carefully weighed the 40+ year old and sometimes conflicting memories and weaved them into an interesting and insightful story. It is a fun little-train-that-could tale born out of a mixture of youthful why-not naïveté and emerging adult perseverance. This book is an entertaining read. I couldn't put it down and finished it in one sitting. It has great photos of the actual concert with basketball net and all."

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