The first official trailer for Lambert & Stamp, the recent documentary about the two men who discovered, mentored and managed The Who, has premiered at Yahoo.com.

The film tells the story of how a pair of aspiring filmmakers, Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp, helped guide The Who from popular local London club band to international superstardom after initially choosing the group as the focus of a planned movie about England’s flourishing music scene.

The two-minute preview features brief interview segments with Stamp and surviving Who members Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey, as well as various archival clips of the band performing during the early part of its career.

During one part of the trailer, Stamp, who died of cancer in 2012 at age 70, explains that he and Lambert had very little knowledge of the music business when they decided to manage The Who.  In another segment, he shares his first impressions of the band members, noting, “They weren’t handsome, there weren’t nice.  They were sort of like misfits.”

Townshend, meanwhile, is seen musing about what unlikely partners Lambert and Stamp made, while Daltrey declares, “Their ideas were fantastic, and that’s all I cared about.”

The trailer also includes a brief clip of Stamp expressing his frustration about how the band eventually wound up suing him and Stamp for mismanagement at time when The Who was among the biggest rock acts in the world.  Sadly, Lambert was only 45 when he died in 1981 of a brain hemorrhage after years of substance abuse.

Lambert & Stamp opens in New York and Los Angeles on April 3, and will move into additional theaters after that.  The Who also is scheduled to kick off the North American leg of its 50th anniversary tour that month, on April 15 in Tampa, Florida.

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