Apr 03, 2015 By Austin Trunick

In early 1960s London, aspiring filmmakers Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp set out to make a documentary about the city’s rock and roll youth culture, and signed a little-known band named The High Numbers to appear as their subject. That band eventually changed their name to The Who, and became one of music’s most famous acts—but not without the help of the big-thinking, unorthodox management duo behind them. The new documentary, Lambert & Stamp, shines a spotlight on these two iconoclastic characters and the legacy they left on rock and roll music. Earlier this week, director James D. Cooper spoke with us about the documentary’s origins. More