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He also wisely concentrates on their peak years, before pop solidified as rock, when the Who were the closest thing to pop art British music has ever produced.' - Bob Stanley, founding member of St Etienne and author of \u003ci\u003eYeah Yeah Yeah: The Story of Modern Pop\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'With impressive eloquence, \u003ci\u003eA Band with Built-in Hate\u003c\/i\u003e situates '60s Britain's most volatile and incendiary group at the heart of pop's wild vortex, its sonic assaults on the class system and the cultural status quo. Stanfield digs brilliantly into the Who's transgressions, their upending of entertainment, their transmuting of pop music into art-rock and proto-punk. 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