Kit Lambert (May 11, 1935 – April 7, 1981) was a record producer and the manager for The Who. He was born as Christopher Sebastian Lambert and was the son of noted composer, Constant Lambert. May 11 is the 131st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (132nd in leap years). ... 1935 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). ... 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... In the music industry, record producer designates a person responsible for completing a master recording so that it is fit for release. ... Management (from Old French ménagement the art of conducting, directing, from Latin manu agere to lead by the hand) characterises the process of leading and directing all or part of an organization, often a business, through the deployment and manipulation of resources (human, financial, material, intellectual or intangible). ... The Who in 1968. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... Constant Leonard Lambert, ( August 23, 1905 – August 21, 1951) was a British composer and conductor. ...

Lambert served in the British Army after studying at Oxford University. After his service, he returned to Britain and became assistant director for the films The Guns of Navarone and From Russia With Love. He and fellow director Chris Stamp decided to make a film that would feature an unknown pop group; the group that they chose was The High Numbers, who later became The Who. Lambert eventually abandoned the film and became The Who's manager. He replaced Shel Talmy as the group's producer in 1966. The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British military. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... The Guns of Navarone is a 1957 novel of World War II by UK thriller writer Alistair MacLean that was made into a US film in 1961. ... A 2002 Penguin Books paperback edition For the video game see From Russia With Love From Russia With Love, published in 1957, is the fifth James Bond novel written by Ian Fleming. ... Depending on context, pop music is either an abbreviation of popular music or, more recently, a term for a sub-genre of it. ... The Who in 1968. ... Shel Talmy (born August 11, 1940 in Chicago, Illinois, United States) is a noted record producer. ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ...

Lambert convinced Pete Townshend to move away from simple songs on their earlier albums and to move on to more mature fare. This led to The Who to progress from the more quirky sound of The Who Sell Out to the deeper themes of Tommy. Pete Townshend, guitarist and songwriter, in 1985. ... The Who Sell Out (See 1967 in music) is The Whos third album. ... Tommy (1969) is one of The Whos two full-scale rock operas, and the first musical work explicitly billed as a rock opera. ...

The Who's success made Lambert slowly move away from the group. He was replaced as their producer in 1975. He went on to produce some early punk bands, but his drug abuse led to little success in the late 1970s. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage after falling down the stairs of his mother's home in 1981. 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... Drug abuse has a wide range of definitions, all of them suggesting disapproval at the use or overuse of a drug for a nontherapeutic effect 1. ... This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1970s. ... A cerebral hemorrhage is bleeding directly into the brain parenchyma (tissue) itself, otherwise known as hemorrhagic stroke. ...

References

• Allmusic.com Kit Lambert biography. Accessed on March 5, 2005.
• The Knitting Circle: Kit Lambert. Accessed on March 5, 2005.