What’s appealing about The Ox is that The Who’s bassist wasn’t a truly great rock star. By focusing on Entwistle...Rees is able to tell the story of The Who from the side, as it were. He look at Daltrey and Townshend from a slant, and yet without distorting the picture, including the drugs, affairs, womanizing, marriages, divorces, and the addiction to spending money.

As it turns out, Entwistle was just as fascinating as his more voluble bandmates. The writing here is prosaic and lacking in flourish, but suited to its subject. Entwistle was the quintessential ordinary man living an extraordinary life.

... this biography feels desperately passe.

Solidly researched and written, and fleshed out with the recollections of Entwistle's son, Chris, this biography of one of the genre's finest bass players and most intriguing personalities will strike a chord with serious fans of classic rock..

Entwistle’s unfinished memoir, Rees begins with a workmanlike march through the band’s early history in the late 1960s, but things liven up as the band gains massive popularity with its early 1970s American tours.