Inducted into the Rock n' Roll Hall Of Fame in 1990, the band has placed 27 top-forty singles in the United States and United Kingdom and earning 17 Top Ten albums, including the 1969 groundbreaking rock opera Tommy, 1971's pummeling Live At Leeds, 1973's Quadrophenia and 1978's Who Are You. The band is in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, the UK Music Hall Of Fame and has lifetime achievement awards from The Brits and The Grammys and in 2008 were the first rock band ever to be awarded the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors.Įmerging in the mid-1960s as a new and incendiary force in rock n' roll, their brash style and poignant storytelling garnered them one of music's most passionate followings, with the legendary foursome blazing a searing new template for rock, punk, and everything after. They have played over well over 2000 gigs in a career spanning over 50 years including venues such as Woodstock, Monterey Pop, Glastonbury (twice), Hyde Park (four times), The Isle Of Wight (three times), the closing ceremony of the 2012 Olympics, Desert Trip, Shea Stadium, The Superbowl half time show and Live Aid to name but a very few. The Who are one of the top three greatest rock legacies in music history with 9 US & 10 UK top ten albums and 14 UK top ten singles. Website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube LP Deluxe Red, White & Blue coloured vinyl edition includes Īll deluxe edition tracks previously unreleased. Roger Daltrey Vocal production Dave Eringa *Pete Townshend/Josh Hunsacker **Simon Townshend The songs on WHO cover a myriad of subjects including the Grenfell Tower fire, musical theft, spirituality, reincarnation, the power of memory and ‘an old rock star that has lost his marbles’. Singer Roger Daltrey rates it amongst their strongest “I think we’ve made our best album since Quadrophenia in 1973, Pete hasn’t lost it, he’s still a fabulous songwriter, and he’s still got that cutting edge”.Īfter their triumphant return to Wembley Stadium in the Summer, the band will be embarking on a UK tour featuring a full orchestra in Spring 2020, the dates are listed below.Īll songs written by Pete Townshend except Sir Peter designed and contributed a painting to the sleeve of The Who’s album Face Dances in 1981. The album cover has been created by famed pop artist, Sir Peter Blake who first met the band in 1964 at a taping of the legendary TV show Ready Steady Go. Singer Roger Daltrey and guitarist and songwriter Pete Townshend are joined on the album by long-time Who drummer Zak Starkey, bassist Pino Palladino along with contributions from Simon Townshend, Benmont Tench, drummers Carla Azar and Joey Waronker, bass player Gus Seyffert and Gordon Giltrap. Sardy (who has worked with Noel Gallagher, Oasis, LCD Soundsystem, Gorillaz) with vocal production by Dave Eringa (Manic Street Preachers, Roger Daltrey, Wilko Johnson). The eleven-track album was mostly recorded in London and Los Angeles during Spring and Summer 2019 and was co-produced by Pete Townshend & D. The deluxe CD of WHO also features ’THIS GUN WILL MISFIRE’ and ‘DANNY & HIS PONIES’ two tracks recorded and sung by Townshend during the sessions for the album. The former on the deluxe CD and the latter on the triple red, white and blue coloured vinyl edition. The bonus tracks for the deluxe versions of the album include two previously thought ‘lost’ tracks from 1966 ‘GOT NOTHING TO PROVE’ and ’SAND’. The album features the three tracks already released "BALL & CHAIN", "ALL THIS MUSIC MUST FADE" and "I DON’T WANNA GET WISE" along with 8 more brand new songs (11 on the deluxe CD and 9 on the deluxe vinyl). “A RESOUNDING MONUMENTAL, MODERN ALBUM FOR ALL WHO FANS” - THE EXPRESSĠ6 DECEMBER 2019 (TORONTO, ON) - The Who has today released their first new album in 13 years, the defiant and fiery WHO. "THE WHO’S DEFIANT POSTSCRIPT” - THE NEW YORK TIMES “THIS MIGHT BE THEIR LAST ALBUM, IF IT IS THEY’RE GOING OUT THE WAY THEY CAME: AS CUSSED, AND AWKWARD AND TROUBLE AS EVER” - THE GUARDIAN "A RETURN TO FORM, REMINDING US WHY THEY DESERVE THEIR PLACE IN ROCK N ROLL HISTORY - CLASH "ALL THESE YEARS ON THE WHO ARE NOT A SAFE PROPOSITION" - LONG LIVE VINYL “WHO STANDS UP ALONGSIDE THEIR CLASSICS” - NME “THEIR BEST SINCE WHO BY NUMBERS IN 1975” – THE TIMES “THEIR BEST SINCE QUADROPHENIA” - 9/10 UNCUT THE CRITICS AGREE THAT IT’S THEIR BEST SINCE THE '70S: DELUXE CD, TRIPLE RED, WHITE & BLUE VINYL AND PICTURE DISC ALBUM NOW
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