 Artist: Who: mp3 download Genre(s): Rock Who's discography:  Magic Bus Year: 2007 Tracks: 11 Few bands in the history of rock & seethe were riddled with as many contradictions as the Who. All four members had wildly different personalities, as their notoriously intense live performances demonstrated. The pigeonholing was a whirlwind of activity, as the wild Keith Moon fell over his drum kit and Pete Townshend leaped into the melodic line with his guitar, spinning his correct hand in enlarged windmills. Vocalist Roger Daltrey strutted crosswise the microscope stage with a thuggish imperil, as bassist John Entwistle stood unsounded, operation as the eye of the hurricane. These diverging personalities frequently clashed, merely these frictions as well resulted in a decade's worth of noteworthy music -- it took some basketball team eld to find their interview, but at the shadow goal of the 1960s they suddenly achieved a story of popularity rivaling the Rolling Stones, both as a live act and in album gross revenue. As one of the key figures of the British Invasion and the mod motion of the mid-'60s, the Who were a dynamical and undeniably herculean sonic effect. They oftentimes sounded like they were exploding formal rock and R&B structures with Townshend's fierce guitar chords, Entwistle's overactive basslines, and Moon's vigorous, apparently chaotic drumming. Unlike to the highest degree rock bands, the Who based their rhythm on Townshend's guitar, letting Moon and Entwistle extemporise wildly over his foundation, spell Daltrey belted out his vocals. This was the sound the Who thrived on in concert, only on record they were a different proposition, as Townshend pushed the chemical group toward new sonic territory. He before long became regarded as one of the finest British songwriters of his geological era, rivaling John Lennon and Paul McCartney of the Beatles and Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones, as songs like "The Kids Are Alright" and "My Generation" became teenaged anthems, and his rock opera, Tommy, earned him esteem from mainstream music critics. Townshend continually pushed the band toward more ambitious territory, incorporating whiteness dissonance, drink down artistic production, and conceptual extended musical pieces into the group's style. The rest of the Who, specially Entwistle and Daltrey, weren't e'er aegir to follow him in his musical explorations, specially after the success of his first tilt opera, Tommy. Instead, they wanted to stick to their hard rock roots, playing savagely loud, macho euphony rather of Townshend's coarse-textured song suites and vulnerable pop songs. Eventually, this resulted in the chemical group abandoning their adventurous spirit in the mid-'70s, as they settled into their role as arena bikers. The Who continued on this way of life even after the death of Moon in 1978, and regular afterwards they disbanded in the early '80s, as they reunited numerous multiplication in the belated '80s and '90s to tour America. The group's stern pursual of the dollar was largely imputable to Entwistle and Daltrey, wHO never establish successful solo careers, simply it had the unfortunate position effect of tarnishing their reputation for many longtime fans. However, there's little contestation that at their elevation the Who were one of the most advanced and herculean bands in rock history. Townshend and Entwistle met patch attention high school in the Shepherd's Bush area of London. In their early teens, they played in a Dixieland band together, with Entwistle playing trumpet and Townshend playing banjo. By the early '60s, the pair had formed a rock & wheel band, merely Entwistle asleep in 1962 to play in the Detours, a hard-edged rock candy & roll dance orchestra featuring a sheet metal doer named Roger Daltrey on spark advance guitar (and trombone!). By the closing of the year, Townshend had coupled as a calendar method guitarist, and in 1963 Daltrey gave up his guitar chores -- a aftermath of his day job as a alloy worker -- and became the group's lead vocaliser after Colin Dawson (followed in brief by some other isaac Merrit Singer named Gabby, world Health Organization didn't last) left the band. The group's legal evolved apace during this period, and was especially influenced not only by American acts of the Apostles such as James Brown, Booker T. & the MG's, and Eddie Cochran -- each of whom had songs delineated in the group's repertory -- but likewise unrivaled greco-Roman British act, Johnny Kidd & the Pirates, with whom they divided a flier. Johnny Kidd (real name Frederick Heath) had been in concert since the recent '50s, and rocked the British charts with an original called "Shakin' All Over" (which Townshend and company as well added to their set heel); they'd built their reputation on their fierce renditions of American-style R&B, which relied heavy on a lean single guitar/bass/drums approach, with the single guitar player -- very unusual in England during this period in any recording act -- acting both the rhythm and principal parts. Hearing and eyesight their presentation up close down patch acting supporting to them, Townshend was impressed and completed that he took course to that approach, and the Detours were depressed to a single guitar in short order. A mention change as well followed, as the group sought to keep its image and profile kayoed in front of the bend of popular culture -- with the Beatles burning up the charts, something better and more hit that the Detours was called for, and between Daltrey and Townshend drubbing it tabu, they settled on the Who, which confused people in conversation at first only worked great (and unforgettably) on posters. Within a few more than months, amid all of these changes, original drummer Doug Sandom -- world Health Organization was well sr. than the others, and marital -- had parted shipway with the Detours, just as they were around to hear and make the jump to cutting a record. In his space, the group added Keith Moon, world Health Organization had antecedently drummed with a browse rock and roll band called the Beachcombers. As the group struggled to sustain a break, Townshend attended art school, patch the remaining troika worked odd jobs. Soon, the band became regulars at the Marquee Club in London and attracted a small following, which light-emitting diode to the interest group of manager Pete Meaden. Under the direction of Meaden, the Who changed their name to the High Numbers and began dressing in sharp suits, all in order to attract to the style and R&B-obsessed mods -- in the social guild of early-'60s English youth, the mods were ferociously independent teenagers, to begin with of bourgeoisie (by British standards) origins, world Health Organization began gathering together in working-class clubs, initially around London, in the early '60s; they togged up reasonably like Edwardian dandies, and were mostly interested in dancing, which they could do for hours under the influence of the pills that they seemed to pop incessantly; they besides lived their lives after work around likes and dislikes that could beset verbal altercations and even physical violence under the right-hand circumstances. Many R&B-oriented groups tried to naturalize relationships with the ranks of the mods, world Health Organization were fiercely loyal and could fill clubs and help oneself impel a track record onto the charts -- among those world Health Organization succeeded best, along with the Who, were the Small Faces ("face" being a share of mod slang) and the Move. The High Numbers released one single, "I'm the Face" -- betwixt their new list and the record, the band was push significant buttons among their quarry audience, "high number" and "human grimace" both being important parts of the vernacular. The record was, in typical fashion for the fourth dimension, comprised of deuce songs written by their handler, Meaden -- though "I'm the Face," as a composition, wasn't very much more than "Got Love If You Want It" retooled with mod lyrics. After the single bombed, the grouping ditched him and began working with Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp, 2 fledgling music business entrepreneurs world Health Organization had antecedently failed as film directors -- Lambert was the boy of composer Constant Lambert, piece Stamp was the brother of worker Terence Stamp (best remembered today for his office as Julie Christie's roguish married man in the 1967 motion-picture show show Far from the Madding Crowd), and both were nauseous to make their saint Mark in the now suddenly percolating and agitation popular culture scene in England. It was Lambert wHO offset spotty the radical playing one night at the Railway Hotel, in the wake of the "I'm the Face" single, and brought Stamp in, and betwixt the two they rescued the Who (or the High Numbers, as they were calling themselves at that moment). Instead of moving the dancing orchestra off from mod, Lambert and Stamp encouraged them to embracement the motion, offering them advice on both what to play and what to wear thin, including pushing the fair game T-shirt that became a key visual key signature. The pigeonholing reclaimed the Who prognosticate and began playing a set that consisted exclusively of soul, R&B, and Motown -- or, as their posters aforementioned, "Upper limit R&B." It was also during this period that, completely by fortuity, at a gig at the Railway Hotel, Townshend plastered his first guitar. It happened by accident, because of a temporary stage extension that the band had built, which was higher than the stage itself, and caused him to accidentally hit the ceiling with his instrument -- discomfited by his negative of the instrument, and the crowd's reaction, he smitten it once more, and over again, and before long it was in pieces, and it was only by victimization a 12-string Rickenbacker that he'd lately gotten that Townshend was able to goal the show. The following hebdomad, he discovered that people had heard about this, and had come to the Railway Hotel to see him smash his guitar. He eventually obliged with boost from Keith Moon, wHO attacked his metal drum kit -- and spell Lambert and Stamp were at number one shocked, Townshend plastered some other guitar to pieces a fiddling bit subsequently with Lambert's encouragement, as part of his publicity hunting expedition (and it worked, despite the fact that the journalist for whose benefit he committed the death never really saw it). In reality, he didn't smash guitars at every show in those days, and what he was doing, in footing of generating feedback, sufficed in most audience's minds -- shattering the guitar, when it did take lieu, only punctuated the feedback. It did enhance their condition with the mods, however, and by late 1964, they had developed an enthusiastic following -- they loved end as part of an dissemble (at unrivaled point the Move were smashing television pic tubes onstage; the Small Faces, by contrast, never needed anything so obvious, their one "gimmick" beingness minuscule Steve Marriott screaming like a dervish). At the end of the year, Townshend was able to salute the group with an original song called "I Can't Explain," which owed a short bit to the Kinks hit "You Really Got Me," simply had lots of fresh angles. Townshend's lyrics, in particular, gave a vivid, intuitive impression of adolescent angst and uncertainness that Daltrey could sing in his powerful, ballsy manner, while the band attacked the music full-bore, and the termination was a song that was punchy, sensitive, and macho all in one, with a lean, mean hint guitar opening night and break and even some harmonies in there as were expected in British rock candy & roll; tied better, the words managed to be crude and bold and sensible (in their peculiar way) -- it seemed like a great potentiality debut single for the fresh rechristened Who. Not only did the band and their managers think so, only so did producer Shel Talmy, an American based in England world Health Organization was already making lots of interference producing the Kinks' records (including "You Really Got Me"). Talmy got the stria a narrow with the American Decca Records mark on the strength of "I Can't Explain" and followed this with a shrink with English Decca (the deuce companies had been close related at one clock time -- and were once more as of 2000 -- but had divided into come apart entities in the 1950s). The individual, produced by Talmy, was released to short aid in January 1965, simply once the Who appeared on the television curriculum Ready, Steady, Go, the record stroke up the charts, since the group's incendiary performance, featuring Townshend and Moon destroying their instruments, became a whiz. "I Can't Explain" reached the British Top Ten, followed that summer by "Anyhow, Anyhow, Anywhere," which was most a mod hymn in all just name and declared the mod ethos to the populace; "I tin go anyplace (where I opt)" -- it actually wasn't that far distant from the mentality behind the Sparkletones' "Ignominious Slacks," among other young anthems of the early rock & roll earned run average in its sensibilities, demur that the Who made it sound decisively English, and it was a vast hit in England. That fall, "My Generation" climbed all the means to number deuce on the charts, positive the band's condition as a British pop phenomenon. An album of the same name followed at the end of the year, comprised of the championship song asset diverse R&B covers (specially of James Brown material) and some interesting originals, by and large by Townshend, on the U.K. Brunswick mark. And early in 1966, "Substitute" became their fourth British Top Ten hit. It was during this menstruation that Lambert had an specially potent influence on Townshend as a ballad maker. Lambert, the logos of a far-famed composer and arranger, introduced Townshend to a brobdingnagian range of classical music, including the run of Sir William Walton (with whom Lambert's father had worked extensively), Darius Milhaud, and various Baroque figures. Townshend didn't change his style of writing, which was soundless development and influenced by a hoi polloi of figures and styles, including Jimmy Reed and Sonny Boy Williamson II, Eddie Cochran and Mose Allison, merely he did end up broadening his way of intellection around composition and what unitary could do with songs and subject field affair. Over the years that followed, Lambert would encourage Townshend to go beyond the mod-themed wild-eyed subjects that would let seemed care a natural instruction for his songs. "Fill-in," produced by Kit Lambert, marked the band's acrimonious split with Talmy, with whom the lot and their managers were no yearner happy on the job, and the end of the group's British Decca/Brunswick recording squeeze -- Lambert and Stamp besides tested to fleck the American Decca plow, simply that proven unimaginable. Starting with "Reliever," the isthmus was at present sign-language to Polydor in England, and issued on Reaction. There ere, for a measure, rival releases on Brunswick and Reaction as Talmy and Brunswick, and Lambert and Stamp with Reaction dueled with the group's fortunes, but the competitor was eventually sorted out in Lambert and Stamp's (and the band's) favor. "I'm a Boy," issued in the summertime of 1966, was the number one gear Who single produced without some touch button on Brunswick entering the marketplace, and it (along with some of those Brunswick sides) showed just now how far the band and Townshend had come in 18 months -- "Substitute" was a tricky song that carried with it a engrossing character cogitation, and unitary with sociological overtones, no less, none of which got in the way of its invoke; "A Legal Matter" was a phenomenal wild-eyed (or, authentically, non-romantic) "story" song with a story and a herculean quasi-dramatic tattle role for Daltrey, and could nearly throw been section of a larger dead body of influence, like a stone musical or something more than challenging; "The Kids Are Alright" was similar, a vest pocket drama with outstanding harmonies, a memorable guitar break (and opening), and a strong dramatic performance by Daltrey; and "I'm a Boy" was an eerie (for a pop strain) example of gender and child misuse as issue matter, around a teenage boy wHO is feminized by his ascendent mother, forced to dress in girl's vesture and act the role of a young lady; it carried an awe-inspiring sum of exposition, and yet had plenteousness of room for the band's by today trademarked attack on their instruments, and Daltrey gift a firm vocal public presentation in what was very practically a dramatic part in illumination. The lot was essentially starring a double beingness artistically, generating immensely popular singles in England, which were gradually redefining the acceptable content and boundaries of pop/rock songs; what's more, their hard, manic approach to performing polished those songs up as some of the hardest -- in time nearly melodic and complex -- rocking bulge out singles of the point. Though no one recognized it, the Who were having as profound effect on the rock & roll landscape as the Beatles or the Rolling Stones. That was in England. The history in the United States was selfsame different. "I Can't Explain" had scantily created a ripple, and "In any case, Anyhow, Anywhere" did niggling punter disdain some promotion on the ABC television stone & turn over showcase Shindig. Even with Decca acquiring behind "My Generation" for a major selling push, the exclusive only got to number 74, which was scarcely a shadow of what it did in England. And the British achiever was all well and in effect, simply it wasn't sufficiency -- with a string of hit singles in that market and one album under their belt, and all of the most originative methods that Lambert and Stamp could formulate to maintain the band in the entreat and maximize their audience and their bookings, they were not losing money as fast as they power give. But the instrument-smashing routine and the attendant personal effects (often involving flash-powder and terms to Moon's drums as well as Townshend's guitars) had been terribly expensive, even if it had generated the entreat they needed to get people to check out their medicine; and even done more selectively, as it was subsequently 1966, with as practically skilled repair work as possible to salvage what could be reclaimed, it meant that the isthmus was carrying an ongoing (and ever ontogenesis) debt that no other playact had to concern themselves with, and drove the group's expenses through the roof. For all of their publicity, immense record gross revenue, and well-attended concerts engaged for teetotum fees, the specter of fiscal ruination was ne'er far from the thoughts of their management, this despite the fact that Lambert and Stamp were directly luxuriating in a new label imprint of their have under the Polydor umbrella, called Track Records -- and that Track had a new signing in recent 1966, a transplanted American guitarist/singer named Jimi Hendrix. A breakthrough for the Who in America, or in the album market in a major elbow room (or, sooner, both), was substantive. It was time to phonograph record a second record album, and this time Lambert and Stamp as well as the striation had a more than ambitious docket. They didn't totally give up their covers of R&B -- the chemical group liked doing them and the mod audience expected them -- merely Townshend's success at writing their singles had elysian their managers. Lambert and Stamp decided that every member of the Who should conduce songs this time, in purchase order to mother more gross. Although the ploy meant A Quick One -- as the record album was lastly called -- was uneven, Lambert's comportment allowed Townshend to write the title rail as a ten-minute mini-opera, an estimate he would expand over the following few years. As it was, "A Quick One While He's Away" showed Townshend writing (and the Who vocalizing and playing) in various idioms far beyond sway & roll out, including faux western and faux light opera -- these were authoritative moments for the players, getting dedicated rock & rollers Daltrey and Entwistle (wHO would just now as shortly get been crunching extinct covers of Eddie Cochran or something from the Vee-Jay Records song catalogue, or something finisher to "I Can't Explain") to go along and bemuse their total talents into the music, if even in a jocular fashion; and the track's successful telephone extension of a tale communication channel across what amounted to several songs showed Townshend and company that this estimation could be expanded upon. And one of the few moments of serious compromise in the song's production even seems to have anticipated 1 scene of next interpretation of their music by an admirer -- for the concluding incision, at that place should experience been a group of cellos playing accompaniment behind the grouping, only the group couldn't yield to charter the necessary musicians, so rather the members did a singular tolerant of modified vocalise, vocalizing a chorus of "violoncello violoncello cello violoncello," which worked beautifully on a melodious story as well as adding a surreal border to the coda; merely heard 40 age later, that mo besides uncannily prefigures Petra Haden's approach to recording her interlingual rendition of The Who Sell Out. As it was, though they got comparatively slight realisation for it in the iron out, the Who were expanding the boundaries of down music at least as far as anything the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, or anyone else was doing at the time. And that was only piece of the account -- A Quick One likewise provided a canvass for the efflorescence songwriting of Entwistle, whose sick mood shone through in comically engaging musical terms on the attention-getting "Boris the Spider" and "Whisky Man," the latter viewing off his skills on the French horn. Moon's "Cobwebs and Strange" was likewise a suited moment of light humor, and even Daltrey -- whose songwriting aspirations ne'er rated overly much of his care -- contributed "See My Way." It power non feature been a Beatles record album in timber, just A Quick One had a diversity of sounds and originative voices, and a chain of mountains to equal anything the Beatles were doing. Upon its 1966 discharge, A Quick One became some other British hit, and the record also provided a minor breakthrough in America, where the record album retitled Happy Jack and its title track reached the Top 40 in early 1967. But to do that, they were forced to tour the U.S. as voice of a software package circuit organized under the auspices of DJ-turned-impresario Murray the K. Booked aboard Cream (likewise a new do in America), folkies Jim & Jean, and Wilson Pickett, doing XV or 20-minute sets five shows a day, the radical got the exposure they mandatory to press the birdcall onto AM radio, and finally case known to a wider public, even though "Glad Jack" was a entirely atypical Who song, with its accent on musical harmony telling and its relatively restrained guitar part -- the ring establish itself in a internet site astonishingly like to that of their mod auditory sense rivals the Small Faces, world Health Organization break through in America round the same time with "Itchycoo Park," a song that was totally unrepresentative of their usual heavy. In the Who's case, they had a brace of sides cut 'tween 1965 and 1968 that were either singles and EPs that were only released in England, or were singles (or their B-sides) that were only hits on the British side of the Atlantic: "Pa Rolling Stone," "Call and Shimmy," "Anytime You Want Me," "The Good's Gone," "In the City," "Call Me Lightning," "The Last Time," "Under My Thumb," and "Dogs," summation the Quick Steady Who EP (which included "Bucket T" and "Disguises"). These established virtually a "shadow" history of the radical, and one that wasn't fully exposed in America until the eighties and the release of the compiling Who's Missing (which still managed to miss a few of those odd tracks). One curio about the radical from this geological period was the sense of humor that they showed at the drop of a chapeau. "Bucket T" was a report of a Jan & Dean cable car song, which reflected Moon's enthusiasm for surfboard euphony, patch "In the City" -- an Entwistle/Moon composition -- was a blithesome piece of rock & roll bagatelle more or less take chances and girls; and "Squall and Shimmy" and "Anytime You Want Me" were serious R&B-based covers, display Daltrey and the isthmus at their most soulful. All of these variations, minor and major, on the group's profound pointed to their plain range, and also to part of the mystical of their success -- that these four-spot guys didn't hold all that often in common musically or personally (and perchance wouldn't even have peculiarly liked each early if they'd met in any other linguistic context), yet they could overstretch it all together under unrivalled label as "the Who" and seduce it look tenacious, on two sides of a individual, quatern or fivesome EP sides, or a xII LPs tracks, and much more subtly but evenly successfully inside the like birdsong. In that sense, they were as complex and various as the Beatles, just hadn't fallen into the trap of aiming at pop/rock (or writing songs and qualification records that were impossible to do onstage), and traded in electric power levels that were higher than those utilised by the Rolling Stones -- tied their softest-sounding records, such as "Well-chosen Jack" with all of its harmonies (the recording of which lED to the studio antics by Moon that resulted in Townshend's jocular, chiding "I saw ya" tacked onto the fadeout), had a punchy, hard edge that allowed them to be done full-out onstage. What surprised listeners world Health Organization later heard the Live at Leeds album was how much their springy performances sounded like their records, omit that they'd experience had it backward -- the Who's records captured their actual live profound. The chemical group quickly left Murray the K behind, and their following major milestone in the U.S.A. was playacting the Fillmore in San Francisco. For that occasion, even so, they had a problem that was the reverse gear of the Murray the K performances -- the latter had been excessively attenuated at 15 to 20 transactions, merely to wreak the Fillmore their usual 40-minute sets were to a fault short. In the Richard Barnes book Maximum R&B, it was recalled that they had to learn the entire mini-opera and the catch one's breath of A Quick One, which they had not been playacting live, in order to lengthen their place. The Fillmore gig preceded the individual most significant show they'd of all time played in America, at the Monterey International Pop Festival in June of 1967. That put them on a collision course with their Track Records labelmate Jimi Hendrix, in a duel earlier the hearing and the cameras, to examine world Health Organization could end their plant more outrageously. Hendrix south Korean won the twenty-four hour period with his inflammatory performance, just the Who acquitted themselves praiseworthily with a wipeout of their instruments that was silent startling to escort 40 days afterward, when the flick was shown theatrically on the anniversary of the event. They went right from Monterey to another U.S. tour, this time opening for Herman's Hermits, which was an impossible fit for both groups. The other British outfit, pop/rock favorites for triad years, was silent draught an audience consisting for the most part of jr. teenagers -- and largely girls -- potty of Peter Noone, the cheerfully charming lede singer. Here were the four members of the Who, Daltrey all macho swagger and hardly "safe," backed by Townshend with his beak of a hooter, the stoic, ominously stone-faced Entwistle, and Moon the lunatic at the drums, doing hard R&B and a plant of for the most part uptight hard rock candy with their amps off up to 11, trying to deal with crowds chanting "We want Herman"; the tour wasn't helped by the fact that, thanks to the publicity they'd gotten belatedly around their old British act, they'd been forced to go back to shattering instruments, so that Noone often came onto a point cluttered with the pieces of unitary of Townshend's guitars. It was all so surreal that it's a shame no unitary filmed whatsoever of the shows along the tour, which did aught for the lot. Additionally, they mat up awkward reverting to their erstwhile stagecoach play, as they'd finished function on a new record album, and an ensuant individual, that delineated a new stage musically. The Who Sell Out was a construct album constructed as a mock-pirate radio transmit, a loving testimonial to the England's pirate wireless stations, which had been closed in a authorities crackdown. (Those quest a look at what buccaneer receiving set was like in England should look into out the 1966 Hidden Agent instalment "Non So Jolly Roger," which is place at a sea rover radio surgical process, at sea.) The group had thrown and twisted everything they had into the album in an try to solidify their position in England and crack the U.S. market place once and for all, including the vocal "I Can See for Miles" -- it seemed like a certain chart-topper, an explosion of excitement and controlled tension, all carried on a soaring, tricky air line of work; Daltrey's performance was the topper of his career to date, simply he was matched by Townshend's slashing guitar and Moon's phrenetic drumming, and Entwistle's anchor-like bass in the middle of it all. It took a draw of wreak at trey different studios on iI continents and two coasts -- including Gold Star in Los Angeles -- make that level-headed; and the record book so well in that department, and was, as a issue, so difficult to play live that it became the alone hit in the group's history that they abandoned attempting to do onstage. It was aimed at leaving all the way, in the wake up of the monumental exposure they'd received in 1967, and did become the group's humble gear Top Ten run into in America, and reached number deuce in England -- simply that wasn't sufficient for what the band or their management requisite. The group fagged much of the class 1968 sightedness their singles "Call Me Lightning," "Magic Bus," and "Dogs" -- the latter growing out of Townshend's stake at the time in canis familiaris racing -- fail to sell in anything like their expected numbers racket, with "Dogs" non charting at all in its British-only spill. Even Townshend hit a crisis of confidence in himself. Meanwhile, Track Records, squeezed for cash even with Jimi Hendrix's burgeoning gross sales, put together the delightfully flakey Lead Hits, compiling the band's more late singles (none of the Shel Talmy-produced sides on Brunswick were delineated), which gave a good profile of their U.K. output up to that point in time. In the United States, Decca Records -- with only two literal "hits" by the group to work with, asset "Trick Bus" (which in reality did accidentally well on that side of the Atlantic) -- declined to pose out a like packet and, or else, assembled Magic Bus, an unacknowledged compiling album built around the hit and drawn from U.K. singles, EP tracks, and recent album tracks. It was deceptively subtitled "The Who on Tour," and that's a lot of what they did in 1968, especially in the United States, simply non the same manner they had the old year. Instead of playing to jr. teenagers at shows headlined by Herman's Hermits, they were playing places care the Fillmore East, where they recorded unitary show for a possible live album, a plan that went haywire when the show turned out to be not quite good sufficiency to exemplify the grouping, and was abandoned only with the huge changes in their repertory that ensued in 1969. When they weren't devising their first good long-term clearance in the U.S.A., the band -- generally Townshend, in collaboration with Lambert on the early libretto -- was expenditure a fortune of time fashioning and recording a large-scale exercise. Tommy, as it was in the end called, was released in May of 1969, more than a year and a half after their old album. It was an unlikely venture, as well -- even with all of the time fagged on it, the recording wasn't closely finished, at least as Townshend and company saw it, in damage of instruments they'd have wanted to include on certain songs, and Entwistle was specially upset at the basso good on the released recording. But there was no more fourth dimension left, for overdubs or retakes or whatsoever more work on it -- the band, and Lambert and Stamp, were prohibited of money and out of options, and Tommy was released as it was, work in progress though it was. And for the first time, the stars (and everything else) lined up in the Who's party favor, specially in the United States. There was an established and growing serious rock 'n' roll conjure by then, with a dedicated audience on college campuses and high schools, and its writers seized on the record album as a masterpiece. By then, the mainstream weightlift had likewise started to get rock-and-roll music seriously, and the Who were new enough and fresh enough, and Tommy challenging enough so that it became one of the almost widely reviewed and written more or less albums in history, and the Who along with it as artists. Tommy climbed into the American Top Ten as the radical supported the album with an extensive tour, where they played the opera in its entireness, including dates at the London Coliseum and the Metropolitan Opera in New York. In some respects, Tommy became to a fault successful -- audiences expected it to be through with in its entirety at every show, and suddenly the Who, world Health Organization had in one case had trouble extending their set for their first gig at the Fillmore, were routinely playing for iI hours at a clip. The work soon overshadowed the Who themselves; it was performed as a play crossways the cosmos, redone as an orchestrated all-star extravaganza (star Daltrey and featuring Townshend's guitar), and would finally be filmed by Ken Russell in 1975 (the movie asterisked Daltrey) -- asset, in 1993, Townshend turned it into a Broadway musical with director Des McAnuff. While the bequest of Tommy unbroken the band fussy touring for near two years, Townshend was stumped about how to pursue it up. As he worked on new material, the group released Hot at Leeds in 1970, which gave them some breathing room (and yielded a reach exclusive in the mannikin of "Summer Blues") as well as the single "The Seeker." Eventually, he settled on a sci-fi rock opera called Lifehouse, which he intended to be powerfully influenced by the teachings of his guru, Meher Baba. Townshend besides intended to integrate electronics and synthesizers on the album, push the radical into new sonic soil. The residuum of the Who wasn't particularly charmed with Lifehouse, claiming not to understand its secret plan, and their reluctance contributed to Townshend suffering a queasy dislocation. Once he healed, the group picked up the pieces of the now-abandoned project and recorded Who's Next with producer Glyn Johns. Boasting a harder, heavier sound, Who's Next became a major come to, and many of its tracks -- including "Baba O'Riley," "Bargain," "Behind Blue Eyes," and "Won't Get Fooled Again" (which were both issued as singles), and Entwistle's "My Wife" -- became cornerstones of album-oriented FM tuner in the '70s. The go behind Who's Next coagulated the Who as one of the deuce top hot careen attractions in the worldly concern, with record loyal sell-outs on some of the top arenas in the country -- along with the Rolling Stones, they ruled the arena rock landscape of the 1970s. And abruptly their history was of interest to millions of fans as never before, and as a follow-up to Who's Next, they issued Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy, a 14-song retrospective of their singles -- many of which had never been on album -- that also sold in massive numbers. The succeeder of Who's Next prompted Townshend to attempt another opera. This time, he abandoned fantasy in order to sketch a portrait of a '60s mod with Quadrophenia. He was besides no yearner working with Kit Lambert, world Health Organization had lost influence with the group in the wake up of the first rock opera house -- during this period, the band would also entrust Lambert and Stamp's management. As he wrote the album in 1972, he released World Health Organization Came First, a collecting of secret recordings and demos he made for Meher Baba. Entwistle had already begun his have solo calling with the album Ruin Your Head Against the Wall, and he followed this up with Whistle Rhymes, released the same sidereal day as Townshend's album. Quadrophenia was released as a double album in 1973, and it sold passing well, but it proven to be a trouble as a concert piece -- barely anyone outside of England was intimate with its mod matter affair, and as the band embarked on an ambitious tour, it shortly became clear that audiences hadn't had the time to familiarise themselves with the sour, star to a halfhearted response to much of the new material. And to create matters worsened, Quadrophenia was very strong to play live. Eventually, the mathematical group retooled its set, removing a fistful of the more than hard parts of the opera, and performed an cut version of Quadrophenia with some success. The Who began to fragment after the release of Quadrophenia, as Townshend began to publicly fret over his role as a tilt spokesman; in individual, he began sinking feeling into alcohol maltreat. Entwistle concentrated heavily on his solo calling, including recordings with his face projects Ox and Rigor Mortis. Meanwhile, Daltrey was coming the tip of his musical powers -- in the wake of performing Tommy onstage for iI years (as well the orchestral adaptation, and the movie), plus the repertory on the Who's Next tour, he had become a truly great vocaliser, and had base himself unexpectedly comfy as an worker -- perchance a by-product of singing all of those Townshend-authored "roles" from 1965 forrader. He alternately pursued an performing calling and solo recordings. Moon, in the meantime, continued to party, celebrating his substance abuse and eventually cathartic the solo album Deuce Sides of the Moon, which was studded with star topology cameos. During this hiatus, the radical was delineate by the rarities assemblage Betting odds & Sods (1974), the table of contents of which overlapped and transcended whatever number of resistance (i.e., "bootleg") collections that were trading freely among serious fans -- it was seized upon by eager fans and charted like a new release. Meanwhile, Townshend continued to exploit on songs for the Who, resulting in the disarmingly personal The Who by Numbers in 1975. The track record and its accompanying circuit became a rack up, though its number ashcan School location in the U.S. reflected some modest diminishing of enthusiasm on the piece of listeners -- Quadrophenia, scorn being a quite expensive double LP (with replete, illustrated libretto) and reinforced about a passably outré subject, had reached numeral two on both sides of the Atlantic. Following the tour's mop up, the ring officially took an extended abatement. The late '70s saw the band start to give in to the ravages of age, as well as the life-style inherent in professional stone & roll at their level. It was revealed that Townshend, after age of playing onstage with the band, had for good damaged his hearing. And on the 1976 tour, Moon collapsed onstage exactly a few proceedings into a show at the Boston Garden -- he recovered and seemed to laugh turned the incident, patch an audience member sabbatum in behind the drum kit to admit the band to conclusion the carrying out. He continued to party like at that place was no tomorrow, and even brought up the whimsy of a possible successor, should one ever be needed, in the pretense of ex-Small Faces/Faces drummer Kenney Jones. The Who reconvened in early 1978 to criminal record WHO Are You, which was released in August of that year, accompanied by a stunning promotional/performance picture of the title strain. Instead of responding to the guerilla kindling effort, which labelled the Who as has-beens, the album delineate the group's heaviest flirting with prog rock since Quadrophenia. The album became a immense strike, peaking at act two in the American charts and earning a platinum record laurels. Instead of being a exultant comeback, notwithstanding, WHO Are You became a symbol of catastrophe -- on September 7, 1978, not deuce-ace weeks after the album's release, Moon died of a drug o.d.. Since Moon was such an constitutional portion of the Who's good and mental image, the band had to debate whether continuing on was a wise act. Eventually, they distinct to go on performing, merely all three surviving members would later claim that they felt the Who complete with Moon's death, and to the highest degree fans would have agreed, at least until the button of Endless Wire in 2006. They took Moon's own suggestion and hired Kenney Jones as his replacement, as good as keyboardist John "Rabbit" Bundrick to round of golf out the lineup, and began functional on new material in 1979. Before they released a new record, they released the live documentary The Kids Are Alright and contributed music to Franc Roddam's cinematic version of Quadrophenia, which starred Phil Daniels. The Who began touring subsequently in 1979, simply the tour's momentum was crushed when 11 attendees at the group's December 3, 1979, concert at Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum were trampled to death in a rush for pick festival seating. The band wasn't informed of the incident until afterwards the concert was finished, and the tragedy chopfallen any good will they had. Following the Cincinnati concert, the Who easy fell aside. Townshend became addicted to cocain, diacetylmorphine, tranquilizers, and alcohol, hurt a near-fatal o.d. in 1981. Meanwhile, Entwistle and Daltrey soldiered on in their solo careers. The band reconvened in 1981 to record and release Face Dances, their first record album since Moon's death. The album was a off but standard mixed reviews. The following yr, they released It's Hard and embarked on a encouraging circuit billed as their farewell to fans. The resilient Who's Last was released in 1984 as a commemoration of the circuit. The parting tour didn't release out to be the concluding goodbye from the Who. While Entwistle and Daltrey easy faded away, their solo careers losing momentum crossways the end of the decennium, Townshend continued recording to congeneric success. However, the Who static obsessed him. The group reunited to spiel Live Aid in 1985, and leash years later, they played a British music awards programme. In 1989, Townshend agreed to reunite the band, minus Kenney Jones, world Health Organization was replaced by session drummer Simon Phillips for something billed as a 25th day of remembrance tour of America. Whatever good will the Who had with many fans and critics was wasted on that turn, which was sensed as simply a elbow room to create a raft of money -- which, in all satinpod, Daltrey and, especially, Entwistle required. They complete up with the worst reviews in their history, and followed it up with a alive album, Get together Together, that was the nadir of their recording history, shapeless, mat, and, worst of all -- and almost amazingly for this band -- dull. The Who reunited once more in 1994 for 2 concerts to fete Daltrey's fiftieth birthday. The commercial success of the spell did have one positive consequence on Townshend, portion to jump-start the effort to bring Tommy to the Broadway point. It became a brobdingnagian rack up in this young locale and revived sake in the original recording, which reappeared in several different CD incarnations, the topper of which -- the Mobile Fidelity ultradisc and the Universal "de luxe edition" -- finally presented it with the crispness and presence it merited. Following his success with Tommy, Townshend decided to recreate Quadrophenia in 1996, reuniting the Who to perform the piece at the Prince's Trust concert in Hyde Park that summer. The Who followed it with an American turn in the fall, which proven to be a failure. The next ime, the Who launched an oldies turn of America that was unattended by the press. In October 2001, they played the Concert for N.Y.C. welfare for families of the victims of the September 11 attacks. In late June 2002, the Who had once over again regrouped and were approximately to recoil sour a North American sprain when Entwistle died at the years of 57 in Las Vegas' Hard Rock Hotel. In 2006, Townshend and Daltrey released the mini-opera Wire & Glass, their number unitary coaction as the Who in closely a quarter century. The uncut Endless Wire, which included the EP, was released afterward that year to the topper reviews that whatsoever Who album had gotten since WHO Are You, 28 year earlier. The sequent twist was besides well-received, and for the first clip since the eighties there seemed to be a compass point to the group's continued existence, as something other than a mercenary machine. |
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