The Who WHO (2020 Deluxe CD w/ Live At Kingston)

Polydor

£12.55

Format: Deluxe CD
Release Date – 30th October 2020
UPC – 0602435129433
Cat Number – 3512943
Genre: Rock

The Who has one of the greatest rock legacies in music history - they're one of the all-time great live bands, have sold over 100 million records worldwide, and had 10 US and 11 UK top ten albums and 14 UK top ten singles in a career spanning six decades.

WHO was mostly recorded in London and Los Angeles during spring and summer 2019 and was co-produced by Pete Townshend and Dave Sardy (who has worked with Noel Gallagher, Oasis, LCD Soundsystem and Gorillaz) with vocal production by Dave Eringa (Manic Street Preachers, Roger Daltrey, Wilko Johnson). 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, Carla Azar, Joey Waronker and Gordon Giltrap.

The 2020 deluxe edition features Pete Townshend’s remix of Beads On One String plus The Who Live at Kingston, a special acoustic performance recorded on 14th February 2020, recorded 50 years to the day since the seminal Live at Leeds show.

Tracklisting
DISC 1 (WHO)
1. All This Music Must Fade
2. Ball and Chain
3. I Don’t Wanna Get Wise
4. Detour
5. Beads On One String
6. Hero Ground Zero
7. Street Song
8. I’ll Be Back
9. Break The News
10. Rockin’ In Rage
11. She Rocked My World
12. Beads On One String – Yaggerdang Remix

DISC 2 (Live at Kingston)
1. Intro
2. Substitute (Acoustic – Live at Kingston)
3. Squeeze Box (Acoustic – Live at Kingston)
4. Tattoo (Acoustic – Live at Kingston)
5. The Kids Are Alright (Acoustic – Live at Kingston)
6. Break The News (Acoustic – Live at Kingston)
7. She Rocked My World (Acoustic – Live at Kingston)
8. Won’t Get Fooled Again (Acoustic – Live at Kingston)

On 30th October The Who are to release a new version of last year’s album ‘WHO’ featuring an updated version of Beads On One String newly remixed by Pete Townshend and acoustic tracks from the band’s only live shows of 2020.

The songs on the deluxe version of ‘WHO’ were recorded in Kingston on Valentines Day this year exactly 50 years to the day since The Who’s seminal show at Leeds which became the infamous live album ‘Live At Leeds.’

The deluxe version of ‘WHO’ is preceded on 5th October by ‘Beads On One String (Yaggerdang Remix)' of this new version of the song Pete Townshend says "This is a cowrite with Josh Hunsacker who I met on Soundcloud. He wrote the music, I wrote the lyric and vocal melody. In 1932 on a visit to London the spiritual master Meher Baba said that he had come to draw all the religions of the world together like beads on one string. We wait in hope, with love."

CRITICAL PRAISE FOR ‘WHO'

“THEIR BEST SINCE QUADROPHENIA” - 9/10 UNCUT

“THE WHO WILL NOT GO QUIETLY” - 4/5 MOJO

“A POWERFUL, RELEVANT ALBUM THAT DOES WHAT GOOD ART SHOULD DO: IT EXPRESSES SOMETHING ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS TO BE ALIVE" – 5/5 THE TIMES
“THIS IS THEIR BEST ALBUM IN 40 YEARS” - 4/5 TELEGRAPH

“WHO STANDS UP ALONGSIDE THEIR CLASSICS” – 4/5 NME

“A RETURN TO FORM, REMINDING US WHY THEY DESERVE THEIR PLACE IN ROCK 'N' ROLL HISTORY...” – 8/10 CLASH MAGAZINE

“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” – 4/5 THE GUARDIAN

“THEIR BEST SINCE WHO BY NUMBERS IN 1975” – THE TIMES

“A RESOUNDING MONUMENTAL, MODERN ALBUM FOR ALL WHO FANS” – 4/5 THE EXPRESS

“THE OLD GUYS ARE MORE THAN ALRIGHT” – 4/5 THE METRO

THE WHO UK TOUR MARCH 2021:

Friday 5th 3 Arena Dublin

Monday 8th M&S Bank Liverpool

Wednesday 10th SSE Hydro, Glasgow

Friday 12th Utilita Newcastle

Monday 15th First Direct Arena Leeds

Wednesday 17th RWA Birmingham

Monday 22nd SSE Arena Wembley

Wednesday 24th Motorpoint Arena Nottingham

Saturday 27th Motorpoint Arena Cardiff

Monday 29th Manchester Arena

Tickets on sale now at https://www.livenation.co.uk/artist/the-who-tickets

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