And The Music’s All Right: “The Who By Numbers” Goes Super Deluxe

May 1975 found Pete Townshend turning 30 and troubled by thoughts of the future.  What would it hold for The Who, the music business, and rock and roll itself?  He poured his anxieties and emotions into The Who by Numbers, the October ’75 release of which would become the band’s seventh studio album.  On October 30, Polydor and UMe celebrates 51 (!) years of The Who by Numbers with a new 5CD/1Blu-ray Super Deluxe Edition. Sessions for the album began in April 1975 and continued through early June, with producer Glyn Johns…

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No Substitute: Release of 1971 Gig by The Who Heralds Their Farewell Tour

Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend today announced that, just over 60 years since their first appearances, The Who will bid farewell this fall with The Song is Over, one final tour of North America. But the music is hardly stopping, so to speak: the group will also officially release a long sought-after live performance this summer. Available first as part of the band’s revived Wholigan Fan Club, then as a general release on August 22, The Who’s Live At The Oval 1971 will finally canonize the group’s celebrated performance at “Goodbye to Summer,” a…

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