The Who - WHO

 

The Who WHO: Six Disc 7-inch vinyl box set

Plus Live At Kingston CD

"WHO stands up alongside the classics" — 4/5 stars, NME

"A powerful, relevant album that does what good art should do: It expresses something about what it means to be alive." — 5/5 stars, The Times

WHO is a new album by the legendary rock band released in November 2019. Their first album in 13 years, WHO features 11 tracks, mostly recorded in London and Los Angeles during spring and summer 2019. It was co-produced by Pete Townshend and D. Sardy (who has worked with Noel Gallagher, Oasis, LCD Soundsystem, Gorillaz) with vocal production by Dave Eringa (Manic Street Preachers, Roger Daltrey, Wilko Johnson).

This new six-disc 7-inch vinyl boxset includes the album tracks plus a CD of acoustic tracks from the band's only live shows of 2020 (Live At Kingston). The set also includes an updated version of "Beads On One String" (Yaggerdang Remix) newly remixed by Pete Townshend.

Singer Roger Daltrey and guitarist and songwriter Pete Townshend are joined on the album by long-time Who drummer Zak Starkey and bassist Pino Palladino along with contributions from Simon Townshend, Benmont Tench, Carla Azar, Joey Waronker and Gordon Giltrap.

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."

LP 1

1. All This Music Must Fade

2. Ball and Chain

LP 2

1. I Don’t Wanna Get Wise

2. Detour

LP 3

1. Beads On One String

2. Hero Ground Zero

LP 4

1. Street Song

2. I’ll Be Back

LP 5

1. Break The News

2. Rockin’ In Rage

LP 6

1. She Rocked My World

2. Beads On One String – Yaggerdang Remix

CD: 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)

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