Review: The Who – Greatest Hits Live
The Who at its best is the equal of any live band ever, so the new double CD Greatest Hits Live has plenty of potential. On the other hand, cherry-picking from concerts over a 42-year period (1965 to...
View ArticleThe who’s music brilliantly discussed
Ever wondered what Tommy is really about? Curious about those odd Who tracks like Dogs and Circles? Interested in what reviewers at the time thought about the Who’s classic tracks? Or where to get the...
View ArticleSHM-SACD – super-expensive, but how super is the sound?
The problems facing the music industry are well-known: the CD market is fast disappearing thanks to digital downloads, both legal and illegal, and income gained from downloads does not look likely to...
View ArticleJust when you’ve finished paying for Live at Leeds, here comes the...
Details are scant, but Amazon is now listing a new edition of The Who’s Quadrophenia, complete with book and (from the picture) five discs of some description. Quadrophenia is one album I still play...
View ArticleReview: Quadrophenia director’s cut
This might be my favourite album ever. It connects somehow, the frustration of My g-g-g-generation extended to an entire double album, played with the frenetic energy and genius of The Who, and...
View ArticleQuadrophenia Exhibition in London’s Carnaby Street
A shop called Pretty Green - The Jam, mods, geddit? – has an exhibition devoted to The Who’s Quadrophenia, which I visited today as it is a favourite album of mine. The exhibition is in the basement...
View ArticleReview: Tommy Super Deluxe box by the who
I still remember the first time I encountered the Who’s Tommy LP. It was one of the early ones with a high gloss finish; the artwork is spectacular, with a triple fold that opens out with the track...
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