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The Who's recordings by recording date:


1964-1969 updated Oct. 12, 2017	1970-1978 updated Oct. 01, 2023	1979-present updated Sep. 30, 2008

CD reviews by Tom Brennan

The Who-Then And Now 1964-2004 added April 9, 2004

Complete BBC Sessions listings (1965-1973)

My Generation analysis (1965) and deluxe edition (2002) updated July 22, 2003

Who's Missing analysis (1985) updated October 07, 2023

Two's Missing analysis (1987) updated October 07, 2023

Odds And Sods analysis (1998 reissue)

Upcoming & New Releases

The Who At Kilburn: 1977 (2008)
DVD released: November 18, 2008
The Who at Kilburn 1977 documents the last concert footage of The Who (December 15, 1977) with Keith Moon on the drums other than the filming done at Shepperton Studios on May 25, 1978. Very little from this performance was used in the documentary, "The Kids Are Alright". Now, for the first time, all the footage and audio is being released in superb quality. The older songs are perfomed well enough, but on newer songs like 'Dreaming From The Waist', The Who show that their long layoff has affected their performance, as Roger forgets the lyrics. After 'I'm Free', The band forget what to play next from their 1976 set list, which is roughly what they are performing here. During their closing 'My Generation/Join Together' medley, they toss in a rough version of their new song ' Who Are You?' in place of the usual 'Roadrunner'.

Also included as a bonus disc is all the surviving footage of the London Coliseum concert from December 14, 1969. While the complete audio is included in excellent quality, the film footage is very rough and large sections of 'A Quick One, While He's Away' and 'Christmas' are missing, so some artistic footage from other parts of the concert had to be inserted to fill the gap. My only complaint with this DVD is that you have to jump back and forth between the main title and the bonus chapter to hear the complete concert. 'A Quick One, While He's Away' is cut short and most of "Tommy" is missing from the main program.

View From A Backstage Pass (2007)
Released online (requires $50 annual subscription to www.thewho.com): November 5, 2007
This is the long awaited live collection of The Who in concert with Keith Moon, compiled and mixed by long time sound man & roadie Bob Pridden. So far, it's not available in stores, only by subscription.

Disc 1:
01. Fortune Teller
Recorded at The Grande Ballroom, Dearborn, Michigan, 12 October 1969
02. Happy Jack
03. I'm A Boy
04. A Quick One, While He's Away
Recorded at City Hall, Hull, 15 February 1970
05. Magic Bus
Recorded at Mammoth Gardens, Denver, Colorado, 9 June 1970
06. I Can't Explain
07. Substitute
08. My Wife
09. Behind Blue Eyes
10. Bargain
11. Baby Don't You Do It
Recorded at Civic Auditorium, San Francisco, California, 13 December 1971

Disc 2:
01. The Punk And The Godfather
02. 5:15
03. Won't Get Fooled Again
Recorded at The Capital Centre, Largo, Maryland, 6 December 1973
04. Young Man Blues
05. Tattoo
06. Boris The Spider
07. Naked Eye/Let's See Action/My Generation Blues
Recorded at Charlton Athletic Football Club, South London,18 May 1974
08. Squeeze Box
09. Dreaming From The Waist
10. Fiddle About
11. Pinball Wizard
12. I'm Free
13. Tommy's Holiday Camp
14. We're Not Gonna Take It
15. See Me, Feel Me/Listening To You
Recorded at Vetch Field, Swansea, Wales, 12 June 1976

Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who (2007)
DVD released: November 6, 2007
This is a brand new 2 DVD documentary that is also available from Best Buy stores as a 3-DVD set where the added bonus is an extra DVD of highlights from the 1979 Chicago concert.

Who's Better, Who's Best (1988)
DVD released: October 31, 2006
Who's Better, Who's Best has finally gotten released on DVD with mixed results. The clips taken from video tape sources are really sharp looking; you can even see occasional tape glitches (I'm A Boy and Pictures Of Lily) that are part of the source tape! One of the poorest transfers though, this time from film, is Join Together. I don't know why the scratches in this color film weren't digitally cleaned-up somehow, unless there were budget limitations on this project. The promo films by the Kenney Jones era Who are nice to have complete (included here as a bonus), but I wish the Face Dances clips would have been speed corrected. I know that's the way the originals are but it would be nice to hear them at the correct speed. Maybe at the time of their release, it was an attempt to make the band sound younger. Instead of mixing in concert footage, it would have been more consistent to use all TV performances along with all the original promo films. For example, the Beat Club clips of Magic Bus and I'm Free could have been used, and the Tom Jones Show performance of Pinball Wizard would have been nice instead of the same old boring Woodstock performance. The biggest problem with this DVD however is with I Can See For Miles from the Smothers Brothers Show. The package lists the clip as being 3:53 long, but the video fades out at around 1:30!!! If that was a factory error, I want a new copy! Despite all its quirks, this DVD is still a must-have, especially for the live My Generation, the rare The Kids Are Alright in Hyde Park and the vintage I Can't Explain with mod footage.
Tom Brennan, posted February 5, 2007

The Who: On October 31, 2006, Endless Wire was released as both a single CD and deluxe edition CD + bonus DVD set.

Disc 1:
01. Fragments
02. Man in a Purple Dress
03. Mike Post Theme
04. In the Ether
05. Black Widow's Eyes
06. Two Thousand Years
07. God Speaks of Marty Robbins
08. It's Not Enough
09. You Stand by Me
10. Sound Round
11. Pick Up the Peace
12. Unholy Trinity
13. Trilby's Piano
14. Endless Wire
15. Fragments of Fragments
16. We Got a Hit
17. They Made My Dream Come True
18. Mirror Door
19. Tea & Theatre
Disc 2: [bonus DVD-28:17]
01. Mike Post Theme (from the new album Endless Wire)
02. Won't Get Fooled Again
03. Baba O Riley
04. Behind Blue Eyes
05. Who Are You

The Who: On August 1, 2006, a CD single (U.K. release) featuring excerpts from their upcoming "Wire And Glass" CD which is due out in October. The new CD features a new mini-opera called 'The Boy Who Heard Music'.
Wire And Glass CD single
Six Songs From A Mini-Opera:
1. Sound Round 1:22
2. Pick Up The Peace 1:26
3. Endless Wire 1:50
4. We Got A Hit 1:17
5. They Made My Dreams Come True 1:12
6. Mirror Door [Live] 4:16

The Who: On October 25, 2005, "The Who Under Review 1964-1968" was released on DVD (75 minute independent analysis)

Isle Of Wight 1970 DVD remastered in 5.1 Surround Sound!

The Who Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 DVD (5.1 surround sound)

Released in August, 2004, this newly remastered DVD is a huge improvement sonically over the previous 1997 DVD release. Where the original DVD release's audio was flat and weak, this new surround sound version is powerful and dynamic. Unfortunately, the video is still heavily edited and resequenced. There are a bunch of "Tommy" songs missing and two ("Eyesight To The Blind" and "Tommy's Holiday Camp") are edited. It would have been nice to have the entire set as released on CD in the correct order, but maybe film didn't exist for everything. Anyway, at least they could have put "Tommy" back in the middle of the set where it belongs. This is definitely worth getting and probably the best we'll ever see of this on a video release. Oh yeah, and this edition includes a new 30-minute interview with Pete Townshend, who talks about the meanings of various songs, like "Water", and tells a few Keith Moon stories.
The Who Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 DVD promo sticker

The Who Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 DVD promo sticker

Put Downs & Send-Ups Tour
An interview CD was released on April 13, 2004. This is the first in a series of interview discs from the archives of Don Paulsen who was the editor of Hit Parade Magazine and a photo/journalist for Rolling Stone Magazine in the '60s.
Track listing:
interviews with Pete (tracks 1-15)
interviews with Roger (tracks 16-17)
interviews with Keith (tracks 18-28)
interviews with John (tracks 29-32)

The Who-Then & Now 1964-2004
A new Who "Best of" CD was released on March 30, 2004. This time though, There are 2 new recordings included. This single CD release is to celebrate The Who's 40th anniversary. This release reminds me of what The Monkees did in 1986 for their 20th anniversary where they released their greatest hits and included 3 new songs on their release. See CD reviews section below for more details...

Tommy deluxe edition released on October 28, 2003
On October 28, 2003, the "Tommy" album was reissued in a deluxe version on CD. For the first time, the original 2-track stereo master is being used for a CD release. The original stereo master was found in the MCA vaults in Los Angeles. The deluxe edition is a combination of SACD and conventional CD format with both stereo and 5.1 surround sound formats. The previous 1996 release of Tommy on CD was a remix from the multi-track master, and is slightly different than the original 1969 stereo mix.
Disc 2 of the deluxe edition will be alternate versions, demos and outtakes as follows:
I Was [outtake]
Christmas [alternate take]
Model Child [previously released on "Odds And Sods" remaster CD]
Young Man Blues [studio version with double-tracked vocal]
Tommy Can You Hear Me? [alternate take]
Trying To Get Through [outtake]
Sally Simpson [session bloopers and chat]
Miss Simpson [alternate take]
Welcome [take 2 (alternate take)]
Tommy's Holiday Camp [Who version-outtake; released version is Pete's demo)]
We're Not Gonna Take It [early version without "Listening To You" section]
Dogs, Part 2 [remixed, B-side of Pinball Wizard]
It's A Boy [demo]
Amazing Journey [demo]
Christmas [demo]
Do You Think It's Alright? [demo]
Pinball Wizard [demo]

Other notes:
The SACD mix of "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere" is missing backing vocals. This was an engineering error where the wrong mix was used.
"Sparks" is slightly longer
The fade of "Pinball Wizard" has a pinball machine noise (from the original multi-track tape)
"See Me Feel Me" is indexed as a separate track (finally) from "We're Not Gonna Take It"
"Welcome" was supposed to have been sequenced AFTER "Tommy's Holiday Camp" on the original LP
Future surround sound mixes:
Quadrophenia (already started)
Who's Next
Live At Leeds
Empty Glass [Pete's solo album]

The DVD-Audio version will have a new interview with Pete Townshend included. It will be released on April 27, 2004.
news from ICE

The Kids Are Alright DVD released September 30, 2003

The Kids Are Alright special edition DVD, release date: September 30, 2003

DVD Features:
Commentary by Jeff Stein
Restored to the original "Director's Cut" length of 109 minutes.
Almost 100 minutes of never-before-seen multi-camera angle footage.
Completely re-mastered in Hi-Definition and 5.1 surround from the original film elements and multi-tracks.
Packed with a 32 page collectable booklet and a second disc full of extras, interviews and never before seen footage.
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:
Roger Daltrey - An incredible new on-camera interview from this living legend.
Multi Camera Angles - An extremely rare feature that is almost 100 minutes and featuring as many as 6 angles including a Pete cam, a Roger cam, a Moonie cam and an Ox cam.
Making of the DVD - 40 minute feature offering an in-depth look at how the film was restored.
Audio Comparison - This 8 minute feature provides a direct side-by-side comparison of the before and after audio.
Video Comparison - This 6 minute feature provides a direct side-by-side comparison of the before and after so people can see what they've been missing all these 24 years!
The Ox - A very special audio feature allowing the user to select an isolated audio track of legendary bassist John Entwistle.
The Who's London - An interactive feature offering the viewer a video tour of Who landmarks.
Trivia Games - Questions to test your knowledge with a prize of a newly mixed 5.1 rendering of the album version of "Who Are You" playing a video light/slide show and a long lost recording of Ringo Starr.
English Subtitles - Figuring out the lyrics the band is singing is one thing, but deciphering what they say while screaming over each other is whole other puzzle.
Widescreen anamorphic format
Number of discs: 2
DVD info from Amazon.com, posted July 19, 2003

Royal Albert Hall concert on CD
The Who's November 27, 2000 charity concert (with special guests) at the Royal Albert Hall will be issued as a 2-CD set on July 22, 2003. This concert is already out on DVD.

A Sneaky One
A remixed version of the Who's 2nd album A Quick One has been released without any promotion. For the first time the entire LP, except for "See My Way" is available on CD in true stereo in excellent sound quality. The American CD release of the disc did have the tracks in stereo, but had subpar sound quality, especially on "Heat Wave". The original CD remaster with bonus tracks had the entire original album in mono except for the first track, "Run Run Run". For the first time, "Barbara Ann" is available in stereo.
The remasted discs with the stereo mixes are identified with the following sticker:

The other way to identify the CD is by the catalog number printed on the inner ring of the CD itself. The corrected version with the stereo mixes is identified by "MCAD-11267SP". The first issue CD with mostly mono mixes of the "A Quick One" album is identified by MCAD11267 (which is printed in reverse mirror image).

Bassist and founding member John Entwistle dead at age 57
Days before they were due to play the opening show of their 2002 Summer tour of the U.S.A, bassist John Entwistle, died in his sleep of an apparent heart attack. The first two shows in Las Vegas and Irvine, CA have been cancelled, but The Who came back on July 1 at the Hollywood Bowl with a substitute bass player, Pino Palladino. Pino has played with Eric Clapton, Elton John and Tears For Fears.

First Who album, My Generation remixed into stereo!
update from Shel Talmy, June 7, 2002:
"I'm pleased to announce that I've now done all the mixes from the 3-track tapes to stereo and mastered them for both CD and the new SACD (Super Audio CD) formats, and the source for the masters was the stereo mixes I did to half inch analog tape running at 30 IPS.
It will be a double CD package and is scheduled for release on August 27, 2002.

Live at Leeds with Tommy
Deluxe 2 CD set of Live at Leeds with full Tommy performance is now out! Disc 2 contains the entire "Tommy" segment of the concert, while Disc 1 contains everything else. This was done to avoid breaking up the "Tommy" set between the 2 discs. Still missing is the Spoonful segment of "Shakin' All Over" and Pete's introduction to the long My Generation.

Quadrophenia Returns (first DVD release)
Are you a Mod or a Rocker? If you were a British teen in the early 1960s, no question could be more critical. Rock group The Who -- decidedly of the "mod" persuasion -- immortalized the clash between these two subcultures in their 1973 album Quadrophenia, which was transformed into a motion picture in 1979.The Franc Roddam-directed film stars Phil Daniels as Jimmy, a London mod struggling to find his identity. Acclaimed as one of the all-time greatest rock movies, Quadrophenia returns in September via DVD and VHS releases from Rhino Home Video. Both picture and soundtrack (which includes several Who classics) have been remastered to look and sound better than ever. The DVD features several fascinating extras, including the trailer, director's commentary, photos, trivia, discography/filmography, and more.

DVDs [eBay Search for Who DVDs]:
The Who at Kilburn 1977 (December 15, 1977) [includes London Coliseum: December 14, 1969]
DVD released: November 18, 2008
Amazon price $10.49 (Blu-Ray: $20.49)
DVD Planet price $16.22 (Blu-Ray: $19.47)

Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who
[includes Chicago concert (edited): December 8, 1979 in the deluxe (3-disc) edition only from Best Buy]
DVD released: November 6, 2007
Best Buy price (3-disc set) $27.99
DVD Planet price (2-disc set) $22.46

Who-20th Reunion Concert-The Vegas Job (October 29, 1999)
DVD released: November 7, 2006
DVD Planet price $8.42

Who's Better, Who's Best (1988)
DVD released: October 31, 2006
Amazon price $9.97

Classic Albums -Who's Next (1971)
DVD released: October 3, 2006 (1st edition DVD released: April 12, 2000)
DVD Planet price $8.36 (1st edition: $6.95)

Quadrophenia Live with special guests (1997)
DVD released: June 6, 2006
DVD Planet price $10.46

Tommy Live with special guests (August 24, 1989)
DVD released: June 6, 2006
DVD Planet price $10.46

Who-Live From Toronto (1982) [original video was "The Who Rock America '82"]
DVD released: September 12, 2006
Best Buy price $19.99

Tommy and Quadrophenia Live with friends (1989-1997)
DVD released: November 8, 2005
DVD Planet price $22.72

Live Aid (1985)
DVD released: November 16, 2004
DVD Planet price $25.97

Rolling Stones: Rock & Roll Circus (1968)
DVD released: October 12, 2004
Best Buy price $18.99

Live in Boston (2002)
DVD released: September 21, 2004
Best Buy price $17.99

Live at The Isle Of Wight Festival - 1970 (surround sound version)
DVD released: August 10, 2004
DVD Planet price $11.21

McVicar (1980) [starring Roger Daltrey]
DVD released: June 28, 2004 (PAL format only, Region 2 and 4)
Amazon U.K. price £5.87

The Kids Are Alright (1979)
DVD released: September 30, 2003
[OUT OF PRINT]

The Who Special Edition EP (1966, 1969) [features "I'm A Boy" and songs from the Tommy album in surround sound]
DVD released: March 25, 2003
DVD Planet price $8.95

Tommy [1975 movie]
DVD released: December 17, 2002
Amazon price $24.49 (Superbit version)

The Complete Monterrey Pop Festival (1967)
DVD released: November 12, 2002
DVD Planet price: $55.96

Live At The Royal Albert Hall (November 27, 2000)
DVD released: September 25, 2001
DVD Planet price $10.46

Quadrophenia (special edition) [1979 movie]
DVD released: March 21, 2001
[OUT OF PRINT]

Thirty Years of Maximum R&B Live (1994)
DVD released: January 23, 2001
[OUT OF PRINT]

Tommy [1975 movie]
DVD released: September 21, 1999
DVD Planet price $10.46 (standard version)

Woodstock (1969)
DVD released: August 22, 1997
[OUT OF PRINT]

links to other Who Pages:
The Who (official website)
The Who Webring
TheWho.net
>Baba O'Riley's Bootleg Page
>WhiteFang's Who Site
>bootleg index
>concert guide
>photo archive
WhoBoots Cover Art Database
TheWho.org
Adam Hirsch's My Who Page
Rich's Who Stuff
>Bootleg Who Recordings
Quadrophenia.net
Shel Talmy Productions
The Ultimate Who Collection
The Who-Lost Recordings 1964-1996
The Who In Concert! (John Bauer)
The Who Store
The Who This Month (Brian Cady)

Solo Who pages:
Pete Townshend (official site)
eelpie.com
The Ox - The John Entwistle Home Page (official page)
KeithMoon.com

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