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The Who’sClassic AlbumWho Are You: Super Deluxe Edition on 7CD + Blu-ray + Book Box Set. Features the Original album, Newly Remastered, Plus Demos, Out-takes, Tour Rehearsals and Studio Recordings Made for The Kids Are Alright Movie. Also Includes a 100-page Book With Extensive Notes, Previously Unpublished Photos, Memorabilia and More.

This extensive collection gives an unprecedented insight into how The Who made what was to be their final studio album with Keith Moon. The eight discs are housed in a 12″ by 12″ slipcase and include a new remastered version of the album, plus demos and out-takes from the Who Are You sessions as the band developed the songs. Also includes the 1977 Shepperton tour rehearsals, and the 1978 Shepperton studio recordings made for The Kids Are Alright movie. Includes 7 audio CDs, Blu-Ray and a 100-page hard back book with extensive sleeve notes by Matt Kent together with an insightful exclusive interview with Roger Daltrey covering the months preceding the album’s release, plus track-by-track details, and session notes, as well as sleeve notes by Steven Wilson on his remixes for Dolby Atmos. The book is lavishly illustrated with previously unpublished photographs, memorabilia, tape boxes and original print ads.

Sadly burdened with being the last studio recording to feature drummer Keith Moon and thus closing the chapter on The Who’s legendary original line-up, this 1978 release was also a major progression, not unlike what The Beatles and The Beach Boys undertook as they matured from their simple, rudimentary but still unforgettable early years.

In the three years following the release of Who By The Numbers, band members had undertaken solo projects and other individual interests. Finally reuniting after such an unusually long hiatus, they recorded Who Are You between late 1977 and early ’78, in a variety of London-area studios. Without a doubt, everyone in the world would have welcomed recycled Who akin to their first decade of hits, but simple, catchy rock riffs were to be superseded in more complex subjects and daring arrangements.

Pete Townshend’s observations of moving on and saying farewell (“Sister Disco”), the creative process (“Guitar and Pen”), FM radio and its banal recycled music (“Music Must Change”) and battles with alcohol (“Who Are You”) are some of his most poignant compositions. Bassist John Entwistle contributes three songs, the most on any one Who album, with “905,” “Had Enough” and “Trick Of The Light,” reflecting some of his finest, often-overlooked, work.

The album peaked at #2 on the pop chart in the U.S., most likely prevented from going #1 by the Grease soundtrack. The lone single released, the title song “Who Are You” would become a concert staple, often expanded into a jam of Townshend’s guitar heroics.

Features:

• Box Set
• 7CD’s
• Blu-ray
• Newly Remastered Original Album
• Demos, Out-takes, Tour Rehearsals and Studio Recordings Made for The Kids Are Alright Movie.
• 100-page hard back book with extensive sleeve notes, previously unpublished photographs, memorabilia, tape boxes and original print ads.