The Who

The Who – The Who With Orchestra: Live At Wembley (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:44:59 minutes | 1,30 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

On 6th July 2019, The Who headlined a sell out show at the world famous Wembley Stadium in London for the first time in forty years. Performing many of their greatest hits, the show featured the band as they’ve never been seen before, accompanied by the 57-piece Isobel Griffiths Ltd orchestra.

The Who With Orchestra Live At Wembley re-lives that iconic show. Available as a triple black vinyl 3LP set with a booklet showcasing unseen photos from the show.

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The Who – The Who Sell Out (Super Deluxe Edition) (1967/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 05:13:43 minutes | 5,8 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

The Who‘s 1967 album The Who Sell Out will be reissued as a seven-disc super deluxe edition box set in April. The album was originally planned by Pete Townshend and the band’s managers (Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp) as a loose concept album with jingles and commercials linking the songs. This approach was partly because the record label were demanding a new record and Townshend felt as if he didn’t have enough songs!

In the end, rather than actually going as far as to sell advertising space on the album, the band opted to write their own jingles, with a nod to pirate radio stations and an increasingly consumerist society. The iconic sleeve plays an important part of the overriding concept and was created by David King who was the art director at the Sunday Times, and Roger Law (yes, the guy who invented UK TV’s Spitting Image show, in the 1980s).

Only The Who’s third album, The Who Sell Out is regarded highly and features the transatlantic top ten hit ‘I Can See For Miles’.

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The Who – The Who at Live Aid (Live at Wembley Stadium, 13th July 1985) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 22:38 minutes | 174 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © The Band Aid Trust

Live Aid was a benefit concert held on Saturday 13 July 1985, as well as a music-based fundraising initiative. The original event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for relief of the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia. Billed as the “global jukebox”, the event was held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London, UK, attended by about 72,000 people and John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, US, attended by 89,484 people.

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The Who – Who’s Next {Deluxe Edition} (1971/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 155:54 minutes | 3,15 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover | Source: HDTracks | © Geffen Records

Who’s Next (Deluxe Edition) is British rock band The Who’s fifth studio album, originally released in 1971. The record hit number 1 on the UK Top 40 Albums and peaked at number 4 on the US Billboard 200 chart in 1971. The record produced hit songs “Won’t Get Fooled Again”, “Behind Blue Eyes” and “Baby O’Riley”. Who’s Next originated from songwriter Pete Townshend’s multi-media rock opera Lifehouse. (more…)

The Who – WHO (Deluxe & Live At Kingston) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:37:35 minutes | 2,09 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Polydor Records

The Who will release a new version of last year’s album WHO featuring an updated version of “Beads On One String” newly remixed by Pete Townshend and acoustic tracks from the band’s only live shows of 2020.The songs on the deluxe version of WHO were recorded in Kingston on Valentine’s Day this year exactly 50 years to the day since The Who’s seminal show at Leeds which became the infamous live album `Live At Leeds’. The 2020 Deluxe Edition 2CD also includes fold out artwork from the album.

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The Who – WHO (Deluxe) (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 57:00 minutes | 1,21 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front cover | © Polydor Records

The Who has one of the greatest rock legacies in music history, they’re one of the all-time great live bands, have sold over 100 million records world including 9 US & 10 UK top ten albums and 14 UK top ten singles in a career spanning six decades.

Now Fifty-five years after they made their first recordings, The Who is back with their first new album in thirteen years entitled WHO due for release on 22nd November 2019 and is preceded by BALL AND CHAIN.

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The Who – Who Are You (1978/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:01 minutes |  1,23 GB | Genre: Rock
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© Geffen Records | Recorded: October 1977 – April 1978 Ramport Studios, Battersea; Olympic Studios; RAK Studios, St John’s Wood and Pete Townshend’s own studio in Goring-on-Thames

By the end of the ’70s, the original version of the Who was reaching the end of its tether (Keith Moon was nearing the end of his life). „Who Are You“ can be seen as something of a swan song for the spirit that ignited the rock & roll juggernaut that was the Who in its prime. The increased prominence of synthesizers here (the electronic flavoring of the title track recalls ‘Baba O’Riley’) points towards the direction the post-Moon ’80s version of the band would take. Instead of casting aspersions on socio-political ills, Townshend was casting glances askance at current musical trends (‘Sister Disco’) and his own occupation (‘Guitar and Pen’). Entwistle’s bass still rumbles melodically through the tunes in the grand style, and Daltrey’s wounded-beast roar is at its most impassioned on such songs as ‘Had Enough.’ The end of an era was just around the corner, but the band blazed away regardless, making WHO ARE YOU the last must-have Who album.

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The Who – The Who Sell Out (1967/2015) [Stereo]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time – 1:21:53 minutes | 1,72 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download |  Source: HDTracks | Artwork: Front cover | © Geffen Records

The Who Sell Out is the third studio album by The Who and was released in 1967. A concept album imitating a pirate radio broadcast, including actual commercials that the Who made during that period of their career. The album peaked at #48 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart in 1968 and was certified Silver in the UK. (more…)

The Who – The Who Hits 50 (Deluxe) (2014/2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:35:18 minutes | 1,79 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front cover | © UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)

Who Hits 50 is the definitive 2CD collection of the band’s greatest tracks from their very first recordings as The High Numbers right up to the present day with the brand new track Be Lucky – their first new material in eight years.

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The Who – The Who by Numbers (1975/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 00:50:12 | 1,08 GB | Genre: Rock
Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks | Digital Booklet | © Geffen Records

The Who’s seventh studio album, The Who By Numbers, was originally released in 1975 and quickly received international acclaim. The album peaked at number 7 on the UK charts and made it to number 8 on the U.S. Billboard 200 album chart. The Who By Numbers features titles “Slip Kid”, “Dreaming from the Waist” and hit single “Squeeze Box” that made it to number 16 on the U.S. Billboard Pop Singles and 10 on the UK Singles Chart.

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The Who – Tommy (1969) [Super Deluxe ‘2014]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time ~ 3:27:53 minutes | 4.47 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks  | © Geffen Records

Tommy, The Who’s defining, breakthrough concept album — a full-blown rock opera about a deaf, dumb and blind boy that launched the band to international superstardom, was originally released in May 1969. The Who were at a career crossraods, they were known mainly as a singles band but this project launched them as a serious ‘albums band’ and has now sold over 20 million copies as well as regularly turning up in lists of the most influential albums of all time. Tommy is now available as a new Super Deluxe Edition. (more…)

The Who – Quadrophenia (1973) [Super Deluxe ‘2014]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time ~ 3:06:38 minutes | 3.86 GB | Genre: Rock
Official Digital Download – Source: HDTracks  | © Geffen Records

Quadrophenia is The Who’s landmark rock opera originally released in 1973. The opera revolves around the happenings, socially and psychologically, of an English teenager during 1965. Upon its release the album peaked at number 2 in both the US and UK charts, featuring hit singles “5.15” “Love, Reign O’er Me” and “The Real Me”. (more…)

The Who – My Generation (1965/2014) MONO
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz  | Time – 01:10:13 minutes | 941 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download – Source: Qobuz | Front Cover | © Geffen Records

My Generation is the debut album by The Who and was released in 1965 to great acclaim. Hailed by critics as one of the best rock albums of all time, it included hit songs such as “My Generation” and “The Kids Are Alright”.

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The Who – My Generation (1965/2014) [Deluxe Edition}
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 91:39 minutes | 1,88 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Master, Official Digital Download |  Source: HDTracks | Artwork: Front cover | © Geffen Records

The legendary debut album by one of rock’s greatest bands is finally remixed, expanded and seriously updated. Released as The Who Sings My Generation in the U.S. with one track change months after being issued in the U.K. as simply My Generation, this classic album has never been previously released in real stereo anywhere and has never been remastered from the original masters. With the release of this special 2 CD Deluxe Edition, these problems are resolved, and the package has now been expanded from its original twelve tracks to 30. There are 6 previously unreleased tracks, and the album’s minimal graphics have been expanded exponentially and include three sets of liner notes. (more…)