THE WHO collection, double album, gatefold, SMR 570

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The band’s instrumental interplay is nothing short of electrifying and Michael McInnerney’s game-changing cover art stunning. The cover is presented as part of a triptych-style fold-out cover, and the booklet contained abstract artwork that outlined the story. As of September 2021, the album has earned 2,539,000 album-equivalent units and has sold 267,000 copies in the United States.

Kicking off in impressive style with Slip Kid, things rapidly freewheel downhill as Townshend takes his Dr Marten-ed foot way too far off the gas. Recording on the album began in September 1968, but took six months to complete as material needed to be arranged and re-recorded in the studio.denotes albums that were released but did not chart, albums not released in a particular territory, or chart information is not available.

In October 1995, the rock group Phish, with an additional four-man horn section, performed Quadrophenia in its entirety as their second Halloween musical costume at the Rosemont Horizon in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont, Illinois. Daltrey objected to this and believed the Who's performances should only have the four core members. Pinball Wizard swiftly captured the public’s imagination and Townshend’s grand, Kit Lambert-encouraged operatic vision gradually came to full fruition in the live arena, saved The Who financially and broadened rock’s scope with an ambitious high concept that brought sixties pop to adulthood and presaged seventies prog.

His parents take him to a respected doctor ("There's a Doctor"), who determines that the boy's disabilities are psychosomatic rather than physical.

The Beatles' White Album, released in 1968, showed a wide variety of musical styles that the group thought would be difficult to cram onto a single LP. Although some tracks were recorded in London and Los Angeles, it was during sessions at Nellcote, a villa in the south of France, that the mythology of Exile On Main St. It's a story about a kid that's born deaf, dumb and blind and what happens to him throughout his life.In the summer of 1971, in the villa’s basement, the band worked the graveyard shift, led by a strung-out Keith Richards and entertaining similarly inclined visitors including William Burroughs and Gram Parsons. As recording was near completion, McInnerney received a number of cassettes with completed songs and a brief outline for the story, which he immediately recognised as being based on Baba's teachings. The album has sold 1 million copies and has been certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.