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April 5th, 1969 - Mod no more! Melody Maker groups The Who with Led Zeppelin and Free as one of 'The heavy mob.' The article describes their sound under the new label 'heavy' rock, a label that will eventually mutate to 'heavy metal'


If you are unable to read the relevant text, the entry runs: "The heavy mob tend to stun their audiences with volume, violence and mass moodiness"
"THINKING back, it becomes apparent the Who were years ahead of their time. I can recall when it was the craze for bands like the Spencer Davis Group or Zoot Money's Big Roll Band to devote one number of their act as a kind of friendly send-up of the Who's violence-personified act. Their approach was a revolution that took the competition several moons to catch up and equal. Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle and Keith Moon between them set the nation back on its ears with a style that eschewed the normal group methods of creating excitement. Not for them an off-beat and solos in neat and orderly turn. Keith hammered his bass drums non-stop on all beats to the bar, and if occasionally the rest couldn't be heard above the noise, it wasn't for want of trying"
Chris Welch, who wrote that piece, went on to write for Kerrang! and later became the editor of Metal Hammer. Also related to this piece , Welch wrote several books including The Who: Teenage Wasteland (1995) and John Bonham: A Thunder of Drums (with Geoff Nicholls) in 2001.
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A variation on the 'Who's On First' routine

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1978 television advert for the 'Who Are You' LP

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1977 television advert for the compilation album 'The Story Of The Who'

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I have that on Vinyl.
Found it in a charity shop cheap before vinyl prices went into orbit.
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I have that on Vinyl.
Found it in a charity shop cheap before vinyl prices went into orbit.
It was the essential Who compilation album, until the 'Thirty Years of Maximum R&B' set was released in 1991

That's the one I would recommend to any new fan of the band

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Top 10 Songs by The Who | Classic Rock History

# 10 – Pinball Wizard

If you came of age in the mid to late seventies chances are the first time you heard The Who’s “Pinball Wizard,” it was Elton John’s version. Elton John had a tremendous hit with the song which stemmed from his role as the Pinball Wizard in the Hollywood motion picture of the Who’s Tommy album. While critics panned the Hollywood movie, they most certainly praised the iconic original album. The original Tommy record by the Who was released in 1969. It was the band’s fourth studio album. The song “Pinball Wizard,” was the first single released from the album.

# 9 – Bargain

The Who album Who’s Next easily belongs in the Top 10 Rock albums of all time list. There should be no argument or debate about it. Two of the albums tracks also deserve to be ranked way up high on the list of greatest rock songs of all time. The song “Bargain,” was the second track on the Who’s Next album. Roger Daltrey sang lead vocals on the verses while Pete Townshend sang lead vocals on the bridge.

# 8 – Who Are You

The Who closed out the seventies with one hell of an album. The Who’s Who Are You record was loaded with great rock cuts that spit in the face of the punk and new wave movements of the time period. While The Ramones, Blondie, Talking Heads and many more were trying to change the rock and roll landscape, The Who followed no one but themselves. The album was released in August of 1978. The band released the single “Who Are You,” a month before the album was released. As the album’s closing track, the arrangement and persona of the song seemed to be clearly inspired by the band’s anthem “Won’t Get Fooled Again.”

# 7 – I Can’t Explain

The Who’s “I Can’t Explain,” was the band’s first single release of their career. It’s hard to believe that the Who released “I Cant Explain,” over fifty-two years ago in the United States during the month of December in 1964. Although they had previously released a song called “Zoot Suit,” under the band’s name High Numbers, “I Cant Explain,” was the first official single released under the name The Who. The single release barely made the U.S. Billboard music chart’s Top 100 peaking at the No.93 position.

# 6 – I Can See For Miles

The classic song “I Can See For Miles,” is another one of those early great Who songs that clearly defined the British Invasion sound of the mid-1960’s. The song was released on the Who’s third studio album, The Who Sell Out. That album was released in December of 1967. The song I” Can See For Miles,” was the only single released from the album. Amazingly, it still remains the Who’s highest charting single of their career.

# 5 – Love Reign O’er Me

We could have easily filled this Top 10 Who Songs list entirely with tracks from the band’s masterpiece Quadrophenia. However our goal as a classic rock history site is to cover as much ground as we can without dragging you down in a sea of long lists and monotonous information. So we have chosen as wisely as we could. Picking only one or two songs from this amazing album is a pretty tough task. For our first choice we went with the breathtaking “Love Reign O’er Me.”

# 4- The Real Me

If young people who have grown up in the age of iPods and streaming could only get their hands on an original Quadrophenia album complete with the heavy booklet that came with the album, they would instantly start a revolution to ban all mp3s and return to a world of total vinyl. They just don’t release album packages like they used to. And yes I know what your thinking, they just don’t release music like this anymore either. You cant listen to the Who’s “The Real Me,” without realizing just how great this band really was, and how important their contributions were to rock and roll culture.

# 3- My Generation

As we get closer to the Number 1 position on our Top 10 Who songs list, it becomes more difficult to write anything original about these unbelievable rock classics. The Who’s “My Generation,” was released on their debut studio album My Generation in 1965. The song “My Generation,” was the first single released from the album and peaked at No. 74 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. However, the song was incredibly more successful in the U.K. falling just short of the No. 1 position landing in the No.2 spot on the U.K. music charts. It has become one of the most covered songs of the band’s catalog.

# 2- Won’t Get Fooled Again

There is classic rock and then there is CLASSIC ROCK. The Who’s Won’t Get Fooled Again is CLASSIC ROCK. We could argue that it’s the complete definition of Classic Rock. Its sad that we have to hear Roger’s classic scream at the beginning of every CSI episode, but Townshend has said he doesn’t care about our feelings and it’s his song so he can do with it whatever he pleases. That’s why we love Townshend and why we have songs like this amazing recording.

For the younger generation, we want you to know that the song closed out the amazing Who’s Next album. It was constantly played on FM radio in the 1970’s and continues to this day to be one of the most played classic rock songs in history. Its doesn’t get much better than this, or does it?

# 1- Baba O Reily

Well maybe it does. The Who’s “Baba O Reily,” is our choice for the Who’s greatest song on our Top 10 Who Songs list.It was the opening track on the classic Who’s Next album. Not only is the song our favorite Who song, it is what we believe to be the greatest rock and roll song of all time. Yeah! Bam! Boom! No, we are not getting carried away; the song defined the essence of pure rock and roll. The simple three chord pattern, the passionate filled vocal, the killer bass line, pulsating drums. and the loud in your face guitar work was almost too much to bare. When Roger sang “Sally Take My Hand,” the music’s momentum embraced the glory of youth in all its angst, despair and joy. That is Rock and Roll!
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Pete with a shredded hand after a concert in Oakland, California in April 1980

"I bash away at my guitar as though it were a veal escallop I’m trying to thin down. I break my nails, I tear flesh from my fingers. I make minor cuts. Then I swing my arm at high speed, and all the blood rushes to the tips of my fingers and pours out profusely under the centrifugal force. My hand always bleeds, but now I have a spray that stops the bleeding and the pain immediately."

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