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The Who's Legendary WHO'S NEXT Remastered and Expanded
Into Two-CD DELUXE EDITION With Previously Unreleased
Studio Recordings and the Official Debut of a Famed
1971 Concert 

LOS ANGELES, March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the great
albums of rock 'n' roll, The Who's 1971 landmark WHO'S
NEXT has been remastered from an original master for
the first time in the digital era and expanded with
previously unreleased studio recordings and a heralded
1971 concert not only officially issued for the first
time but with a remix that will have classic rock fans
rockin'.

Disc One of the two-CD WHO'S NEXT (DELUXE EDITION)
(MCA/UME), released March 25, 2003, presents the album
remastered via an original master from the board
mixdown for the first time in the digital age. 
Previous reissues were derived from secondary masters
or, as with the 1995 reissue, new remixes. Added to
the masterpieces "Won't Get Fooled Again," "Behind
Blue Eyes," "Bargain," "Going Mobile," "My Wife," "The
Song Is Over" and "Baba O'Riley," Disc One also boasts
recordings from earlier New York sessions (among whose
guest artists were Leslie West and Al Kooper)
including never-before-issued alternate renditions of
remaining album tracks "Love Ain't For Keeping" and
"Getting In Tune."

The other recordings from those sessions -- an
alternate "Won't Get Fooled Again," a cover of Marvin
Gaye's "Baby Don't Do It" and the original versions of
"Behind Blue Eyes" and "Pure And Easy" -- were heard
on the expanded, single-CD 1995 reissue after the
multitrack masters of the latter three were retrieved
from a bootleg project.  All of the recordings have
now been remixed for WHO'S NEXT (DELUXE EDITION).

"Pure And Easy" was the seed for the never-realized
Lifehouse project, a sci-fi film/theatre event/double
album/concert/rock manifesto which was to follow The
Who's revolutionary rock opera Tommy.  In the DELUXE
EDITION liner notes, a reminiscence by Pete Townshend
and an essay by John Atkins recall how Lifehouse
evolved into WHO'S NEXT.

Crucial was an amazing performance at London's Young
Vic Theatre in front of a small invited audience on
April 26, 1971.  Disc Two culls from that concert's 14
selections, 12 of which have only been released on
bootlegs.  Now properly remixed and mastered, versions
of "Won't Get Fooled Again," "Behind Blue Eyes,"
"Bargain," "Love Ain't For Keeping," "Pure And Easy"
and "Getting In Tune" are joined by "I Don't Even Know
Myself," "My Generation," "Young Man Blues," a cover
of Jr. Walker & The All Stars' "(I'm A) Road Runner"
and songs whose studio takes would be heard on 1974's
Odds And Sods -- "Time Is Passing," "Naked Eye," "Too
Much Of Anything" and "Water."

WHO'S NEXT, the first major album to use programmed
synthesizers and sequencing, and sporting the ultimate
rock attitude album cover, found Roger Daltrey laying
down one of the most commanding vocal performances in
rock, Townshend confirming his status as both genius
and master guitarist, and late bassist John Entwistle
and drummer Keith Moon offering tour de forces.  WHO'S
NEXT (DELUXE EDITION) is vintage Who -- and yet The
Who like never heard before.


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