by The Who
Release Date: 07 December 2021
Format: Box Set Vinyl
Label: Polydor
£99.99
The Who Live At Leeds Limited Ultimate Collectors' Edition CD/LP/7" Box Set
Overview:
Following on the heels of the success of the rock opera Tommy and the band’s grandstand appearance at the Woodstock Festival, when released in 1970, Live At Leeds unwittingly documented the Who at the peak of their powers, their shows now stretching up to two and a half hours without a break and containing Tommy as their centrepiece.
Except it should have been very different. The original intention was to release the recording from the Hull City Hall performance the following night after Leeds as the live album. The recording from Leeds, the first gig of the tour, was largely set up as a back-up in case there were any problems with the Hull recording. Suffice to say, upon listening to the tapes it was thought that John Entwistle’s bass was missing from the Hull recording. With little they could do to repair the tapes in those days, the band went with the Leeds recording for release instead, despite preferring the Hull performance. Now years later the Hull tapes were revisited and it was discovered that because the first reel consisting of four tracks had no bass,everyone had assumed that the whole show had no bass and didn’t listen to any more of it,but in fact the rest of the gig was complete. Through the wonders of modern technology, however, the full Hull recording has been repaired by flying in Entwistle’s bass tracks from the Leeds recording to repair the Hull tapes and is now available in it’s entirety for the first time ever.
This new edition of one of the most important live rock albums ever contains:
• Two CDs containing the full Leeds show from 14 February 1970 recorded for the album including the complete performance of Tommy
• For the first time ever--two CDs containing the Who’s complete performance from Hull
• A heavyweight vinyl reproduction of the original six-track album as it was released in 1970
• A new 60-page hard-back, colour book containing rare photos, memorabilia from the original release (replica contracts, letters, poster gig list, photos etc) and liner notes detailing the history of the album.
• A replica 7" single--"Summertime Blues / Heaven & Hell" with colour sleeve.
• A classic Pete Townshend poster
• Housed in a hard-back box with cover artwork reproducing the original black stamped vinyl first UK pressing which.
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Format: LP Double Vinyl
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