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1 Baba O'Riley
Piano – Pete Townshend
Producer [Violin Produced By] – Keith Moon
Violin – Dave Arbus
Written-By – Pete Townshend
5:08
2 Bargain
Written-By – Pete Townshend
5:32
3 Love Ain't For Keeping
Written-By – Pete Townshend
2:10
4 My Wife
Piano – John Entwistle
Written-By – John Entwistle
3:40
5 The Song Is Over
Piano – Nicky Hopkins
Written-By – Pete Townshend
6:13
6 Getting In Tune
Piano – Nicky Hopkins
Written-By – Pete Townshend
4:50
7 Going Mobile
Written-By – Pete Townshend
3:42
8 Behind Blue Eyes
Written-By – Pete Townshend
3:41
9 Won't Get Fooled Again
Written-By – Pete Townshend
8:32
10 Pure And Easy
Written-By – Pete Townshend
4:19
11 Baby Don't You Do It
Lead Guitar – Leslie West
Written-By – Edward Holland, Jr. / Lamont Dozier / Brian Holland*
5:13
12 Naked Eye
Written-By – Pete Townshend
5:22
13 Water
Written-By – Pete Townshend
6:25
14 Too Much Of Anything
Piano – Nicky Hopkins
Written-By – Pete Townshend
4:24
15 I Don't Even Know Myself
Written-By – Pete Townshend
4:54
16 Behind Blue Eyes
Organ – Al Kooper
Written-By – Pete Townshend
3:25
Phonographic Copyright ? – MCA Records, Inc.
Copyright © – MCA Records, Inc.
Distributed By – Uni Distribution Corp.
Published By – Towser Tunes, Inc.
Published By – Fabulous Music Ltd.
Published By – ABKCO Music, Inc.
Published By – Red Hot Music (4)
Published By – Stone Agate Music
Recorded At – Olympic Studios
Recorded At – Stargroves
Recorded By – Rolling Stones Mobile
Recorded At – Record Plant, N.Y.C.
Recorded At – Young Vic Theatre, London
Recorded At – Eel Pie Studios
Mixed At – Olympic Studios
Remixed At – Revolution Studios
Remastered At – Revolution Studios
Manufactured By – UNI (8)
Bass Guitar, Brass, Vocals – John Entwistle
Design [Original Vinyl Sleeve Design] – Kosh*
Design, Art Direction – Richard Evans (7)
Drums, Percussion – Keith Moon
Executive-Producer – Bill Curbishley, Chris Charlesworth, Robert Rosenberg
Executive-Producer [Original Executive Producers] – Chris Stamp, Kit Lambert, Pete Kameron
Guitar, Electric Organ [VCS3 Organ], Synthesizer [A.R.P. Synthesizer], Vocals – Pete Townshend
Liner Notes – John Atkins (7), Pete Townshend
Management – Bill Curbishley, Trinifold Management Ltd.*
Mixed By [Remixed], Remastered By – Andy MacPherson, Jon Astley
Photography By – Alec Byrne, Chris Walter, Harry Goodwin (2), Michael Putland, Photofeatures Int.*, Retna Pictures*, Star File
Photography By [Front & Back Cover Photography] – Ethan A. Russell*
Producer [Associate Producer] – Glyn Johns (tracks: 1 to 9, 14)
Producer [Original Recording Produced By] – The Who (tracks: 1 to 9, 12 to 15)
Producer [Produced By] – Kit Lambert (tracks: 10, 11, 16)
Reissue Producer [Reissue Produced By] – Jon Astley
Vocals – Roger Daltrey
Issued in clear standard jewel case with 24-page booklet.
Back cover:
Tracks 10, 11, 13 and 16: Previously unreleased
? 1995, © 1995, 1971 MCA Records, Inc.
Tracks 1 to 9 from the original 1971 LP. "Who's Next" was originally released as Track 2408 102 on August 25, 1971. It reached #1 in the U.K. Released in the U.S. as Decca 79182 on August 14, 1971, it reached #4.
Tracks 10, 11, 13, and 16 are previously unreleased.
Track 12 from the box set Thirty Years Of Maximum R&B.
Track 14 from the 1974 Odds & Sods LP.
Track 15 is the B side to 1971 single Won't Get Fooled Again.
Track recording details from booklet:
1, 4, 7: Recorded at Olympic in May 1971.
2: The most electrifying of at least nine different takes recorded at Olympic on April 12, and June 5, 18, & 19, 1971.
3: Originally recorded in New York on March 17, 1971; reworked with acoustic guitars at Olympic in May, 1971.
5: Completed at Olympic on May 11, 1971.
6: Initially recorded in New York on March 18, 1971, as 'I'm In Tune'; The final retitled version was completed at Olympic on June 7, 1971.
8: Second version recorded at Olympic.
9: First recorded (then rejected) in New York on March 16, 1971; worked on at Stargroves with The Rolling Stones Mobile studio in April, 1971.
10: Original version recorded at the Record Plant, New York, on March 17, 1971; taken from New York to be mixed at Olympic.
11: Recorded at the Record Plant, New York on March 16, 1971.
12, 13: Recorded live at the Young Vic on April 26, 1971.
14: Completed at Olympic on April 12, 1971.
15: Recorded at Pete's own Eel Pie Studios in 1970.
16: Original version recorded at the Record Plant in New York, on March 18, 1971.
Remixed and remastered at Revolution Studios.
Sequenced on Sadie Hard Disk.
Track publishers:
1 to 3, 5 to 10, 12 to 16: Towser Tunes, Inc. / Fabulous Music Ltd. / ABKCO Music, Inc.
4: Red Hot Music.
11: Stone Agate Music