That four year period of Tommy, The Lifehouse (Who’s Next) and Quadrophenia, was probably the single greatest creative period anyone had in rock history. Pete had to be slightly mad to come up with that kind of output. And he pretty much was ready to give it up after Quadrophenia.
“That four year period of Tommy, The Lifehouse (Who’s Next) and Quadrophenia, was probably the single greatest creative period anyone had in rock history. Pete had to be slightly mad to come up with that kind of output. And he pretty much was ready to give it up after Quadrophenia”
No doubt, and the icing on the cake 1970’s Live at Leeds. Certainly one of the best live LP’s ever (highly recommend the full concert extended version) And the newish Live at Hull isn’t bad either. Recorded the night after Leeds. The tapes sat in a can for 40+ years as it was thought the entire recording was ruined as the Entwistles Bass track was missing due to a Sound Enginner / Roadie muck up. Well it turns out it was only missing on the first four songs of the show. What to do? Well the Who were playing very tight at the time so they just dubbed in John’s Bass track from the Leeds Gig to get the Hull show released.
And don’t forget Live at Leeds. Yeah live albums usually don’t count, but especially once we got the extended CD version, or even better the more recent super extended version with all of Tommy, that is a “just damn” live album.