In May 1969, British Invasion band The Who released their rock opera “Tommy”. Featuring ‘Pinball Wizard’ and ‘Tommy, Can You Hear Me?’, the double album was hailed as the band’s breakthrough, catapulting them to stellar success.
Our sold-out anthology of images of the band on stage, The Who Live, includes photos from their subsequent 1969 tour of Tommy, which began in the UK in April and then travelled to North America in May and June. Five copies are now being made available, each signed by Ross Halfin and with a personal introduction written by Pete Townshend.
This remarkable limited edition charts the band’s performances from the early days in the Sixties through to Pete Townshend’s Lifehouse shows at Sadler’s Wells in London, with emphasis on the legendary tours of the Seventies when the band were labelled the greatest live rock ‘n’ roll band in the world.
Accompanying the photographs are observations from Ross Halfin and Matt Kent, as well as other featured photographers.
Never before has such a remarkable anthology of images from the world’s most celebrated photographers been assembled in one benchmark volume. This set of extraordinary photographs, mostly unpublished, includes the last shots of Keith Moon playing live. Masterprinted to the highest standards of craftmanship, this superb edition is essential for all fans of The Who as well as collectors of fine art books on modern music.
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