{"id":697643,"date":"2026-07-18T01:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T01:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/697643\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T01:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T01:36:13","slug":"wont-get-fooled-again-four-who-classics-revisited-by-analogue-productions-on-vinyl-sacd-reel-to-reel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/697643\/","title":{"rendered":"Won’t Get Fooled Again: Four Who Classics Revisited by Analogue Productions on Vinyl, SACD, Reel-to-Reel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What\u2019s next for Analogue Productions?\u00a0 How about Who\u2019s Next?\u00a0 The label has announced that four classic titles from The Who will be receiving the deluxe audiophile treatment across various formats including UHQR Vinyl, 45 RPM LPs, hybrid SACDs (playable on all CD players), and Ultra Tape Reel-To-Reel Formats.\u00a0 My Generation and Live at Leeds arrive next week, July 24, while Tommy and Who\u2019s Next will follow (date TBD).<\/p>\n

These releases have been sourced from the original analog master tapes and mastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering (with SACD editions mastered to DSD).\u00a0 Each vinyl release is pressed at Quality Record Pressings and housed in a deluxe Stoughton tip-on gatefold jacket with scuff-resistant matte finish.\u00a0 These reissues present the original album sequences only.<\/p>\n

While it originally came out in December 1965 in the band\u2019s native U.K., The Who\u2019s classic debut LP\u00a0My Generation\u00a0didn\u2019t hit U.S. shores until April 1966 (as\u00a0The Who Sings My Generation).\u00a0 While it didn\u2019t set the charts on fire in the U.S., the album went to No. 5 in the U.K. and Pete Townshend\u2019s anthemic title song went to No. 2.\u00a0 Also featuring such tracks as \u201cThe Kids Are Alright\u201d and \u201cA Legal Matter\u201d (as well as covers of James Brown and Bo Diddley), My Generation has since been considered among the finest rock debuts and catapulted Townshend, Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle, and Keith Moon to superstardom. It will be available as a 180-gram 45 RPM 2LP set, Hybrid Mono SACD, and Ultra Tape reel-to-reel edition.<\/p>\n

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Tommy, The Who\u2019s fourth studio album, effectively added the phrase \u201crock opera\u201d into the lexicon.\u00a0 Chief songwriter Townshend had previously experimented with extended song forms, most notably on 1966\u2019s \u201cA Quick One While He\u2019s Away\u201d from the A Quick One album.\u00a0 But Tommy, produced by Kit Lambert, crystallized Townshend\u2019s lofty ambitions into an electrifying work that was as creative as it was accessible.\u00a0 With Roger Daltrey in the title role of the \u201cdeaf, dumb and blind boy,\u201d Tommy combined muscular rock riffs with a rich array of characters that made the work immediately appealing to directors of both stage and screen.\u00a0 Cinematic auteur Ken Russell brought Tommy to life in an unforgettable 1975 film version, and Des McAnuff worked with Townshend to give Tommy, Captain Walker, Cousin Kevin, Uncle Ernie and the rest stage immortality in 1993 via the Broadway musical The Who\u2019s Tommy.\u00a0 Those weren\u2019t the only indelible incarnations of Tommy, though.\u00a0 The band\u2019s Woodstock performance has gone down in history, and other memorable versions include the original 1970 Seattle Opera staging (with the young Bette Midler as the Acid Queen!) and Lou Reizner\u2019s 1972 symphonic concert event, preserved on its own two-LP set.\u00a0 Now, the original album (which went to No. 2 in the U.K. and No. 4 in the U.S.) gets the Analogue Productions treatment as a UHQR box set, pressed on 200-gram Clarity Vinyl, as well as on hybrid stereo SACD and Ultra Tape reel-to-reel set.<\/p>\n

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The band\u2019s first concert album, Live at Leeds (1970) remains one of the most incendiary of the genre.\u00a0 Though the original single-LP iteration boasted just six songs, the record\u2019s grooves could barely contain the energy captured at the University of Leeds in February 1970.\u00a0 The LP\u2019s in-your-face, hard-driving, and altogether aggressive sound might have come as a surprise to those who only knew the band from its studio albums; in the place of the elegant intricacy of the Tommy album was a gritty, explosive document of heavy R&B at its heaviest.\u00a0 (It was no mistake that Townshend included three covers on the album: Mose Allison\u2019s \u201cYoung Man Blues,\u201d Jerry Capeheart and Eddie Cochran\u2019s \u201cSummertime Blues,\u201d and Johnny Kidd\u2019s \u201cShakin\u2019 All Over\u201d).\u00a0 With a bootleg-style cover that barely hinted at the excitement underneath, Live at Leeds was a record that launched a thousand bands \u2013 and set the bar high, too.\u00a0 A top five album on both sides of the Atlantic, it returns as a 180-gram 45 RPM 2LP set, Hybrid Stereo SACD, and Ultra Tape reel-to-reel edition.<\/p>\n

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Lastly comes Who\u2019s Next \u2013 the band\u2019s fifth studio album and a towering if controversial masterwork borne out of the Lifehouse multimedia project.\u00a0 Although eight of the nine songs on Who\u2019s Next were written by Townshend for Lifehouse, its story was a much looser one than Tommy \u2013 but its songs no less majestic.\u00a0 The Who arguably outdid themselves on the likes of \u201cBaba O\u2019Riley,\u201d \u201cBargain,\u201d \u201cBehind Blue Eyes,\u201d and \u201cWon\u2019t Get Fooled Again,\u201d and Who\u2019s Next went to No. 1 in the U.K. (their only U.K. Number One album) and No. 4 stateside.\u00a0 (In 2023, The Who issued a massive box set<\/a> exploring the musical journey from Lifehouse, or Life House, to Who\u2019s Next.)\u00a0 It will be pressed on 200-gram Clarity Vinyl for the UHQR box set treatment.<\/p>\n

All four of these audiophile titles can be pre-ordered now directly from Analogue Productions<\/a>, with My Generation and Live at Leeds due to begin shipping on or around July 24.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUY NOW FROM ANALOGUE PRODUCTIONS What\u2019s next for Analogue Productions?\u00a0 How about Who\u2019s Next?\u00a0 The label has announced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-697643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}