The Who : Who's Next ( Deluxe Edition )
Who's Next
is the fifth
studio album
by English
rock band
The Who.
It developed from
the aborted
project,
a multi-media rock opera
written by the group's
Pete Townshend
as a follow-up to
the band's
1969 album
Tommy.
The project was
cancelled due to its
complexity and conflicts
with Kit Lambert,
the band's manager,
but Townshend
was persuaded to
record the songs as
a straightforward
studio album.
The Who
recorded
Who's Next
with assistance from
recording engineer
Glyn Johns.
After producing the song
"Won't Get Fooled Again"
in the
Rolling Stones Mobile Studio,
they relocated to
Olympic Studios
to record and mix
most of the album's
remaining songs.
They made prominent use
of the synthesizer
on the album,
particularly on
"Won't Get Fooled Again"
and
"Baba O'Riley",
which were both
released as singles.
The cover photo
was shot by
Ethan Russell
and made reference to
the monolith
in the 1968 film
2001: A Space Odyssey,
as it featured
group members
having urinated
against a concrete piling
protruding from
a slag heap.
Who's Next
was an
immediate success
when it was released in
August 1971.
It has since been
viewed by
many critics
as the Who's
best record
and one of the
greatest albums
of all time.
It was reissued
on CD
several times
with additional songs
originally intended for
Lifehouse.
The cover artwork
shows a photograph,
taken at
Easington Colliery,
of the band
apparently having just
urinated on a large
concrete piling
protruding from
a slag heap.
The decision to shoot
the picture came
from Entwistle
and Moon
discussing
Stanley Kubrick
and the film
2001: A Space Odyssey.
According to photographer
Ethan Russell,
most of the
band members
were unable to urinate,
so rainwater
was tipped from an
empty film canister
to achieve the
desired effect.
The rear cover
showed the band
backstage
at De Montfort Hall,
Leicester,
among a
debris of furniture.
In 2003,
the television channel
VH1
named
Who's Next's
cover one of
the greatest
album covers
of all time.
Other suggestions
for the cover included
the group urinating
against a
Marshall Stack
and an
overweight
nude woman
with the
Who's faces
in place of her genitalia.
An alternative cover
featuring
Moon dressed in
black lingerie
and a brown wig,
holding a whip,
was later used
for the inside art
for the
1995
and
2003
CD releases.
Some of
the photographs
taken during
these sessions
were later used
as part of
Decca's United States
promotion of the album
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