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Last modified on Mon 26 Apr 2021 06.04 EDT These days, we think of the period between 1965 and 1967 as one of white-hot musical progress, a dizzying three-year period during which innovation followed innovation, a succession of totemic albums and singles were released and pop music changed irrevocably. But, as Jon Savage’s superb book 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded made clear, not everyone at the time was impressed with how things were going. Savage’s research revealed a succession of contemporary naysayers, devoted to “ringing the death knell” as he put it: 1966 â€�...

Open share drawer Celebrated with an elaborate new box set, their 1967 pop-art experiment remains the band’s dark-horse favorite, when they were scrappy enough to laugh at themselves but strong enough to write the music that would define their career. The Who’s early catalog offers a crash course in what to look for in any worthy classic rock discography: the cinematic song cycle, the tour-de-force live album, the music-as-healing-force-of-the-universe masterpiece, the mythologically overambitious lost album, the rarities comp that rivals the greatest hits set. It is a fitting legac...

Pete Townshend Says He Fooled Himself Over 1967 Flop Single Despite reaching the Top 10 in the U.S. and elsewhere, the only single to be lifted from The Who Sell Out fell short of its writer’s expectations. He’d come to believe it would become his greatest success story. “Kit Lambert, who was our manager and my songwriting and composing mentor back then… His godfather was William Walton, the English classical composer,” Townshend told Rolling Stone in a recent interview. “And when he heard ‘I Can See for Miles,’ he wrote Kit a letter thinking that Kit had written the song…...

The Who are set to premiere the new Classic Albums documentary on their 1967 album, 'The Who Sell Out,' with a livestream special later this month.

"Classic Albums" documentary "The Who Sell Out". THE WHO is one of the most influential rock bands of the 20th century with over 100 million records sold worldwide, and the documentary explores its groundbreaking record in detail, including a deep dive into the original multi-track recordings, as well as brand-new, exclusive interviews with Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, and album producers. Fans can tune in to the free livestream on Thursday, April 22 at 6 p.m. PT / 9 p.m. ET at nugs.net/thewho. The episode will be available to stream on demand via Nugs.net, the Nugs.net YouTube page an...