Who- Live at Leeds @55- Pete Townshend 5-4

The contrast between the 1969 worldwide hit rock opera Tommy by England’s The Who and the release that followed in May 1970, Live at Leeds, could not be more stark. “Live at Leeds was meant to look like a bootleg,” chuckles The Who songwriter/guitarist Pete Townshend. “I used to suddenly wake up on stage with The Who as one leg of this crazed stallion, leaping, marching through a field like a Sherman tank!” Mixed metaphors aside, by the time the band rolled into Leeds University, Roger Daltrey, Keith Moon, John Entwistle, and Townshend “had become this incredible machine.”

Join Pete Townsend and the late John Entwistle In the Studio the week of May 4 on the album’s fifty-fifth anniversary for the memories of performing and recording The Who Live at Leeds, the album Rolling Stone magazine readers ranked as the greatest live album of all time! -Redbeard