The crowd cheers and the cowbells kick off the jam. Go run a bath and light some candles, pour the wine and revel in this masterpiece. A better way to spend a quarter of an hour is difficult to discern. It soars and dives with power and grace it almost becomes a parody of the whole Tommy album.īut it’s superb. The Who – credit – Jim Summaria / CC BY-SA It probably gets on the podium.Īnd one of the main reasons for that is the 15-minute version of what is ostensibly My Generation, but in reality is a medley of that song, with added extracts from the Tommy album. We reckon Thin Lizzy’s Live and Dangerous or the The Ramones’ It’s Alive take that particular Gold and Silver.īut, there’s no doubt, Live At Leeds is up there. They were a damn fine band.Īnd we’re here to talk about an album that many commentators have said is the best live album ever recorded. We raise all this because it’s not entirely clear where The Who fit into the landscape. Such was his hatred for rock, most of it merited the “heavy” moniker and a swift descent into hell for anyone who even dared even to think of putting a needle on an Ian Gillan album. If our then head teacher had come across Neurosisor Godeater, then we think his head would have literally exploded. They weren’t exactly Judas Priest or Black Sabbath or Deep Purple.Ĥ0 Years of Punk Rock: Has Rock n Roll struck its final chords? We’re also fully aware that The Who would not be everybody’s idea of “heavy rock”. And early Police were a decent band, but we digress. But he does do it pretty well – let’s give him that. Yes, we know, Sting plays a significant part. Quadrophenia is the musical equivalent of a peace time war film, with the mods and rockers all converging on Brighton beach for the battle. The Who, of course inhabited a similar, if somewhat, earlier age. We weren’t really arsed if you wanted to smell like a hippy dope shop. We couldn’t really see what difference it made what kind of music people listened to. Well, we thought it was weird at the time. Which seemed an odd offence in the days when the rock kids were often told to go home and get theirs cut before coming back.īut that was the weird world in which we grew up. Our particular leaning as a teenager was punk, and we did once get hauled up before the head teacher for having had our hair cut too short. Teenage years are, after all designed for rebelling. Like most attempts at stemming a tide, it was a policy that was spectacularly unsuccessful.Įven though the sanction for having a whiff of patchouli oil about your person was usually a three day suspension, the kids with long hair and flares were not much deterred. The Who’s classic album, Live At Leeds turns 50 this year, Getintothis’ Peter Goodbody looks back at a game changer.
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