Legendary rock band The Who have announced a super deluxe edition of their 1975 album, The Who By Numbers.

50 years on, The Who By Numbers is to be reissued on October 30 as a 5CD/1Blu-Ray Super Deluxe Edition boxset featuring a 100-page hard back book with photos, memorabilia and exclusive notes from Pete Townshend and Who expert Andy Neill, 92 unreleased tracks and mixes, brand new Atmos, 5.1 and Stereo mixes by Pete Townshend, 11 of Pete’s original demos for the album, tracking sessions from Ramport and Shepperton Studios, early mixes, guide vocals, the full version of Live At the Vetch Field, and on the Blu-Ray audio and video from a previously unreleased Who concert shot on 2″ videotape from Metropolitan Stadium, Pontiac, Michigan.

The Who By Numbers, released in early October 1975, is the seventh studio album by The Who and marked a watershed moment for the band.

This new super deluxe edition sheds light on the making of the album and the state of mind of its composer, Pete Townshend. As he puts it in the 100-page making-of-the-album book that accompanies the box set, “I could feel a new wave or reaction and rebellion coming in the music business, the big bands were becoming careless and self-indulgent. I wanted my songs to continue to have a cathartic function for our audience. When punk hit a few years later, I was not surprised.”

“In some ways, The Who By Numbers is my favourite [Who] album. For me, songs like ‘Imagine A Man’, ‘How Many Friends’ and ‘However Much I Booze’ expose our vulnerabilities, and the album is wonderful for that,” says Roger Daltrey.

The super deluxe edition of The Who By Numbers is available to pre-order here.

Source: RTT Music News