Like so many ’60s pop bands, The Who was a singles band. Albums were often an afterthought, and the rest of the songs on the records were nothing more than filler. Radio play drove the sales. Songwriter Pete Townshend first toyed with the idea of composing an opera in a project called Quads. A story set […]
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