The Who Tour 1971
| Tour by The Who | |
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| Associated album | "Who's Next" |
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| Start date | 4 January 1971 |
| End date | 15 December 1971 |
| Legs | 5 |
| No. of shows | 72 (approximately) |
| The Who concert chronology | |
The Who Tour 1971 was a series of performances and tours by The Who in which they performed material from Pete Townshend's rock opera Lifehouse, much of which would then appear on their 1971 album Who's Next.
With the band's 1969 and 1970 performances dominated by Tommy, Townshend and the group were ready to infuse their act with new material, with Townshend having written a number of songs around the Lifehouse concept by the end of 1970. The earliest performances of the year took place at London's Young Vic theatre as the band began to perfect the new material and unsuccessfully attempt to bring Townshend's Lifehouse visions to fruition. These were interrupted for recording sessions at New York's Record Plant in March, which yielded material the band ultimately decided not to use (these tracks would eventually appear as bonus material on the reissues of Who's Next). They resumed performing and recording back in England, eventually completing the material for Who's Next plus a number of other songs (notably the central Lifehouse tracks "Pure and Easy" and "Let's See Action") that would see light in the months and years following the album's release. Both of the group's US tours and their autumn UK tour would support Who's Next, released in August.
Several songs performed for the first time in 1971 would become staples in the band's act, including "Behind Blue Eyes", "Baba O'Riley", "Bargain", and "Won't Get Fooled Again"; "My Wife" would also appear in many subsequent tours as the featured John Entwistle number in the show, right up until his death in 2002. Other songs introduced this year were "Love Ain't For Keeping", "Pure and Easy", "Getting in Tune", "Too Much of Anything", and "Time Is Passing", the latter an obscure track recorded by the group during the Who's Next sessions and not released until Odds and Sods was reissued in 1998 (a Townshend solo version surfaced on Who Came First in 1972). Additionally, the band would reintroduce "Baby Don't You Do It", which had appeared in their act from 1964–1966 and was among the numbers recorded at the Record Plant, this time punctuated by a heavy Keith Moon drum beat. Meanwhile, the vast majority of Tommy was initially dropped from the act, with only "Pinball Wizard" and "See Me, Feel Me" remaining, although the group would bring back the "Overture", "Amazing Journey", and "Sparks" later in the year.
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