The Who – Who Are You [Super Deluxe Edition 6 Box-Set CD] – 1978 / 2025, FLAC

Who Are You, The Who’s eighth studio album, released in August 1978, was a commercial success, peaking at No 2 on the US Billboard 200 chart, where only the soundtrack to the Grease prevented it from hitting the top spot in the USA. The record also reached No 6 in the UK album charts.

Who Are You was the band’s final studio album to feature Keith Moon, who died just three weeks after it was released. The album showcased some of Pete Townshend’s most complicated arrangements, with multiple layers of synthesizer and strings, including songs envisaged for his Townshend’s never realised Lifehouse project.

The first single from the album, the eponymous Who Are You, was a transatlantic top 20 hit and has become over the years a staple in the band’s setlist and decades later gained new audiences when used at the theme tune to US TV’s CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

The 7CD box set features previously unreleased Glyn Johns mixes (rejected by the band), early run-throughs, sessions and outtakes, plus unreleased tracks from Shepperton studio rehearsals, live recordings and more. Full track listing below.

CD 1: Who Are You – remastered

New Song
Had Enough
905
Sister Disco
Music Must Change
Trick Of the Light
Guitar And Pen
Love Is Coming Down
Who Are You

CD 2: Glyn Johns Mix

All tracks previously unreleased
New Song (Glyn Johns mix)
Had Enough (Glyn Johns mix
905 (Glyn Johns mix)
Sister Disco (Glyn Johns mix)
Trick of The Light (Glyn Johns mix)
Guitar and Pen (Glyn Johns mix)
Who Are You (Glyn Johns mix)
Trick of The Light (Single Version Edit – Glyn Johns mix
Guitar and Pen ( Glyn Johns Alt mix)
Who Are You (Glyn Johns Single edit)
New Song (Pete Vocal – Steven Wilson mix)
Sister Disco (Lost Guitar Mix- Steven Wilson mix)
Had Enough (No Orchestra- Steven Wilson mix)
Guitar and Pen (Pete Guide Vocal- Steven Wilson mix)
Love Is Coming Down (No Orchestra- Steven Wilson mix)
Who Are You (Early Run Through -Pete Vox- Steven Wilson mix)

CD 3: Sessions & Demos

Who Are You (Lost Verse Mix)
Guitar and Pen (Olympic 78 Mix)
Love Is Coming Down (Early Run Through)
Empty Glass (Session Out Take)
No Road Romance (Session Out Take)
Trick of the Light (Unused Olympic Edit) Previously Unreleased
Who Are You (Clean Radio Edit)
905 (John Entwistle Demo) Previously Unreleased
Had Enough – John Entwistle Demo Previously Unreleased
Back On the Road (John Entwistle Demo)
Wild Horses (John Entwistle Demo)
Trick of the Light (John Entwistle Demo) Previously Unreleased
Good Time Coming (John Entwistle Demo) Previously Unreleased
Who Are You (John and Cyrano’s mix from The Kids Are Alright)

CD 4: Shepperton 1977

Are You (Early version recorded live in Toronto, 1976) Previously Unreleased
The Kids Are Alright (Shepperton Studios) Previously Unreleased
Run, Run, Run (Shepperton Studios) Previously Unreleased
Spoonful / Smokestack Lightning (Shepperton Studios) Previously Unreleased
I Saw Her Standing There (Shepperton Studios Previously Unreleased
Instrumental Jam (Shepperton Studios) Previously Unreleased
Who Are You (Knocking It into Shape 1 – Shepperton Studios) Previously Unreleased
Who Are You (Knocking It into Shape 2 – Shepperton Studios) Previously Unreleased
Baba O’Riley (Shepperton Studios) Previously Unreleased
Shakin’ All Over (Shepperton Studios) Previously Unreleased
Bell Boy – Shepperton Studios Previously Unreleased
Won’t Get Fooled Again (Shepperton Studios) Previously Unreleased
Barbara Ann (Shepperton Studios) Previously Unreleased
I Saw Her Standing There 2 (Shepperton Studios) Previously Unreleased
Drowned (Shepperton Studios) Previously Unreleased

CD 5: Shepperton 1978/9

Baba O’Riley (Shepperton for The Kids Are Alright 1978) Previously Unreleased
My Wife (Shepperton for The Kids Are Alright 1978) Previously Unreleased
My Generation (Shepperton for The Kids Are Alright 1978) Previously Unreleased
Join Together (Shepperton for The Kids Are Alright 1978) Previously Unreleased
Who Are You (Shepperton for The Kids Are Alright 1978) Previously Unreleased
Won’t Get Fooled Again (Shepperton for The Kids Are Alright 1978) Previously Unreleased
Sister Disco (Shepperton Tour Rehearsal 1979) Previously Unreleased
Music Must Change (Shepperton Tour Rehearsal 1979) Previously Unreleased
Won’t Get Fooled Again (Shepperton Tour Rehearsal 1979) Previously Unreleased
Who Are You (Shepperton Tour Rehearsal 1979) Previously Unreleased

CD 6: Live USA 1979 – Part One

Substitute Previously Unreleased
I Can’t Explain Previously Unreleased
Baba O’Riley Previously Unreleased
The Punk and the Godfather Previously Unreleased
Boris the Spider Previously Unreleased
Sister Disco Previously Unreleased
Behind Blue Eyes Previously Unreleased
Music Must Change Previously Unreleased
Drowned Previously Unreleased
Who Are You Previously Unreleased
15 Previously Unreleased
Pinball Wizard Previously Unreleased
See Me, Feel Me Previously Unreleased

CD 7: Live USA 1979 – Part Two

Long Live Rock Previously Unreleased
My Generation Previously Unreleased
I Can See for Miles Previously Unreleased
Trick Of the Light Previously Unreleased
Sparks Previously Unreleased
Won’t Get Fooled Again Previously Unreleased)
Jam /Take A Fool Like You Previously Unreleased
How Can You Do It Alone Previously Unreleased
Magic Bus Previously Unreleased
Summertime Blues Previously Unreleased
Dancing in the Street / Dance It Away Previously Unreleased
The Real Me Previously Unreleased

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