{"id":30136,"date":"2024-08-14T15:02:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T15:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-aug-14-1971-the-who-release-whos-next\/"},"modified":"2024-08-14T15:02:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T15:02:31","slug":"on-this-day-aug-14-1971-the-who-release-whos-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-aug-14-1971-the-who-release-whos-next\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Aug. 14, 1971: The Who release &#8216;Who\u2019s Next&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-08-14\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Aug. 14, 1971\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">English rockers\u00a0<strong>The Who\u00a0<\/strong>released their iconic album\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Who\u2019s Next<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, featuring such future Who classics as \u201cBaba O\u2019Riley,\u201d \u201cWon\u2019t Get Fooled Again,\u201d and \u201cBehind Blue Eyes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The album was originally conceived as another rock opera,\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Lifehouse<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, following their 1969 hit\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Tommy<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">.\u00a0<strong>Pete Townshend\u00a0<\/strong>eventually scrapped the whole project.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Who\u2019s Next\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">was a critics darling, and consistently lands on lists of the greatest albums of all time. The album was the band&#8217;s only #1 in the U.K.; it hit #4 on the\u00a0<\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Billboard\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">200 Album chart and has been certified triple Platinum by the RIAA.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Last year The Who revisited <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Who&#8217;s Next\/Lifehouse <\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">with a new 10-CD\/Blu-ray set that featured 155 tracks, with 89 songs that had never been released and 57 fresh remixes. It included <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Lifehouse\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">demos, various session recordings and two complete concerts from 1971: one recorded at London\u2019s Young Vic theater and one recorded at San Francisco\u2019s Civic Auditorium<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Aug. 14, 1971\u2026 English rockers\u00a0The Who\u00a0released their iconic album\u00a0Who\u2019s Next, featuring such future Who classics as \u201cBaba O\u2019Riley,\u201d \u201cWon\u2019t Get Fooled Again,\u201d and \u201cBehind Blue Eyes.\u201d The album was originally conceived as another rock opera,\u00a0Lifehouse, following their 1969 hit\u00a0Tommy.\u00a0Pete Townshend\u00a0eventually scrapped the whole project. Who\u2019s Next\u00a0was a<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-aug-14-1971-the-who-release-whos-next\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}