With renewed attention going to The Who Sell Out due to the new “super deluxe” edition of the 1967 classic, Pete Townshend shed light on how the album was constructed.
SIDE NOTES
The tracklisting and contents to the “Super-Deluxe Edition” of The Who Sell Out is:
- Disc 1 – original mono mix, mono A’s & B’s and unreleased mono mixes
- Disc 2 – original stereo mix and stereo bonus tracks
- Disc 3 – Studio out-takes, ‘fly-on-the-wall’ versions of early takes of songs from the album sessions, ‘studio chat’ etc. – previously unreleased
- Disc 4 – ‘The Road To Tommy’ will contain stereo mixes of the studio tracks recorded in 1968 – some previously unreleased – plus 1968 A’s and B’s mono mixes (all tracks remixed from original 4 and 8-track session tapes in The Who vault)
- Disc 5 – 14 of Pete Townshend’s original demos – previously unreleased & exclusive to this set.
CHECK IT OUT: The Who’s 1968 anti-smoking song, “Little Billy”: