History Music / TheWho

* Keith Moon - drums, percussion, occasional vocals

* John Entwistle's wasn't successful either, though his solo recordings contained mostly original compositions and are considered cult classics by the fanbase. Entwistle maintained an aggressive touring schedule until his death, performing both with his solo group the John Entwistle Band, and as part of "A Walk Down Abbey Road", an all-star {{Beatles}} tribute group featuring himself, ToddRundgren, [[{{Heart}} Nancy Wilson]], and Alan Parsons. Entwistle was the only musician to perform both at the original {{Woodstock}} concert and at Woodstock '99, though he was relegated to the second stage for the latter.

* Daltrey's solo efforts were less remarkable, consisting mostly of ballads written for him by other people (most notably "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_6lCaqeBFQ Giving It All Away]]", penned by fellow pop star Leo Sayer, which reached #5 in the UK), as well as a cover of EltonJohn's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLSl8kwnnVU Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me]]" for the soundtrack to ''TheLostBoys''. Daltrey's success outside the Who was mainly as an actor - after his big-screen debut in the film adaptation of ''Tommy'', he starred in the musical ''Lisztomania'' and the crime drama ''[=McVicar=]'', as well as a string of minor roles in film and [=TV=] throughout the '80s and '90s, including a memorable appearance as the villianous Col. Rickman on ''{{Sliders}}'', and hosted the short-lived HistoryChannel series "Surviving History".

* Daltrey's solo efforts were less remarkable, consisting mostly of ballads written for him by other people (most notably "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_6lCaqeBFQ Giving It All Away]]", penned by fellow pop star Leo Sayer, which reached #5 in the UK), as well as a cover of EltonJohn's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLSl8kwnnVU Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me]]" for the soundtrack to ''TheLostBoys''. Daltrey's success outside the Who was mainly as an actor - after his big-screen debut in the film adaptation of ''Tommy'', he starred in the musical ''Lisztomania'' and the crime drama ''McVicar'', as well as a string of minor roles in film and [=TV=] throughout the '80s and '90s, including a memorable appearance as the villianous Col. Rickman on ''{{Sliders}}'', and hosted the short-lived HistoryChannel series "Surviving History".

* Townshend was the most successful commercially. Townshend's career outside the Who started in 1969, when he and several other musicians recorded three albums of religious music for devotees of Meher Baba. These albums were heavily bootlegged and tracks from them were later released on his first official solo album, 1972's "Who Came First". Townshend's solo career peaked in TheEighties, with his albums "Empty Glass", "All the Best Cowboys have Chinese Eyes", and "White City" producing a number of minor hits with "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FZbcoWrUsw Let My Love Open the Door]]", an electro-pop love song sung from the perspective of God, reaching #3 in the pop chart. and was a member of two short-lived [[{{Supergroup}} supergroups]] - "The Palpitations", which included himself, Ronnie Wood, Steve Winwood, Rick Grech, Jim Capaldi and others as backing band for [[EricClapton Eric Clapton's]] comeback show in 1973, and "The Deep End", featuring himself and PinkFloyd guitarist David Gilmour, who played on his solo album "White City" and released a live [=LP=] in 1986.

In addition to their work as a group, each of the Who's members also pursued solo careers to varying degrees of success. Townshend was the most successful commercially, having a number of minor hits in TheEighties with "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FZbcoWrUsw Let My Love Open the Door]]", an electro-pop love song sung from the perspective of God, reaching #3 in the pop charts, and was a member of two short-lived [[{{Supergroup}} supergroups]] - "The Palpitations", which included himself, Ronnie Wood, Steve Winwood, Rick Grech, Jim Capaldi and others as backing band for [[EricClapton Eric Clapton's]] comeback show in 1973, and "The Deep End", featuring himself and PinkFloyd guitarist David Gilmour, who played on his solo album "White City" and released a live [=LP=] in 1986. Daltrey's solo efforts were less remarkable, consisting mostly of ballads written for him by other people (most notably "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_6lCaqeBFQ Giving It All Away]]", penned by fellow pop star Leo Sayer, which reached #5 in the UK), as well as a cover of EltonJohn's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLSl8kwnnVU Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me]]" for the soundtrack to ''TheLostBoys''. Daltrey's success outside the Who was mainly as an actor - after his big-screen debut in the film adaptation of ''Tommy'', he starred in the musical ''Lisztomania'' and the crime drama ''McVicar'', as well as a string of minor roles in film and [=TV=] throughout the '80s and '90s. John Entwistle's wasn't successful either, though his solo recordings contained mostly original compositions and are considered cult classics by the fanbase. Moon's lone solo album, ''Two Sides of the Moon'', defies categorization; it's a SoBadItsGood compilation of '60s pop covers, produced by PhilSpector. Moon ''does not play drums at all'' on the album, leaving that job to session musicians while he sings and often ''croons'' the lyrics to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f29jcB1bZLI Beach Boys songs]], a number of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugm1C1jSLDQ Lennon/[=McCartney=] tunes]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rMvUNXvVdI one of his own band's songs]], and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te3CqTHa1e0 a Harry Nilsson song]] where he and [[TheBeatles Ringo Starr]] talk over the music and tell bad Music Hall jokes. ("My dog doesn't eat meat!" "Why not?" "We don't give him any!") Seriously.

* CrapsackWorld: The unreleased ''Lifehouse'' project took place in one, and several songs that were originally intended for inclusion on that album eventually found their way onto other albums. Also, John Entwistle's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2ZOhWAaGVs 905]]" takes place in a CrapsaccharineWorld similar to (if not actually inspired by) Aldous Huxley's ''BraveNewWorld''

* TropeMaker[=/=]TropeCodifier: Though ''The Story of Simon Simopath'' by [[NamesTheSame Nirvana]] is the UrExample of RockOperas, the Who's ''Tommy'' was the earliest one to become a hit. The Who maintain that it wasn't an influence in any major way, but several critics, and the Pretty Things themselves have disagreed. As for the Codifying, ''Tommy'' is still one of the best examples of a continuous narrative via music there is.

1996 saw the band's next tour - a similarly large-scale production of ''Quadrophenia'', featuring guest vocals by Billy Idol, Gary Glitter, and others, and the first appearance of Zak Starkey, son of RingoStarr and childhood protege of Keith Moon, as the group's regular drummer. Beginning in 2000, the Who returned to touring as a five-piece group, which they did on a biannual basis throughout the 2000s. The night before the scheduled kickoff of the 2002 tour in Las Vegas, John Entwistle died of heart failure after a night of indulging in HookersAndBlow, and was replaced on short notice by session bassist Pino Palladino, who has played for the group since.

In addition to their work as a group, each of the Who's members also pursued solo careers to varying degrees of success. Townshend was the most successful commercially, having a number of minor hits in TheEighties with "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FZbcoWrUsw Let My Love Open the Door]]", an electro-pop love song sung from the perspective of God, reaching #3 in the pop charts, and was a member of two short-lived [[{{Supergroup}} supergroups]] - "The Palpitations", which included himself, Ronnie Wood, Steve Winwood, Rick Grech, Jim Capaldi and others as backing band for [[EricClapton Eric Clapton's]] comeback show in 1973, and "The Deep End", featuring himself and PinkFloyd guitarist David Gilmour, who played on his solo album "White City" and released a live [=LP=] in 1986. Daltrey's solo efforts were less remarkable, consisting mostly of ballads written for him by other people (most notably "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_6lCaqeBFQ Giving It All Away]]", penned by fellow pop star Leo Sayer, which reached #5 in the UK), as well as a cover of EltonJohn's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLSl8kwnnVU Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me]]" for the soundtrack to ''TheLostBoys''. John Entwistle's wasn't successful either, though his solo recordings contained mostly original compositions and are considered cult classics by the fanbase. Moon's lone solo album, ''Two Sides of the Moon'', defies categorization; it's a SoBadItsGood compilation of '60s pop covers, produced by PhilSpector. Moon ''does not play drums at all'' on the album, leaving that job to session musicians while he sings and often ''croons'' the lyrics to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f29jcB1bZLI Beach Boys songs]], a number of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugm1C1jSLDQ Lennon/[=McCartney=] tunes]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rMvUNXvVdI one of his own band's songs]], and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te3CqTHa1e0 a Harry Nilsson song]] where he and [[TheBeatles Ringo Starr]] talk over the music and tell bad Music Hall jokes. ("My dog doesn't eat meat!" "Why not?" "We don't give him any!") Seriously.

In addition to their work as a group, each of the Who's members also pursued solo careers to varying degrees of success. Townshend was the most successful commercially, having a number of minor hits in TheEighties with "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FZbcoWrUsw Let My Love Open the Door]]", an electro-pop love song sung from the perspective of God, reaching #3 in the pop charts, and was a member of two short-lived [[{{Supergroup}} supergroups - "The Palpitations", which included himself, Ronnie Wood, Steve Winwood, Rick Grech, Jim Capaldi and others as backing band for [[EricClapton Eric Clapton's]] comeback show in 1973, and "The Deep End", featuring himself and PinkFloyd guitarist David Gilmour, who played on his solo album "White City" and released a live [=LP=] in 1986. Daltrey's solo efforts were less remarkable, consisting mostly of ballads written for him by other people (most notably "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_6lCaqeBFQ Giving It All Away]]", penned by fellow pop star Leo Sayer, which reached #5 in the UK), as well as a cover of EltonJohn's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLSl8kwnnVU Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me]]" for the soundtrack to ''TheLostBoys''. John Entwistle's wasn't successful either, though his solo recordings contained mostly original compositions and are considered cult classics by the fanbase. Moon's lone solo album, ''Two Sides of the Moon'', defies categorization; it's a SoBadItsGood compilation of '60s pop covers, produced by PhilSpector. Moon ''does not play drums at all'' on the album, leaving that job to session musicians while he sings and often ''croons'' the lyrics to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f29jcB1bZLI Beach Boys songs]], a number of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugm1C1jSLDQ Lennon/[=McCartney=] tunes]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rMvUNXvVdI one of his own band's songs]], and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te3CqTHa1e0 a Harry Nilsson song]] where he and [[TheBeatles Ringo Starr]] talk over the music and tell bad Music Hall jokes. ("My dog doesn't eat meat!" "Why not?" "We don't give him any!") Seriously.

In addition to their work as a group, each of the Who's members also pursued solo careers to varying degrees of success. Townshend was the most successful commercially, having a number of minor hits in TheEighties with "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FZbcoWrUsw Let My Love Open the Door]]", an electro-pop love song sung from the perspective of God, reaching #3 in the pop charts. Daltrey's solo efforts were less remarkable, consisting mostly of ballads written for him by other people (most notably "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_6lCaqeBFQ Giving It All Away]]", penned by fellow pop star Leo Sayer, which reached #5 in the UK), as well as a cover of EltonJohn's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLSl8kwnnVU Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me]]" for the soundtrack to ''TheLostBoys''. John Entwistle's wasn't successful either, though his solo recordings contained mostly original compositions and are considered cult classics by the fanbase. Moon's lone solo album, ''Two Sides of the Moon'', defies categorization; it's a SoBadItsGood compilation of '60s pop covers, produced by PhilSpector. Moon ''does not play drums at all'' on the album, leaving that job to session musicians while he sings and often ''croons'' the lyrics to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f29jcB1bZLI Beach Boys songs]], a number of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugm1C1jSLDQ Lennon/[=McCartney=] tunes]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rMvUNXvVdI one of his own band's songs]], and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te3CqTHa1e0 a Harry Nilsson song]] where he and [[TheBeatles Ringo Starr]] talk over the music and tell bad Music Hall jokes. ("My dog doesn't eat meat!" "Why not?" "We don't give him any!") Seriously.

Their first breakthrough was the 1967 {{Concept Album}} ''The Who Sell Out'', which included their biggest hit in the US, "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKGRijV8U3s I Can See for Miles]]", immediately followed by the famous {{Rock Opera}} ''{{Tommy}}'' in 1969, about a deaf, dumb and blind kid who "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AKbUm8GrbM plays a mean pinball]]" which is still considered by many to be [[MagnumOpus their best work]]. The tour in support of this album, which took the band to {{Woodstock}} and the Monterey Pop Festival and often featured them performing ''Tommy'' in its entirety, established them as one of the most dynamic and exciting live acts of their day. Around this time Townshend conceived an epic project called ''Lifehouse'', a story set in a {{Crapsack World}} led by an authoritarian government in which hundreds of people gather at a concert and ascend to a higher plane of existence through {{The Power Of Rock}}. However he over-exerted himself this time, and [[PoorCommunicationKills miscommunication]] which even manager/co-producer Kit Lambert (who convinced the band about the ''Tommy'' concept) couldn't resolve killed the project until it resurfaced as a Townshend solo album in 2000. Instead, The Who regrouped in 1971 with producer Glyn Johns and [[RecycledSoundtrack reworked the songs written for Lifehouse]] to produce ''Who's Next''. ''Who's Next'' reached #1 on the UK charts, #4 in the USA, was critically acclaimed (generally regarded as one of the best albums ever) and contains some of their best-known songs: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q Won't Get Fooled Again]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2KRpRMSu4g Baba O'Riley]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9-3RZkzpwM Behind Blue Eyes]]".

* EpicRiff: "My Generation", "Baba O'Riley", "I'm Free"

* RecordOfLoudnessWar: Some of their recent remasters, especially ''Meaty''.
** You could argue the Who were the rock-throwing cavemen from whom a direct line can be drawn to the high-tech, range-compressing warriors of today. The Who just used plain old wattage (see "Heroic RROD" above). Dougal Butler, who wrote ''Full Moon'', a hilarious memoir of his days with the band, said: "The Who have been clocked at 120 decibels near the stage. This is a condition which can be exactly duplicated by sticking your head in a jet engine."
** Yeah, ''live''. Thankfully technology back then couldn't stand as much abuse as [=CDs=] nowadays.

* HenpeckedHusband[=/=]Woman Scorned: "My Wife"

* PunnyName: "Pick Up the Peace," ''Who's Next''. Honorable mention to the original name for the album that morphed into ''Tommy'': ''Who's for Tennis''

* RockOpera: ''{{Tommy}}'', ''Quadrophenia''. ''[[WhatCouldHaveBeen Lifehouse]]'' was supposed to be one. ''Tommy'' is the TropeNamer, the TropeMaker, ''and'' the TropeCodifier. See below.

** The song "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhtmzy5L4hw Glow Girl]]," recorded during the ''The Who Sell Out'' sessions but unreleased for a number of years, ends with a short song fragment ("[[GenderBender it's a girl, Mrs. Walker, it's a girl]]") that is recycled almost verbatim as the second track of ''Tommy''.

In addition to their work as a group, each of the Who's members also pursued solo careers to varying degrees of success. Townshend was the most successful commercially, having a number of minor hits in TheEighties with "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FZbcoWrUsw Let My Love Open the Door]]", an electro-pop love song sung from the perspective of God, reaching #3 in the pop charts. Daltrey's solo efforts were less remarkable, consisting mostly of ballads written for him by other people (most notably "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_6lCaqeBFQ Giving It All Away]]", penned by fellow pop star Leo Sayer, which reached #5 in the UK), as well as a cover of EltonJohn's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLSl8kwnnVU Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me]]" for the soundtrack to ''TheLostBoys''. John Entwistle's wasn't successful either, though his solo recordings contained mostly original compositions and are considered cult classics by the fanbase. Moon's lone solo album, ''Two Sides of the Moon'', defies categorization; it's a SoBadItsGood compilation of '60s pop covers, produced by PhilSpector. Moon ''does not play drums at all'' on the album, leaving that job to session musicians while he sings and often ''croons'' the lyrics to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f29jcB1bZLI Beach Boys songs]], a number of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugm1C1jSLDQ Lennon/[=McCartney=] tunes]], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rMvUNXvVdI one of his own band's songs]], and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=te3CqTHa1e0 a Harry Nilsson song]] where he and [[TheBeatles Ringo Starr]] talk over the music and tell bad MusicHall jokes. ("My dog doesn't eat meat!" "Why not?" "We don't give him any!") Seriously.

* {{Audience Participation}}: Scot Halpin.

* {{Berserk Button}}: If Pete Townshend catches you on stage during the band's set, be prepared to [[TalkToTheFist talk to the guitar]].

* {{Concept Album}}: ''The Who Sell Out''. In its original LP release, the concept gets more or less abandoned by the start of side two. Later CD releases correct this error by including real-life commercials recorded by the band to pad out the concept.

* {{Creator Breakdown}}: ''Lifehouse'', ''[[LampshadeHanging The Who By Numbers]]''.

* {{Embarrassing Tattoo}}: "Tattoo"

* {{Epic Riff}} "My Generation", "Baba O'Riley", "I'm Free"
* {{Epic Rocking}}: "A Quick One While He's Away", "Won't Get Fooled Again", "Love Reign O'er Me", "Baba O' Riley", "We're Not Gonna Take It"... among others.

* FaceOfTheBand: Notable aversion, all the band members are generally well known, with Roger Daltrey ironically being the ''least'' remembered by comparison.

* {{Henpecked Husband}} / {{Woman Scorned}}: "My Wife"

* {{Intercourse With You}}: "Squeeze Box", "Pictures of Lily", "Mary Ann With the Shaky Hand"
* {{Incredibly Lame Pun}}: And plenty.
* {{Last Chorus Slow Down}}: "Baba O'Riley" is a subversion; it moves from on-the-edge hard rock to folk rock with fiddle playing at the end, but then the fiddle moves into ''accelerando''.

* {{Last Note Nightmare}}: The ''Tommy'' outtake "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgT_plPbaVQ Cousin Kevin, Model Child]]" ends with one of these.

* {{Love Triangle}}: "Substitute," "A Quick One (While He's Away)," the plot to ''Tommy''

* MagnumOpus: Either, ''Tommy'', ''Live at Leeds'', ''Quadrophenia'' or ''Who's Next''.

* {{The Power Of Rock}}: ''Lifehouse''

* {{The Quiet One}}: John Entwistle, who went so far as to write a song about himself, with that title.

* {{Repurposed Pop Song}}: "Who Are You" is the ThemeTune for ''{{CSI}}''. Which makes sense, because the show is about finding the killer. Well, except that the song is really about getting drunk, being hassled by the cops, and finding God.

*** {{Word Of God}} says that they were originally planning to use "Behind Blue Eyes" to make reference to NYPD cops, but through {{Executive Meddling}}, they ended up using "Baba O'Riley".

* {{Rock Opera}}: ''{{Tommy}}'', ''Quadrophenia''. ''[[WhatCouldHaveBeen Lifehouse]]'' was supposed to be one. ''Tommy'' is the TropeNamer, the TropeMaker, ''and'' the TropeCodifier. See below.

* {{Rockumentary}} ''The Kids Are Alright''. There's also the recent ''Amazing Journey: The Story of the Who'', which is a more serious look at the band's history.

* {{Single Stanza Song}}/{{Looped Lyrics}}/{{Title Only Chorus}}: "See Me Feel Me"

* {{Three Chords And The Truth}}: especially in the early period, to the extent that many of the early punk bands cited the Who as their prime inspiration. (The SexPistols and TheRamones ''both'' recorded covers of "Substitute".) In a bump recorded for ''Little Steven's Underground Garage'', Townshend quips "Wanna see a magic trick? Look what I can do with only three chords!"

* {{Angrish}}: The stuttering in "My Generation" is meant partly to evoke this, and partly to invoke [[EverythingsBetterOnDrugs a pill-popper who can't control his speech because he's high on amphetamines]].

* 1965 - ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3h--K5928M I Can't Explain'']], [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUkJYkVTITU ''Anyway Anyhow Anywhere'']]

Their first breakthrough was the 1967 {{Concept Album}} ''The Who Sell Out'', which included their biggest hit in the US, "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKGRijV8U3s I Can See for Miles]]", immediately followed by the famous {{Rock Opera}} ''{{Tommy}}'' in 1969, about a deaf, dumb and blind kid who "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AKbUm8GrbM plays a mean pinball]]" which is still considered by many to be [[MagnumOpus their best work]]. Around this time Townshend conceived an epic project called ''Lifehouse'', a story set in a {{Crapsack World}} led by an authoritarian government in which hundreds of people gather at a concert and ascend to a higher plane of existence through {{The Power Of Rock}}. However he over-exerted himself this time, and [[PoorCommunicationKills miscommunication]] which even manager/co-producer Kit Lambert (who convinced the band about the ''Tommy'' concept) couldn't resolve killed the project until it resurfaced as a Townshend solo album in 2000. Instead, The Who regrouped in 1971 with producer Glyn Johns and [[RecycledSoundtrack reworked the songs written for Lifehouse]] to produce ''Who's Next''. ''Who's Next'' reached #1 on the UK charts, #4 in the USA, was critically acclaimed (generally regarded as one of the best albums ever) and contains some of their best-known songs: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q Won't Get Fooled Again]]", "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2KRpRMSu4g Baba O'Riley]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9-3RZkzpwM Behind Blue Eyes]]".

* {{Epic Rocking}}: "A Quick One While He's Away", "Won't Get Fooled Again", "Long Live Rock"

However, one month after the album's release, Keith Moon died after accidentally overdosing on Heminevrin, a drug he had been prescribed to treat alcohol withdrawl. (He had taken to [[TooDumbToLive downing them by the dozen and mixing them with alcohol]]; 31 undigested pills were found in his stomach during his autopsy.) He was replaced by Kenney Jones of The Faces, who lacked Moon's characteristic hyperactive drumming style, with John "Rabbit" Bundrick unofficially added as the band's keyboardist, a position which Townshend (and occasionally Nicky Hopkins) had filled in the past. With Jones, they recorded two more albums: ''Face Dances'' (1981) and ''It's Hard'' (1982), which suffered from uninspired songwriting, the only notable songs being "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj58IHA3urc You Better You Bet]]" and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhuLhcbY_08 Another Tricky Day]]" from the former, and "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkRx3NZ-qp4 Athena]]" from the latter. Finally, in December 1983, Townshend issued a public statement that The Who had disintegrated.

--->'''Abbie Hoffman''': I think this is a pile of shit! While John Sinclair rots in prison...\\

* CrazyPrepared: Townshend's preferred manner of preparing songs to be recorded by the band was to record demo tracks on which he sang lead and ''played all the instrumentals himself'', to be recorded over later by the other band members. His "Scoop" trilogy of solo albums is made of of compilations of these demos, and two discs of the six-disc "Lifehouse Chronicles" box set are made up of them.

* EasilyForgiven: The girl who is the subject of "A Quick One While He's Away" is forgiven by her long-absent boyfriend seconds after she is caught in the act with Ivor the engine driver. A rare justified example- said boyfriend mentions he wasn't entirely faithful himself.

*** You mean Keith Moon's drum kit from their appearance on "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour". Moon was said to have packed more powder into the kit than the technicians were comfortable with and nobody but him knew about it.

* {{Last Note Nightmare}}: The ''Tommy'' outtake "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgT_plPbaVQ Cousin Kevin Model Child]]" ends with one of these.
* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: The original [=LP=] release of ''Live At Leeds'' consisted solely of six tracks on a single record. The first reissue in 1995 added the entire concert except for the live performance of ''{{Tommy}}''. The 2001 reissue added that as well, and the 2010 version also included the sister concert performed a few days later at Hull.

* {{Single Stanza Song}}/{{Looped Lyrics}}/{{Title Only Chorus}}: "See Me Feel Me Hear Me"

** "Comparatively" is right. It's odd that you can be described as the low-key member of the group while performing an entire concert in a Halloween Skeleton Costume.
** Special mention should be made to his outfit in the Monterey Pop Festival. He's not on screen much, but when you see him, it's like getting hit with a psychedelic neon club.

* TropeMaker[=/=]TropeCodifier: Though ''The Story of Simon Simpoath'' by [[NamesTheSame Nirvana]] is the UrExample of RockOperas, the Who's ''Tommy'' was the earliest one to become a hit. The Who maintain that it wasn't an influence in any major way, but several critics, and the Pretty Things themselves have disagreed. As for the Codifying, ''Tommy'' is still one of the best examples of a continuous narrative via music there is.

* {{Epic Riff}} "My Generation", "Baba O'Riley"