Universal Music in the UK(and possibly in The U.S.A.) will be releasing a "Super Deluxe" edition of "The Who-Live at Leeds" in November. The 4 CD's will include the complete Leeds show, the previously unreleased Hull show(recorded the night after "Leeds"), plus a vinyl L.P. of the original 6-song "Live at Leeds" album, a 7" single of "Summertime Blues", and a hardcover book. This info is from "Your Way to Music".



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Enough already with this album. I would hope the only way to get the full Hull show is not having to buy the vinyl, but I'm guessing that's the case.

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The Who to Release Previously Unreleased Material as Part Of 40th Anniversary Edition of Live At Leeds

"What hits you when you listen to it is you realise how much you need to see the Who" Pete Townshend, 1970

November 8th 2010, will see USM and Polydor (US UMe release date tbc) release a very special collector's edition of the seminal Live At Leeds album and, for the very first time, this will include the full Hull concert recorded the following night.

Live At Leeds was the ultimate confirmation of the Who's sheer ferocity as a live rock act, without equal. Whereas their studio recordings had only tantalisingly hinted at the all-out barrage of the senses that a live Who gig produced, Live At Leeds removed all doubt.
Following on the heels of the success of the rock opera Tommy, and the band's grandstanding appearance at the Woodstock Festival, when released in 1970, Live At Leeds unwittingly documented the Who at the peak of their powers, whose shows now stretched up to two and a half hours without a break containing Tommy as their centrepiece.

Those 150 minutes are captured on the Super-Deluxe 40th Anniversary Collectors' Edition of this landmark of live albums. At the time, live pop or rock albums tended to be primitive affairs when capturing both band and audience. Live At Leeds was no exception, recorded on a mobile unit placed amid the kitchen of a university refectory in an unassuming industrial town in northern England. But the results – crackling noises and all – were enough for influential pop culture writer Nik Cohn, to describe Live At Leeds in his New York Times column as "the best live rock album ever made." As recently as 2006, it topped a poll in Q magazine of the greatest live rock albums ever made – a testament to its enduring legacy.

This new edition of one of the most important live rock albums ever contains:

• Two CDs containing the full Leeds show from 14 February 1970 recorded for the album including the complete performance of Tommy
• For the first time ever - two CDs containing the Who's complete performance from Hull, which was recorded the following evening, but ultimately left in the vaults as Leeds was thought to have yielded better results. It was a close call as can be heard, the Hull show was equally incendiary.
• A heavyweight vinyl reproduction of the original six-track album as it was released in 1970
• A new 64-page hard-back, colour book containing rare photos, memorabilia from the original release, (replica contracts, letters, poster gig list, photos and more), plus liner notes detailing the history of this landmark album.
• A replica 7" single – "Summertime Blues / Heaven & Hell" with colour sleeve.
• A classic Pete Townshend poster
• Housed in a hard-back box with cover artwork reproducing the original black stamped vinyl first UK pressing which, according to the July 2010 edition of Record Collector magazine, is now valued at approximately £250 in mint condition.

Its getting to be a disturbing trend adding vinyl to these deluxe editions when all we want is one of the bonus's.

And I suspect the pricing will be similar to the recent Stones & Bowie packages at $150+?

The problem with the Who's shows back in 1969-70 is that all the shows I've heard, official and bootleg, have featured pretty much the same setlist--the exception being the Woodstock show, which was truncated to an hour. There's absolutely nothing wrong with the quality of these shows, performance-wise, but I'm just not enought of a die-hard Who fan to be able to tell the Isle Of Wight show from the Leeds show without looking at the CD label. Should I expect this Hull show to be anything relevatory?

I get tired of whining, but this is what drives me nuts about the Who--for years fans have clamored for vintage live shows, and when they are finally forthcoming, they're all from the same tour. Why???

The Who to this day do the same 10 songs over and over live.

Hope there is a CD only release. I just sold all my vinyl. I don't want any more bloody vinyl.

I'm sure the box set will have a great booklet as all other deluxe editions have had very informative books etc.

Dee Orrible Ooo

I might be interested in the four CDs, but I don't need to buy vinyl I'll never play.

If I want the vinyl of the original album, I can get that for about $3. I do want the CDs, though.

Alan

Hey Renny! Look what Pete Townshend's releasing now.

Y'know, if you're going to overcharge for something like this, you could at least design a package that's NOT guaranteed to scratch the discs...

Same here Chris...personally, I didn't like the way they released the double Live at Leeds CD with Tommy as a separate CD. That made no sense at all. At least the Isle of White had Tommy placed properly in the show.

Honestly...I'm still waiting to see what this costs. I can't dent the fact that this would seem to be an awesome item--for anybody who doesn't own any previous permutation of "Live At Leeds". I'm curious about the mix used for the "six-track" vinyl album included in the package--those same songs, particularly "Magic Bus", sounded a lot different on expanded 1995 CD. I'll also admit to being at least curious about the Hull show...

It certainly seems to be a more substantial deluxe edition than the "Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!" deluxe edition, which only consisted of the same five extra songs on both a CD and a DVD, and a CD containing no Rolling Stones at all--and I still plan to pick up that "Ya-Ya's" set someday...probably...

Will this be a remaster, with the proper track sequencing of Leeds or just a repackage of the current 2-CD with the Hull stuff and vinyl? I'd go for this if Leeds is remastered/corrected but not just for the Hull stuff and I already have the original vinyl.....

The Leeds portion is the same as the existing 2CD Deluxe Version.

According to someone over at the Hoffman site with usually good info on all things Who, the particulars of this release are still in flux and that as of a few days ago, Leeds will be a remaster.

Remaster of a remaster of a master. Oh my head! Thank God I actually still have the original vinyl and CD.

It does make one wonder if the previously corrected crackling noises will become again uncorrected.

Actually it will be remaster of a remaster of a remaster!