Won't Get Fooled Again: The Who from Lifehouse to Quadrophenia details the Who's amazing and peculiar journey in the years during which they struggled to follow up Tommy with a yet bigger and better rock opera. One of those projects, Lifehouse, was never completed, though many of its songs formed the bulk of their 1971 album Who't Next. The other, Quadrophenia, was as down-to-earth as the multimedia Lifehouse was futuristic; issued as a double album in 1973, it eventually became esteemed as one of the Who's finest achievements, despite unavoidable initial unfavorable comparisons to Tommy. Including material from several dozen interviews and mountains of rare archival coverage and recordings, it's the definitive account of this fascinating period in the Who's career, which saw both some of their greatest triumphs and, in Lifehouse, rock's most spectacular failure.

Click on the links below to read a few excerpts from the book:

• At the Record Plant: The Who's First Attempt to Record Lifehouse/Who's Next in New York, March 1971
• Playing Lifehouse Live: The Story Behind the April 26, 1971 Concert on the Bonus Disc for the Who's Next Deluxe Reissue
• Behind the Scenes at the Beginning of the Quadrophenia Sessions
• Quadrophenia: The Stories Behind the Album's Sound Effects, Cover Design, and Booklet
• Author's introduction to Won't Get Fooled Again: The Who from Lifehouse to Quadrophenia
  
• Q&A of Interview Done for Won't Get Fooled Again with Quadrophenia engineer Ron Nevison

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