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The Who’s legendary 1971 studio album, Who’s Next has been reissued by UMG/Polydor with hours of new content and brand new remasters from longtime Who engineer Jon Astley! The band’s fifth album emerged from the ashes of a project called Lifehouse, an ambitious multi-media rock opera conceived by Pete Townshend in 1969, but ultimately aborted. Who’s Next features some of The Who’s best known songs, including ‘Baba O’Riley’ and ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’. This 2-disc Deluxe edition contains the newly remastered album and a bonus disc of the highlights from the 10-disc super deluxe box, which creates an overview of the album in the form of unreleased and live tracks. Featuring 21 total tracks with 8 previously unreleased tracks and 4 previously released tracks with fresh remixes. Who’s Next : Life House sets out Townshend’s extraordinary vision of a world beset by climatic catastrophe and pollution, leading to a curtailing of personal freedom that will be all too familiar to the pandemic generation. Decades ahead of his time, he details how the population is then seduced and sedated by access to an entertainment “Grid,” piped into every home via the use of virtual reality experience suits. In his introduction to the new editions, Townshend describes Life House as “a portentous polemic about the coming of a nation beaten down by climate issues and pollution.” He then explains how “an opportunist and autocratic government enforce a national lock-down in which every person is hooked up to an entertainment grid.” Music itself then becomes an inconvenient diversion, “a very real distraction to the subjugation of the population in suits,” with fascinating consequences. Songs that depicted a dystopian world in which faceless corporations control our lives may have been fiction at the time, but they have come to be more like documentary. With this momentous release, one of rock’s great last untold stories is finally about to be recounted in full.