Album: Who Came First
Year: 1972
Pete Townshend’s first official solo album, Who Came First, is kind of a mongrel mess. As a devotee of Meher Baba, he’d already participated in a pair of privately-distributed records as tributes to Baba, which were — duh! — heavily.
Because there was clearly a demand for Townshend’s music outside of the context of The Who, the decision was made to take a couple of tracks from those records and combine them with three demos from Pete’s aborted Lifehouse project, from which had sprung the monumental who’s next.
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