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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=\"../../../music/artists/the-who\"&gt;&lt;span style=\"float: left; color: #000000; font-size: 35pt; line-height: 0.7; margin: 0.13em 0.1em 0pt 0pt;\"&gt;T&lt;/span&gt;he Who&lt;/a&gt; went on at about 2:30 in the morning, playing in typical English festival weather &amp;#x2014; cold, dark and wet. As the centerpiece of their show, &lt;em&gt;Tommy&lt;/em&gt; was already teetering on its last, played-out legs. And we&amp;apos;ve recently been blessed with an expanded CD reissue of the group&amp;apos;s definitive concert document, &lt;em&gt;Live at Leeds&lt;/em&gt;, taped just six months before this show. So ask yourself: How much Who is too much? Is this excavation of their IOW &amp;apos;70 show &amp;#x2014; &lt;em&gt;Tommy,&lt;/em&gt; warts and all &amp;#x2014; necessary? Yeah, if only for the white-riot theater of &amp;quot;Young Man Blues&amp;quot; (particularly the band&amp;apos;s astounding staccato convulsions in the midsection); the rare, live reading of &lt;a href=\"../../../music/artists/pete-townshend\"&gt;Pete Townshend&lt;/a&gt;&amp;apos;s wonderful hymn to self-doubt, &amp;quot;I Don&amp;apos;t Even Know Myself&amp;quot;; and the raw, &lt;em&gt;glowing&lt;/em&gt; power of &amp;quot;Naked Eye.&amp;quot; As Townshend tartly remarks early in the set, &amp;quot;Smile, ya buggers. Pretend it&amp;apos;s Christmas.&amp;quot; And treat yourself.&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;wm:embed type=\"related\"&gt;&lt;/wm:embed&gt;&lt;p&gt;Listening to &lt;em&gt;The Rock &amp;amp; Roll Circus&lt;/em&gt; on CD spares you the pain of watching &lt;a href=\"../../../music/artists/mick-jagger\"&gt;Mick Jagger&lt;/a&gt; prance around in ringmaster&amp;apos;s gear and seeing the death-mask pallor of Brian Jones&amp;apos; face. But then you miss out on riveting eyefuls of Taj Mahal &amp;#x2014; a vision of blackoutlaw cool amid the lily-white parade of British rock royalty &amp;#x2014; and an early, surprisingly grungy &lt;a href=\"../../../music/artists/jethro-tull\"&gt;Jethro Tull&lt;/a&gt;. There&amp;apos;s a reason why &lt;a href=\"../../../music/artists/the-rolling-stones\"&gt;the Rolling Stones &lt;/a&gt;stuffed this 1968 TV show into the can after filming: The Who blew &amp;apos;em off the soundstage. Get the video and see for yourself.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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