#The who sell out full

The album was recorded in several cities and over several months in 1967, a year of many legendary milestones for the band. All products shown in these pictures were exaggerated in size. On the back is drummer Keith Moon applying Medac and bassist John Entwistle appearing as Charles Atlas.

#The who sell out full

On the front is Townshend applying Odorono brand deodorant and lead vocalist Roger Daltrey sitting in a bathtub full of Heinz baked beans (from which he allegedly caught pneumonia after sitting for a prolonged period). The albumвЂ™s cover is divided into panels featuring a photograph of each of the band members, two on the front and two on the back. In fact, the deodorant company Odorono took offense by this request for endorsement dollars. The band had originally tried to gain endorsement fees from some of the products named in the albumвЂ™s вЂњcommercialsвЂќ, but were unsuccessful in this attempt. Like the bulk of The WhoвЂ™s material, the album was mainly conceived and written by guitarist Pete Townshend, but did include songwriting and vocal contributions from all band members. Differing opinions have the album either tributing or mocking (or both) the pirate radio station Radio London, which operated for three years on a ship before it was shut down earlier in 1967. Another aspect of the album is its nod to pirate radio.

Differing from later (and more famous) concept albums by the band, The Who Sell Out is a collection of unrelated songs joined together by public service announcements and original commercial jingles composed by the band using actual commercial products. This all commenced with the 1966 album A Quick One and continued with their 1967 album The Who Sell Out. From this conflict emerges a pop art masterpiece.After establishing themselves as a successful singles band in the mid 1960s, The Who made a concerted effort to concentrate on making cohesive albums. In this sense Sell Out is a reflective work, one that struggles with rock and roll as a cultural expression that aspires to aesthetic permanence while marketed as ephemera. Not the clichГ©d mantra of sex, drugs, and rock and roll but in the ways that commercial advertising fabricates a youth-oriented cultural reality by hawking pimple cream, deodorant, food, musical equipment, etc., and linking it with rock and roll. As much as it is an expression of the band's expanding sonic palette, Sell Out also functions as a critique of the rock and roll lifestyle. Sell Out, powerfully and ecstatically, articulates the nexus of pop music and pop culture.

In the 36 years since its release, Sell Out, though still not the best selling release in The Who's catalog, has been embraced by a growing number of fans who regard it as the band's best work, one of the few recordings of the late 1960s that best represents the ambitious aesthetic possibilities of the concept album without becoming mired in a bog of smug, self-aggrandizing, high art aspirations. in January 1968, The Who Sell Out was, according to critic Dave Marsh, a complete backfire-the album sold well, but not spectacularly ultimately a nostalgic in-joke: Who but a pop intellectual could appreciate such a thing? Further rarifying its in-joke status was its unapologetic Englishness 13 tracks stitched together in a mock pirate radio broadcast, without a DJ, with cool, anglocentric commercials to boot.