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STUNNING DELUXE RED, WHITE AND BLUE TRIPLE VINYL OF THE WHOS LEGENDARY LIVE ALBUM.

Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 is a double live album by The Who, recorded at the Isle of Wight Festival on 29 August 1970, and released by Sony in 1996. A DVD of the concert was also released. The Who were one year and three months into their Tommy tour when they played their second engagement at the Isle of Wight Festival. As in 1969, they played most of their famous rock opera, which by this time was quite familiar to the festival crowd. Huge spotlights bathed the audience of some 600,000 attendees, and as The Whos tour manager John Woolf recalls, attracted every moth and flying nocturnal animal on the island. By August 1970, Pete Townshend was already introducing new songs to the setlist including Water, I Dont Even Know Myself and Naked Eye. These songs, which were being recorded at the time of the festival, were intended for an upcoming project known as Lifehouse. Although Lifehouse was eventually abandoned, the sessions paved the way to the Whos classic album Whos Next. The Who also performed some live staples such as Heaven and Hell, Substitute, My Generation, Magic Bus, I Cant Explain, and the perennial covers of Shakin All Over and Summertime Blues.