Endless Wire by The Who

Endless Wire, the Who's eleventh studio album, came out through Polydor on 30 October 2006 and a day later in the US on Universal Republic, and it ended a long drought: 24 years had passed since It's Hard in 1982 without a new album of original material. It was also the first without John Entwistle, whose death in 2002 had pushed the whole project back; it had been pencilled in for early 2005 under the working title WHO2.

Pete Townshend produced, with Roger Daltrey still roaring where it counts. Much of it grew into the rock musical The Boy Who Heard Music, workshopped at Vassar College's Powerhouse Summer Theater in July 2007, a reminder that the band that helped invent the rock opera had not lost the taste for it. Reviews were mostly warm, it debuted at No. 7 in the US and No. 9 in the UK, and songs from it found their way into the 2006-2007 tour.

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