Who Are You by The Who

Who Are You, the Who's eighth studio album, landed on 18 August 1978 on Polydor in Britain and three days later on MCA in America, with Glyn Johns and Jon Astley producing. It's the last Who album with Keith Moon on drums. He died three weeks after it came out, and the words "Not to Be Taken Away" stenciled on his chair in the cover photo turned eerie overnight.

The reviews were mixed, but the record did fine without them, climbing to number 2 on the Billboard 200 and number 6 in the UK. Daltrey, Townshend, Entwistle and Moon go out as a hard-rock band with plenty of muscle left, and the title track is the one that stuck, still turning up on rock countdowns decades later. It closed the book on the classic lineup; Kenney Jones would be the one behind the kit next.

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