Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorEven in the context of the Who’s odd catalog, ”The Who Sell Out” is an oddity. Released in December 1967, the group’s third album is both an outlier and a bridge to the greatness that was to come, an unlikely collection of psychedelia, gentle heartbreak songs and neo-science fiction, all connected by a series of mock advertisements for everything from drums to deodorant performed by the group (hence the album’s title).It’s a jarring contrast to both the smash-bang pop that launched the band and the rock gods they would soon become: The “sell out” conceit stretched to the cover, which featured singer Roger Daltrey sitting in a bathtub filled with Heinz baked beans and guitarist-songwriter Pete Townshend putting.
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