The Who
Endless Wire

Healthy Author Rock for the much-discussed return of the Who.    

Nineteen tracks, almost sixty minutes of music, a mini-opera (Wire & Glass) as the backbone of the album: all the elements would be there to validate the senile madness of Pete Townshend, guitarist and main composer of the Who. Yet Pete, even thanks to the help of the other survivor Roger Daltrey, can continue to compose music with impunity as if a quarter of a century hadn't passed since the group's last official album, the negligible It's Hard from 1982.   
  
Townshend's artistic vitality, hit hard by the accusation of pedophilia he suffered a few years ago due to some of his dangerous online acquaintances, emerges strongly in every single piece of Endless Wire. The death of bassist John Entwistle, which occurred in 2002, seemed the final nail in the coffin for the Who's adventure, who had been without the never too mourned drummer Keith Moon since 1978. Townshend, however, surprised everyone by releasing a work complex in terms of content, musically very simple and straightforward. Fragments and We Got A Hit are, among the rock tracks, the highlights of a fundamentally acoustic album.   
  
Many Dylan-style ballads capture attention: above all, the invective of A Man In A Purple Dress, dedicated to those who are used to judging their fellow men from a questionable pulpit. The return of the Who is unexpected and, for today's times, quite welcome.   
Townshend may be half-deaf, and Daltrey may no longer have the voice he used to, but we are sure that this will not stop the two "kids" now in their sixties from shaking us again with some good old rock 'n' roll.   
  
Tracklist:   
1. Fragments  
2. Man in a Purple Dress  
3. Mike Post Theme  
4. In the Ether  
5. Black Widow's Eyes  
6. Two Thousand Years  
7. God Speaks of Marty Robbins  
8. It's Not Enough  
9. You Stand by Me  
10. Sound Round  
11. Pick Up the Peace  
12. Unholy Trinity  
13. Trilby's Piano  
14. Endless Wire  
15. Fragments of Fragments  
16. We Got a Hit  
17. They Made My Dream Come True