The Who Live at Leeds

This is the only known footage of The Who at Leeds University on Valentine's Day, 1970, when their legendary Live at Leeds album was recorded. Someone took all of the fragments and stitched them together and synced them with the album...this is incredible stuff and it's a damn shame film of the entire show isn't available.

This is great stuff! No light shows, no lasers or smoke bombs, no backing dancers or video screens...just 4 guys on stage in a college dining hall/refectory playing some of the most exciting, ass-kicking rock of all time.

I've also been able to collect as many photos as I can find on the Internet from that legendary night, which I've posted below (NONE OF THESE PHOTOS ARE MINE, I make no claims to them as my own, and the copyright belongs to the owners, NOT ME). If you know of any more, please let me know...I'd love to see them!

Here's the University of Leeds' website dedicated to commemorating this special night.

Were you there in Leeds that night in 1970? Or did you ever see the Who live back when they were truly THE WHO, when Keith Moon was alive (ie pre-1978). If so, please leave a comment, I'd love to discuss it with you!

Backstage photos:

Kim and Keith Moon

Pete and Karen Townshend

 

John Entwistle and Kim Moon

 

 

 

 
The stage being set up before the show:

The concert:

 

 

Some pictures of the crowd that night, and a picture of the recording equipment used to capture the music...it was set up in the kitchen!