The Who – Face Dances

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RSD 2021 June drop, quantity 6,500.

Hype sticker affixed to shrink, with catalog number 3543227:
The Who Face Dances.
40th anniversary edition of the legendary 1981 album - expanded to 18 tracks across two LPs!
Double LP on yellow and blue coloured heavyweight vinyl
Includes the single 'You Better You Bet', an unreleased take of 'Don't Let Go The Coat' plus live tracks from the 1981 Rockpalast concert and many others
Cut at Abbey Road Studios using the Half-Speed Mastering process
Exclusive for Record Store Day 2021
Record Store Day UK

Includes Obi-style wrapper:
Mastered at Abbey Road Studios Half Speed Mastering
This record was cut using a specialist technique known as half-speed mastering.
This artisan process results in cuts that have superior high frequency response (treble) and very solid and stable stereo images.
In short, a very high quality master that helps to create a very high quality record.

℗ 2021 Polydor Ltd. (UK), © 2021 Polydor Ltd. (UK). A Universal Music Company. Made in the EU.
Universal Music B.V. 's-Gravelandseweg 80, 1217 EW Hilversum, Netherlands.

First catalog number (3543227) on spine, jacket back.
Second catalog number (006024 353227 4) on jacket back, labels.

Sticker: Made in Netherlands
On labels: Made in the Netherlands

Issued in non-gatefold jacket. Includes four 12" x 12" portrait prints. LPs housed in heavy-stock printed inner sleeves with lyrics and credits, catalog numbers 3543288 and 3543299.

Tracks C1 to C4: From the Face Dances sessions
Track C5: Alternate take from the Face Dances Sessions. Pete On lead vocal
Tracks D1 to D4: All tracks recorded live at Essen, Germany and broadcast on Rockpalast, 1981

Original album:
Recorded at Odyssey Recording Studios, London
Mixed at Bayshore Recording Studios, Coconut Grove, Florida
Disc mastering, Sterling Sound, NYC
Recorded and mixed using MCI consoles and tape machines

Track C5: Recorded at Odyssey Recording Studios, London, November 1980.

Tracks A1 to C4: Produced for Pandora Productions.
Tracks D1 to D4:
Recorded at Grugahalle, Essen, Germany on Saturday 28 March 1981 and broadcast live for Rockpalast on Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) TV.

Remastered at Close to the Edge
Additional mixing at FX Studios, North Acton
Lacquers cut using the Half-Speed Mastering Process at Abbey Road Studios.

Originally released as a single disc (Disc 1) on 6 March 1981 on Polydor Records 2302 106 (WHOD 5073) in the UK. And on Warner Bros. WB HS 3516 in the US. It reached #2 in the UK LP chart and #4 in the US Billboard Album Chart.

Track publishers:
A1 to A3, A5 to B2, B4, C5, D1, D2, D4: © Eel Pie Publishing Ltd.
A4, B3, D3: © Whistle Rhymes Ltd.
C1 to C3, © Eel Pie Publishing Ltd./Windswept Pacific Publishing.
C4: © Spirit Music Publishing Ltd.

Portraits of The Who on the cover are by 16 different artists.