Release date: 30-06-2007 (originally released in 1972)

2007 US exclusive 9-track 2-LP set pressed on 200gram QUIEX SUPER VINYL, originally released in 1972 and his first official solo album which showcases a more stripped down sound than previous outings with The Who, including recordings taken from the scrapped 'Lifehouse' concept album project, presented in gatefold picture sleeve housed in a sealed perforated tear strip bag!

Tracks:
01. Pure & Easy
02. Evolution
03. Forever's No Time At All
04. Let's See Action
05. Time Is Passing
06. Heartache
07. Sheraton Gibson
08. Content
09. Parvardiga

Pete Townshend's first solo album was a homespun, charming forum for low-key, personal songs that weren't deemed suitable for the Who, as well as spiritual paeans (direct and indirect) to his spiritual guru Meher Baba. Who fans will be immediately attracted by the presence of a couple of songs from the aborted Who concept album Lifehouse (much of which ended up on Who's Next), "Pure & Easy" and "Let's See Action." The Who did eventually release their own versions of both those songs. But Townshend's own versions aren't the highlights of this record, which shows a folkier and gentler side to the Who's chief muse than his albums with the group. "Sheraton Gibson" is a neat tune about rock & roll road life, and "Time Is Passing" takes very subtle inspiration from Baba. Most of the rest of the album contains some of the most unusual pieces Townshend has released: his acoustic cover of Jim Reeves' "There's a Heartache Following Me" (recorded because it was one of Baba's favorite tunes), "Evolution" (which is actually pretty much a solo track by his buddy Ronnie Lane of the Faces), "Parvardigar" (adapted from Baba's Universal Prayer), and "Content" (a philosophical poem by Maud Kennedy that Townshend put to music). The 1993 reissue of this LP for compact disc fleshes out the program considerably with six previously unreleased tracks, including Townshend's demo of the Who single "The Seeker." The other bonus cuts are by no means filler; meditative and melancholy originals, they're just as strong as the tracks on the original release.