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{{Infobox album
| name       = Who's Next
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[the Who]]
| cover      = Whosnext.jpg
| alt        = A photograph of the Who walking away from a stone monolith and zipping up their pants, with visible streaks of urine on the structure
| released   = {{start date|1971|8|2|df=yes}}<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.riaa.com/gold-platinum/?tab_active=default-award&ar=The+Who&ti=Who%27s+Next&format=Album|title=RIAA certifications|website=[[Recording Industry Association of America]] }}</ref>
| recorded   = April–June 1971
| studio     =
* [[Olympic Studios|Olympic]], London, England{{sfn|Neill|Kent|2002|pp=282–284}}
* [[Stargroves]], [[East Woodhay]], England ([[Rolling Stones Mobile Studio]]){{sfn|Neill|Kent|2002|p=280}}
| genre      =
* [[Hard rock]]
* [[arena rock]]<ref name= "Pitchfork Staff 2004">{{cite web|last= Pitchfork Staff |title= The 100 Best Albums of the 1970s |website= [[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |date=23 June 2004 |url= https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/5932-top-100-albums-of-the-1970s/?page=1|quote= ...Who's Next is paradoxically also the first record on which an arena-rock band sounds downright Wembley Stadium–large.|accessdate=18 April 2023}}</ref><ref name= "EW Staff 2019">{{cite magazine|last= EW Staff |title= Top 100 Albums |magazine= [[Entertainment Weekly]] |date=27 September 2012|url= https://ew.com/gallery/top-100-albums/?slide=384754#384754|accessdate=5 May 2023}}</ref><ref name= "RS 2004">{{cite book |chapter= The Who|last= Kemp|first= Mark|title=[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide|The New Rolling Stone Album Guide]] |year=2004 |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |edition=4th |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |pages = 871–873}}</ref>
| length     = {{Duration|m=43|s=39}}
| label      = 
* [[Track Records|Track]] (UK)
* [[Decca Records|Decca]] (US)
| producer   =
* The Who
* [[Glyn Johns]] (associate producer)
* [[Kit Lambert]] (tracks 10, 11, 16)

| prev_title = [[Live at Leeds]]
| prev_year  = 1970
| next_title = [[Meaty Beaty Big and Bouncy]]
| next_year  = 1971
| misc       = {{Singles
 | name        = Who's Next
 | type        = studio
 | single1     = [[Won't Get Fooled Again]]
 | single1date = 25 June 1971<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thewho.com/index.php?module=discography&discography_item_id=40&discography_tag=singles |title=Discography&nbsp;– Won't Get Fooled Again |publisher=The Who (official website) |access-date=6 November 2010 |archive-date=15 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815204315/https://www.thewho.com/?module=discography&discography_item_id=40&discography_tag=singles |url-status=live }}</ref>
 | single2     = [[Baba O'Riley]]
 | single2date = October 1971 (Europe)
 | single3     = [[Behind Blue Eyes]]
 | single3date = October 1971 (US)
}}}}

'''''Who's Next''''' is the fifth studio album by the English rock band [[the Who]], released on 2 August 1971, by [[Track Records]] in the United Kingdom and on August 2, 1971 by [[Decca Records]] in the United States. It developed from the aborted ''[[Lifehouse (rock opera)|Lifehouse]]'' project, a multi-media [[rock opera]] conceived by the group's guitarist [[Pete Townshend]] as a follow-up to the band's 1969 album ''[[Tommy (The Who album)|Tommy]]''. The project was cancelled owing to its complexity and to conflicts with [[Kit Lambert]], the band's manager, but the group salvaged some of the songs, without the connecting story elements, to release as their next album. Eight of the nine songs on ''Who's Next'' were from ''Lifehouse'', with the lone exception being the [[John Entwistle]]–penned "[[My Wife (song)|My Wife]]". Ultimately, the remaining ''Lifehouse'' tracks would all be released on other albums throughout the next decade.

The Who recorded ''Who's Next'' with assistance from recording engineer [[Glyn Johns]]. After producing the song "[[Won't Get Fooled Again]]" in the [[Rolling Stones Mobile Studio]], they relocated to [[Olympic Studios]] to record and mix most of the album's remaining songs. They made prominent use of [[synthesizers]] on the album, particularly on "Won't Get Fooled Again" and "[[Baba O'Riley]]", which were both released as [[single (music)|singles]]. The cover photo was shot by [[Ethan Russell]]; it made reference to the [[monolith (Space Odyssey)|monolith]] in the 1968 film ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]'', as it featured the band standing by a concrete piling protruding from a [[slag heap]] in South Yorkshire, apparently having urinated against it.

The album was an immediate critical and commercial success and has since been viewed by many critics as the Who's best album, as well as one of the greatest albums of all time. It has been reissued on [[compact disc|CD]] several times, often with additional songs originally intended for ''Lifehouse'' included as bonus tracks. In 2020, ''Who's Next'' was ranked number 77 on ''[[Rolling Stone]]''{{'}}s list of the "[[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|500 Greatest Albums of All Time]]".

==Background==
{{See also|Lifehouse (rock opera)}}

By 1970, the Who had obtained significant critical and commercial success, but they had started to become detached from their original audience. The [[mod (subculture)|mod movement]] had vanished, and the original followers from [[Shepherd's Bush]] had grown up and acquired jobs and families. The group had started to drift apart from manager [[Kit Lambert]], owing to his preoccupation with his label, [[Track Records]].{{sfn|Marsh|1983|p=361}} They had been touring since the release of ''[[Tommy (The Who album)|Tommy]]'' the previous May, with a set that contained most of that album, but realised that millions had now seen their live performances, and [[Pete Townshend]] in particular recognised that they needed to do something new.{{sfn|Marsh|1983|p=363}} A single, "[[The Seeker (The Who song)|The Seeker]]", and a live album, ''[[Live at Leeds]]'', were released in 1970,{{sfn|Marsh|1983|p=358}} and an EP of new material ("Water", "Naked Eye", "I Don't Even Know Myself", "Postcard", and "Now I'm a Farmer") was recorded, but not released, as the band felt it would not be a satisfactory follow-up to ''Tommy''.{{sfn|Marsh|1983|p=365}}

Instead, the group tackled a project called ''[[Lifehouse (rock opera)|Lifehouse]]''. This evolved from a series of columns Townshend wrote for ''[[Melody Maker]]'' in August 1970, in which he discussed the importance of rock music, and in particular what the audience could do.{{sfn|Marsh|1983|p=368}} Of all the group, he was the most keen to use music as a communication device, and wanted to branch out into other media, including film, to get away from the traditional album/tour cycle.{{sfn|Neill|Kent|2002|p=272}} Townshend has variously described ''Lifehouse'' as a futuristic [[rock opera]], a live-recorded [[concept album]] and as the music for a scripted film project.{{sfn|Marsh|1983|p=369}} The basic plot was outlined in an interview Townshend gave to ''Disc and Music Echo'' on 24 October 1970.{{sfn|Neill|Kent|2002|p=250}} ''Lifehouse'' is set in the near future in a society in which music is banned and most of the population live indoors in government-controlled "experience suits". A rebel, Bobby, broadcasts rock music into the suits, allowing people to remove them and become more enlightened. Some elements accurately describe future technology; for example, The Grid resembles [[the internet]] and "grid sleep" resembles [[virtual reality]].{{sfn|Neill|Kent|2002|p=273}}

[[File:G-6120 2.jpg|thumb|130px|[[Pete Townshend]] was given a [[Gretsch 6120]] guitar by [[Joe Walsh]] in early 1971, and it became his main electric instrument for ''Who's Next'']]

The group held a press conference on 13 January 1971, explaining that they would be giving a series of concerts at the [[Young Vic]] theatre, where they would develop the fictional elements of the proposed film along with the audience.{{sfn|Neill|Kent|2002|p=273}} After [[Keith Moon]] had completed his work on the film ''[[200 Motels]]'', the group performed their first Young Vic concert on 15 February. The show included a new quadrophonic [[public address system]] which cost £30,000; the audience was mainly invited from various organisations, such as youth clubs, with only a few tickets on sale to the general public.{{sfn|Neill|Kent|2002|p=278}}

After the initial concerts, at Lambert's suggestion the group flew to New York to make studio recordings at [[Record Plant Studios]]. They were joined by guests [[Al Kooper]] on [[Hammond organ]], [[Ken Ascher]] on piano, and [[Leslie West]] on guitar. Townshend used a 1957 [[Gretsch]] guitar, given to him by [[Joe Walsh]], during the session; it went on to become his main guitar for studio recording.{{sfn|Neill|Kent|2002|p=279}} Lambert's participation in the recording was minimal, and he proved to be unable to mix the final recordings.{{sfn|Neill|Kent|2002|p=280}} He had started taking hard drugs, while Townshend was drinking brandy regularly.{{sfn|Neill|Kent|2002|p=274}} After returning to Britain, engineer [[Glyn Johns]] made safety copies of the Record Plant material, but decided it would be better to re-record the album from scratch at [[Olympic Sound Studios]] in [[Barnes, London|Barnes]].{{sfn|Neill|Kent|2002|p=280}}

The group gave two more concerts at the Young Vic on 25 and 26 April, which were recorded on the [[Rolling Stones Mobile Studio]] by [[Andy Johns]], but Townshend grew disillusioned with ''Lifehouse'' and further shows were cancelled.{{sfn|Neill|Kent|2002|p=281}} Audiences at the Young Vic gigs were not interested in interacting with the group to create new material, but simply wanted the Who to play "[[My Generation]]" and smash a guitar.{{sfn|Marsh|1983|p=377}} The project proved to be intractable on several levels, and caused stress within the band, as well as a major falling-out between Townshend and Lambert. Years later, in the liner notes to the remastered CD, Townshend wrote that the failure of the project led him to the verge of a [[nervous breakdown]].{{sfn|Townshend|2003|p=6}} At the time, [[Roger Daltrey]] said the Who "were never nearer to breaking up".{{sfn|Neill|Kent|2002|p=282}}

Although the ''Lifehouse'' concept was abandoned, scraps of the project remained in the final album, including the use of synthesizers and computers.{{sfn|Atkins|2003|p=13}} An early concept for ''Lifehouse'' featured the feeding of personal data from audience members into the controller of an early [[Analog signal|analogue]] synthesizer to create a "universal chord" that would have ended the proposed film.{{sfn|Atkins|2003|p=14}} Abandoning ''Lifehouse'' gave the group extra freedom, owing to the absence of an overriding musical theme or storyline (which had been present in ''Tommy''). This allowed the band to concentrate on maximising the impact of individual tracks and providing a unifying sound for them.{{sfn|Marsh|1983|p=383}}

Townshend continued to develop the concepts of the ''Lifehouse'' project, revisiting them in later albums, including a 6-CD set, ''[[The Lifehouse Chronicles]]'', in 1999.{{sfn|Townshend|2003|p=9}} In 2007, he launched a (now defunct) website called [[The Lifehouse Method]] to accept personal input from applicants that would be turned into musical portraits.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lifehouse-method.com|title=The Lifehouse Method (official website)|access-date=25 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080518072215/http://www.lifehouse-method.com/|archive-date=18 May 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Recording and production==
[[File:Olympic Studios, London.jpg|thumb|Most of ''Who's Next'' was recorded at [[Olympic Studios]] in [[Barnes, London|Barnes]] with [[Glyn Johns]].]]

The first session for what became ''Who's Next'' was at [[Mick Jagger]]'s house, [[Stargroves]], at the start of April 1971, using the Rolling Stones Mobile. The backing track of "[[Won't Get Fooled Again]]" was recorded there{{sfn|Neill|Kent|2002|p=280}} before the band decided to relocate recording to Olympic at Johns' suggestion;{{sfn|Marsh|1983|p=381}} the first session there was on 9 April, attempting a basic take of "[[Bargain (song)|Bargain]]".{{sfn|Neill|Kent|2002|p=281}} The bulk of the sessions occurred during May, when the group recorded "Time Is Passing", "[[Pure and Easy]]", "[[Love Ain't for Keeping]]" (which had been reworked from a rock track into an acoustic arrangement), "[[Behind Blue Eyes]]", "[[The Song Is Over]]", "[[Let's See Action]]" and "[[Baba O'Riley]]". [[Nicky Hopkins]] guested on piano, while [[Dave Arbus]] was invited by Moon to play violin on "Baba O'Riley". [[John Entwistle]]'s "My Wife" was added to the album very late in the sessions, having been originally intended for a solo album.{{sfn|Neill|Kent|2002|p=282}}

In contrast to the Record Plant and Young Vic sessions, recording with Johns went well, as he was primarily concerned with creating a good sound, whereas Lambert had always been more preoccupied with the group's image; Townshend recalled: "we were just getting astounded at the sounds Glyn was producing".{{sfn|Neill|Kent|2002|p=282}} Townshend used early synthesizers and modified keyboard sounds in several modes, including as a [[drone (music)|drone]] effect on several songs, notably "Baba O'Riley" and "Won't Get Fooled Again",{{sfn|Marsh|1983|p=382}} but also "Bargain", "[[Going Mobile]]", and "The Song Is Over". The synthesizer was used as an integral part of the sound, as opposed to providing gloss, as was the case on other artists' albums up to that point.{{sfn|Atkins|2003|p=18}} Moon's drumming has a distinctly different style from earlier albums, being more formal and less reliant on long drum fills—partly owing to the synthesizer backing, but also due to the no-nonsense production techniques of Johns, who insisted on a good recording performance that used flamboyance only when truly necessary.{{sfn|Fletcher|1998|p=286}} Johns was instrumental in convincing the Who that they should simply put a single-disc studio album out, believing the songs to be excellent. The group gave him free rein to assemble an album of whatever songs he wanted, in any order.{{sfn|Marsh|1983|p=382}} Despite Johns' key contributions, he only received an "associate producer" credit on the finished album,{{sfn|Neill|Kent|2002|p=282}} though he maintained he acted mainly in an engineering capacity and based most of the arrangements on Townshend's original demos.{{sfn|Unterberger|2011|p=105}}

[[File:ARP 2500.jpg|thumb|left|An [[ARP Instruments|ARP]] synthesizer similar to the one used on ''Who's Next'']]

The album opened with "Baba O'Riley", featuring piano and synthesizer-processed [[Lowrey organ]] by Townshend. The song's title pays homage to Townshend's guru, [[Meher Baba]], and [[minimalism|minimalist]] composer [[Terry Riley]], and it is informally known as "Teenage Wasteland", in reference to a line in the lyrics.{{sfn|Neill|Kent|2002|p=275}} The organ track came from a longer demo by Townshend, portions of which were later included on a Baba tribute album ''I Am'',{{sfn|Marsh|1983|p=386}} that was edited down for the final recording. Townshend later said this part had "two or three thousand edits to it".{{sfn|Unterberger|2011|p=108}} The opening lyrics to the next track, "Bargain" ("I'd gladly lose me to find you") came from a phrase used by Baba.{{sfn|Neill|Kent|2002|p=275}} Entwistle wrote "My Wife" after having an argument with his wife, exaggerating the conflict in the lyrics. The track features several overdubbed brass instruments recorded in a single half-hour session.{{sfn|Unterberger|2011|p=113}} "Pure and Easy", a key track from ''Lifehouse'', did not make the final track selection, but the opening line was included as a coda to "The Song Is Over".{{sfn|Neill|Kent|2002|p=275}}

"Behind Blue Eyes" featured three-part harmony by Daltrey, Townshend, and Entwistle and was written for the main antagonist in ''Lifehouse'', Jumbo. Moon, uncharacteristically, did not appear on the first half of the track, which was later described by Who biographer [[Dave Marsh]] as "the longest time Keith Moon was still in his entire life."{{sfn|Marsh|1983|p=386}} The closing track, "Won't Get Fooled Again", was critical of revolutions. Townshend explained: "a revolution is only a revolution in the long run and a lot of people are going to get hurt".{{sfn|Neill|Kent|2002|p=275}} The song features the Lowrey organ fed through an [[ARP Instruments|ARP]] synthesizer, which came from Townshend's original demo and was re-used for the finished track.{{sfn|Marsh|1983|p=381}}

==Cover art==
The front cover of the album is a photograph, taken on 4 July 1971 on the way from Sheffield to Leicester, of the band apparently having just collectively urinated on a large concrete piling protruding from a [[slag heap]].{{sfn|Neill|Kent|2002|p=200}} The idea to shoot the picture came from Entwistle and Moon discussing [[Stanley Kubrick]] and the film ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]''.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Who: Concert File |first1=Joe |last1=McMichael |first2=Jack |last2=Lyons |publisher=Omnibus Press |page=480 |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-857-12737-2}}</ref> According to photographer [[Ethan Russell]], only Townshend actually urinated against the piling, so rainwater was tipped from an empty film canister to achieve the desired effect. The sky in the background was added later by [[John Kosh]], who was the art director, to give the image what Russell called "this other worldly quality."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hobbs |first1=Thomas |title='I took the last ever shot of the Beatles – and they were miserable!' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/feb/10/ethan-russell-photographer-beatles-last-photo-rolling-stones-the-who |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=10 February 2019 |date=10 February 2019 |archive-date=10 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190210171522/https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/feb/10/ethan-russell-photographer-beatles-last-photo-rolling-stones-the-who |url-status=live }}</ref> The rear cover shows the band backstage at [[De Montfort Hall]], [[Leicester]], amid a cluttered mess of furniture.{{sfn|Neill|Kent|2002|p=285}} In 2003, the television channel [[VH1]] named the cover of ''Who's Next'' one of the greatest album covers of all time.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vh1.com/photos/gallery/?fid=1486056&page=2&thumbnails=true |title=The Greatest Album Covers&nbsp;– Photos |publisher=VH1 |access-date=6 November 2010 |archive-date=29 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029202037/http://www.vh1.com/photos/gallery/?fid=1486056&page=2&thumbnails=true |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Other suggestions for the cover included the group urinating against a [[Marshall Stack]] and an overweight nude woman with the Who's faces in place of her genitalia.{{sfn|Neill|Kent|2002|p=285}} An alternative cover featuring Moon dressed in black [[lingerie]] and a brown wig and holding a whip was later used as part of the inside art of the 1995 and 2003 CD releases of the album. Some of the photographs taken during these sessions were also used as part of Decca's United States promotion of the album.<ref name="Atkins 1995 13, 24">{{cite AV media notes |title=Who's Next |others=The Who |year=1995|orig-year= 1971 |chapter=''Who's Next'' and ''The Lifehouse Project'' |first=John |last=Atkins |pages=13, 24 |type=CD liner |publisher=MCA Records |id=MCAD-11269}}</ref>

==Release and promotion==
[[File:The Who at Charlotte, NC (1971).jpg|thumb|The Who playing in [[Charlotte, North Carolina]], shortly after ''Who's Next'' was released]]

The lead single from the album, "Won't Get Fooled Again" (edited down to three and a half minutes), was released ahead of the album on 25 June 1971 in the UK and in July in the US; it reached #9 and #15 in the charts of the respective countries.{{sfn|Neill|Kent|2002|p=284}} The album was released on 2 August in the US and on 27 August in the UK. It became the only album by the Who to top the UK charts.{{sfn|Neill|Kent|2002|p=288}}

The Who started touring the US just before the album was released.{{sfn|Marsh|1983|p=389}} They used the ''Lifehouse'' PA, though soundman [[Bob Pridden]] found the technical requirements of the equipment to be over-complicated.{{sfn|Marsh|1983|p=390}} The set list was revamped, and, while it included a smaller selection of numbers from ''Tommy'', several songs from the new album, such as "My Wife", "Baba O'Riley", and "Won't Get Fooled Again", became live favourites. The latter two songs involved the band playing to a [[backing track]] containing the synthesizer parts.{{sfn|Marsh|1983|p=392}} The tour moved to the UK in September, including a show at [[The Oval]] in [[Kennington]] in front of 35,000 fans and the opening gig at the [[Rainbow Theatre]] in Finsbury Park, before going back to the US, ending in [[Seattle]] on 15 December. The group then took eight months off touring, the longest break of their career at that point.{{sfn|Marsh|1983|p=393}}

Several songs recorded at the ''Who's Next'' sessions, but not included on the album, were later released as singles or on compilations. "Let's See Action" was released as a single in 1971,{{sfn|Marsh|1983|p=383}} while "Pure and Easy" and "Too Much of Anything" were released on ''[[Odds & Sods]]'',{{sfn|Marsh|1983|p=383}} and "Time is Passing" was added to the 1998 CD version of that album.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/odds-sods-mw0000201469|title=Odds & Sods|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=23 November 2014|archive-date=15 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815204313/https://www.allmusic.com/album/odds-sods-mw0000201469|url-status=live}}</ref> The longest version of the cover "[[Baby Don't You Do It]]" from the sessions that is currently available is on the 2003 deluxe edition of ''Who's Next''.{{sfn|Atkins|2003|p=24}}

The album has been re-issued and remastered several times using tapes from different sessions. The master tapes for the Olympic sessions are believed to be lost, as [[Virgin Records]] threw out a substantial number of old recordings when they purchased the studio in the 1980s.{{sfn|Unterberger|2011|p=107}} Video game publisher [[Harmonix]] wanted to release ''Who's Next'' as downloadable, playable content for the [[music video game]] series ''[[Rock Band]]'', but were unable to do so due to their inability to find the original [[multitrack recording]]s. Instead, a compilation of Who songs dubbed ''The Best of The Who'', which includes three of the album's songs ("Behind Blue Eyes", "Baba O'Riley", and "Going Mobile") was released as downloadable content.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Cavalli|first=Earnest|url=http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/07/whos-next-repla.html|title=Who's Next Replaced by Compilation for Rock Band|magazine=[[Wired News]]|date=1 July 2008|access-date=25 November 2014|archive-date=2 January 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090102101100/http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/07/whos-next-repla.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The 16-track tapes for "Won't Get Fooled Again" and the 8-track tapes for the other material, except for "Bargain" and "[[Getting in Tune]]", have since been discovered.{{sfn|Unterberger|2011|p=107}}

==Critical reception and legacy==
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| rev1      = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="AllmusicReview">{{cite web | url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r21820/review|pure_url=yes}} | title=Allmusic review | website=[[AllMusic]] | first=Stephen Thomas | last=Erlewine | access-date=22 June 2011}}</ref>
| rev2      = ''[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies|Christgau's Record Guide]]''
| rev2score = A<ref name="CG">{{cite book|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|year=1981|title=[[Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies]]|publisher=[[Ticknor & Fields]]|isbn=089919026X|chapter=Consumer Guide '70s: W|chapter-url=https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=W&bk=70|access-date=9 March 2019|via=robertchristgau.com|archive-date=10 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200510072755/https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_chap.php?k=W&bk=70|url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev3      = ''[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]''
| rev3score = {{Rating|5|5}}<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book|last=Larkin|first=Colin|author-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|title=[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|page=5812|edition=3rd|year=1998|publisher=[[Muze|Muze UK]]|isbn=1561592374|volume=7}}</ref>
| rev4      = ''[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]''
| rev4score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="Mojo">{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]|location=London|page=110|date=May 2003|quote=WHO'S NEXT is The Who's most polished album, its hook-ridden songs pioneering the use of rock synthesizers without diluting the power-quartet attack that had defined the group since the mid-60s...|title=none}}</ref>
| rev5      = ''[[MusicHound|MusicHound Rock]]''
| rev5score = 5/5<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Graff|editor1-first=Gary|editor2-last=Durchholz|editor2-first=Daniel|title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide|publisher=Visible Ink Press|location=Farmington Hills, MI|year=1999|isbn=1-57859-061-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781578590612/page/1227 1227]|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781578590612/page/1227}}</ref>
| rev6      = ''[[Q (magazine)|Q]]''
| rev6score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref name="Qmag">{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Q (magazine)|Q]]|location=London|page=158|date=January 1996|quote=Considered by many to be the band's best, 1971's WHO'S NEXT was their only Number 1 album...|title=none}}</ref>
| rev7      = ''[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide]]'' 
| rev7score = {{rating|5|5}}<ref name= "RS 2004">{{cite book |chapter= The Who|last= Kemp|first= Mark|title=[[The Rolling Stone Album Guide|The New Rolling Stone Album Guide]] |year=2004 |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |edition=4th |editor1-last=Brackett |editor1-first=Nathan |editor2-last=Hoard |editor2-first=Christian |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |pages = 871–873}}</ref>
| rev8      = ''[[Tom Hull – on the Web]]''
| rev8score = A+<ref>{{cite web|last=Hull|first=Tom|author-link=Tom Hull (critic)|date=n.d.|url=http://tomhull.com/ocston/nm/get_gl.php?n=The+Who|title=Grade List: The Who|website=Tom Hull – on the Web|access-date=19 July 2020|archive-date=19 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200719114331/http://tomhull.com/ocston/nm/get_gl.php?n=The+Who|url-status=live}}</ref>
| rev9     = ''[[The Village Voice]]''
| rev9score = {{Rating-Christgau|A+}}<ref name="Christgau">{{cite news|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|date=19 August 1971|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg19.php|title=Consumer Guide (19)|newspaper=[[The Village Voice]]|location=New York|access-date=9 March 2013|archive-date=1 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210401060800/https://platform.twitter.com/widgets/widget_iframe.0edc1ef9f8b82d9b79c6115bda79f63f.html?origin=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.robertchristgau.com|url-status=live}}</ref>
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Reviewing for ''[[The Village Voice]]'' in 1971, music critic [[Robert Christgau]] called ''Who's Next'' "the best hard rock album in years" and said that, while their previous recordings were marred by a thin sound, the group now "achieves the same resonant immediacy in the studio that it does live".<ref name="Christgau"/> Billy Walker from ''[[Sounds (magazine)|Sounds]]'' highlighted the songs "Baba O'Riley", "My Wife", and "The Song Is Over", and wrote: "After the unique brilliance of ''Tommy'' something special had to be thought out and the fact that they settled for a straight-forward album rather than an extension of their rock opera, says much for their courage and inventiveness."<ref>{{cite news |title= Album Reviews |first=Billy| last=Walker |newspaper=[[Sounds (magazine)|Sounds]] |publisher= Spotlight Publications |date= 28 August 1971|page= 18}}</ref> ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine's [[John Mendelsohn (musician)|John Mendelsohn]] felt that, despite some amount of seriousness and artificiality, the album's brand of rock and roll is "intelligently-conceived, superbly-performed, brilliantly-produced, and sometimes even exciting".<ref>{{Cite news |newspaper=[[Rolling Stone]] |issue=90 |date=1 September 1971 |first=John Ned |last=Mendelsohn |author-link=John Mendelsohn (musician) |title=The Who ''Who's Next'' > Album Review |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/whos-next-19970122 |access-date=14 February 2005 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050915050139/http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album/_/id/196775 |archive-date=15 September 2005}}</ref> At the end of 1971, the record was voted the best album of the year in the [[Pazz & Jop]], an annual poll of American critics published by ''The Village Voice''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pjres71.php|title=Robert Christgau: Pazz & Jop 1971: Critics Poll|publisher=Robertchristgau.com|access-date=24 October 2013|archive-date=9 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130709105538/http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pjres71.php|url-status=live}}</ref>

Retrospectively, ''Who's Next'' has often been viewed as the Who's best album.<ref name="Qmag"/> In a review for [[AllMusic]], [[Stephen Thomas Erlewine]] said its music was more genuine than ''Tommy'' or the aborted ''Lifehouse'' project because "those were art – [''Who's Next''], even with its pretensions, is rock & roll."<ref name="AllmusicReview"/> [[BBC Music]]'s Chris Roberts cited it as the band's best record and "one of those carved-in-stone landmarks that the [[rockism|rock canon]] doesn't allow you to bad-mouth."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/98zf |title=Music – Review of The Who – Who's Next |publisher=BBC |date=25 August 1971 |access-date=24 October 2013 |archive-date=15 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815204316/https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/98zf/ |url-status=live }}</ref> ''[[Mojo (magazine)|Mojo]]'' claimed its sophisticated music and [[hook (music)|hook]]-laden songs featured innovative use of rock synthesizers that did not weaken the Who's characteristic "power-quartet attack".<ref name="Mojo"/> In ''[[The Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]'' (1998), [[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]] said the album raised the standards for both hard rock and the Who, whose "sense of [[dynamics (music)|dynamics]]" was highlighted by the [[contrast (music)|contrast]] between their powerful playing and a [[counterpoint]] produced at times by acoustic guitars and synthesizer [[obbligato]]s.<ref name="Larkin"/> Christgau, on the other hand, was less enthusiastic about the record during the 1980s, when the Who became what he felt was "the worst kind of art-rock band", writing that ''Who's Next'' revealed itself to be less tasteful in retrospect because of Daltrey's histrionic singing and "all that synth noodling".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rockcriticsarchives.com/interviews/robertchristgau/02.html|title=Robert Christgau: Online Exchange, part 2|publisher=RockCritics.com|access-date=8 August 2015|archive-date=1 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401225325/http://rockcriticsarchives.com/interviews/robertchristgau/02.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2003, ''Rolling Stone'' ranked it 28th on its list of [[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time|the 500 greatest albums of all time]];<ref>{{Cite book |chapter=28 &#124; The Who, 'Who's Next' |chapter-url=http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-20120531/the-who-whos-next-20120524 |access-date=20 March 2005 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061117211904/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6598147/28_whos_next |archive-date=17 November 2006 |last=Levy |first=Joe |author2=Steven Van Zandt |title=[[Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time]] |orig-year=2005 |edition=3rd |year=2006 |publisher=Turnaround |location=London |isbn=1-932958-61-4 |oclc=70672814}}</ref> it maintained this rank on the 2012 edition of the list,<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/the-who-whos-next-169047/| year=2012| title=500 Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone's definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time| publisher=[[Rolling Stone]]| access-date=23 September 2019| archive-date=1 September 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190901102150/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/500-greatest-albums-of-all-time-156826/the-who-whos-next-169047/| url-status=live}}</ref> and was ranked 77th on the 2020 edition.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/the-who-whos-next-2-1063156/|title=Who's Next ranked 77th greatest album by Rolling Stone magazine|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=22 September 2020|access-date=13 October 2020|archive-date=18 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201018133552/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-albums-of-all-time-1062063/the-who-whos-next-2-1063156/|url-status=live}}</ref> It appeared at number 15 on [[Pitchfork Media]]'s 2004 list of the 100 best records from the 1970s,<ref>{{cite web|title=Top 100 Albums of the 1970s |work=[[Pitchfork Media]] |date=23 June 2004 |url=http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/36725-staff-list-top-100-albums-of-the-1970s/page_9 |access-date=31 December 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070505102823/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/36725-staff-list-top-100-albums-of-the-1970s/page_9 |archive-date=5 May 2007}}</ref> and was included in the book ''[[1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die]]'' (2005).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/steveparker/1001albums.htm |title=Rocklist.net...Steve Parker...1001 Albums |publisher=Rocklistmusic.co.uk |access-date=24 October 2013 |archive-date=30 January 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120130151506/http://rocklistmusic.co.uk/steveparker//1001albums.htm |url-status=usurped }}</ref> The ''Classic Albums'' [[BBC]] documentary series aired an episode on ''Who's Next'', initially on radio in 1989, and then on television in 1998,<ref>{{cite book|title=Popular Music And Television In Britain|publisher=Ashgate|editor1-first=Ian|editor1-last=Inglis|year=2013|pages=43–44|isbn=978-1-409-49417-1}}</ref> which was released in 2006 on DVD as ''[[Classic Albums|Classic Albums: The Who&nbsp;– Who's Next]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Whos-Next-Who/dp/B000I5XD24/whomovie-20|title=Classic Albums : Who's Next|date=3 October 2006 |publisher=Amazon|access-date=25 November 2014|archive-date=15 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815204351/https://www.amazon.com/Whos-Next-Who/dp/B000I5XD24/whomovie-20|url-status=live}}</ref> That year, it was chosen by ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' as one of the 100 best albums of all time.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Light |first=Alan |url=http://www.time.com/time/2006/100albums/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061201085911/http://www.time.com/time/2006/100albums/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=1 December 2006 |title=Kind of Blue |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=27 January 2010 |access-date=24 October 2013}}</ref> In 2007, the album was inducted into the [[Grammy Hall of Fame]] for "lasting qualitative or historical significance".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/music-from-led-zeppelin-elected-to-grammy-hall-of-fame/|title=Music From Led Zeppelin Elected To Grammy Hall Of Fame|publisher=blabbermouth.net|date=11 January 2007|access-date=25 November 2014|archive-date=15 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210815204316/https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/music-from-led-zeppelin-elected-to-grammy-hall-of-fame/|url-status=live}}</ref> It was voted number 48 in the third edition of [[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]'s ''[[All Time Top 1000 Albums]]''.<ref name="Larkin57">{{cite book|title=[[All Time Top 1000 Albums]]|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=2000|edition=3rd|isbn=0-7535-0493-6|page=57}}</ref>

==Track listing==
{{track listing
| headline = Side one
| extra_column= Lead vocal
| all_writing = [[Pete Townshend]], except "[[My Wife (song)|My Wife]]" by [[John Entwistle]]
| title1 = [[Baba O'Riley]]
| length1 = 5:08
| extra1 = {{flatlist|
* Daltrey {{small|(verses)}}
* Townshend {{small|(bridge)}}
}}
| title2 = [[Bargain (song)|Bargain]]
| length2 = 5:34
| extra2 = {{flatlist|
* Daltrey {{small|(verses, chorus)}}
* Townshend {{small|(bridge)}}
}}
| title3 = [[Love Ain't for Keeping]]
| length3 = 2:10
| extra3 = Daltrey
| title4 = [[My Wife (song)|My Wife]]
| length4 = 3:41
| extra4 = Entwistle
| title5 = [[The Song Is Over]]
| length5 = 6:14
| extra5 = {{flatlist|
* Townshend {{small|(verses, bridge, coda)}}
* Daltrey {{small|(chorus, coda)}}
}}

| total_length = 22:47
}}
{{track listing
| headline = Side two
| extra_column = Lead vocal
| title1 = [[Getting in Tune]]
| length1 = 4:50
| extra1 = Daltrey
| title2 = [[Going Mobile]]
| length2 = 3:42
| extra2 = Townshend
| title3 = [[Behind Blue Eyes]]
| length3 = 3:42
| extra3 = Daltrey
| title4 = [[Won't Get Fooled Again]]
| length4 = 8:32
| extra4 = Daltrey
| total_length = 20:46
}}
{{track listing
| headline = Bonus tracks on 1995 reissue
| extra_column = Lead vocal
| title1 = Pure And Easy
| length1 = 4:19
| title2 = [[Baby Don't You Do It]]
| length2 = 5:13
| title3 = Naked Eye (Live)
| length3 = 5:22
| title4 = Water (Live)
| length4 = 6:25
| title5 = Too Much of Anything
| length5 = 4:24
| title6 = I Don't Even Know Myself
| length6 = 4:54
| title7 = [[Behind Blue Eyes]]
| length7 = 3:25
}}

==Personnel==
'''The Who''' 
* [[Roger Daltrey]]&nbsp;– lead vocals
* [[Pete Townshend]]&nbsp;– guitar, [[VCS 3]], organ, [[ARP synthesizer]], vocals, piano on "Baba O'Riley"
* [[John Entwistle]]&nbsp;– bass, brass, vocals, piano on "My Wife"
* [[Keith Moon]]&nbsp;– drums, percussion

'''Additional musicians'''
* [[Dave Arbus]]&nbsp;– violin on "Baba O'Riley"
* [[Nicky Hopkins]]&nbsp;– piano on "The Song Is Over" and "Getting in Tune"
* [[Al Kooper]]&nbsp;– [[Hammond organ]] on alternate version of "Behind Blue Eyes"<ref name="multiple"/>
* [[Leslie West]]&nbsp;– lead guitar on Record Plant sessions on "deluxe edition" including "Baby, Don't You Do It" and "Love Ain't for Keeping" (electric version)<ref name="multiple">{{cite web |url=http://thewho.com/album/whos-next/ |title=Who's Next |publisher=Thewho.com |access-date=16 December 2012 |archive-date=1 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210401060843/https://www.thewho.com/music/whos-next/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

'''Production''' 
* [[The Who]]&nbsp;– production
* [[Glyn Johns]]&nbsp;– associate production, recording, [[audio mixing (recorded music)|mixing]]
* [[Doug Sax]]&nbsp;– [[audio mastering|mastering]]
* [[Kit Lambert]]&nbsp;– [[music executive|executive production]]
* [[Chris Stamp]]&nbsp;– executive production
* Pete Kameron&nbsp;– executive production
* [[Kosh (art director)|John Kosh]]&nbsp;– album design
* [[Ethan Russell]]&nbsp;– photography
* [[Steven Wilson]]&nbsp;– multichannel mixes for the 2023 ''Who's Next / Life House'' deluxe set

==Charts==
{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|+1971 weekly chart performance for ''Who's Next''
! Chart (1971)
! Peak<br />position
|-
! scope="row"| Australian Albums ([[Kent Music Report]])<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6}}</ref>
| align="center"| 3
|-
{{album chart|Canada|5|artist=The Who|album=Who's Next|chartid=7579|rowheader=true|access-date=6 December 2022}}
|-
! scope="row"| Danish Albums ([[Tracklisten|Hitlisten]])<ref>{{cite web |url=http://danskehitlister.dk/?song_id=6408 |title=LP Top 10, November 8, 1971 |access-date=30 March 2016 |archive-date=9 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409225551/http://danskehitlister.dk/?song_id=6408 |url-status=live }}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"| 3
|-
{{album chart|Netherlands|2|artist=The Who|album=Who's Next|rowheader=true|access-date=6 December 2022}}
|-
! scope="row" |Finnish Albums ([[The Official Finnish Charts|''Suomen virallinen lista'']])<ref>{{cite book |last=Nyman |first=Jake |title=Suomi soi 4: Suuri suomalainen listakirja |publisher=Tammi |year=2005 |isbn=951-31-2503-3 |edition=1st |location=Helsinki |page=135|language=fi}}</ref>
|style="text-align:center;"| 9
|-
{{album chart|Germany4|18|artist=The Who|album=Who's Next|id=12635|rowheader=true|access-date=6 December 2022}}
|-
{{album chart|Norway|6|artist=The Who|album=Who's Next|rowheader=true|access-date=6 December 2022}}
|-
{{album chart|UK|1|artist=The Who|album=Who's Next|rowheader=true|access-date=6 December 2022}}
|-
{{album chart|Billboard200|4|artist=The Who|access-date=6 December 2022|rowheader=true}}
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|+ 2013 weekly chart performance for ''Who's Next''
! Chart (2013)
! Peak<br />position
|-
{{album chart|Italy|100|artist=The Who|album=Who's Next|rowheader=true|access-date=6 December 2022}}
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|+ 2014 weekly chart performance for ''Who's Next''
! Chart (2014)
! Peak<br />position
|-
! scope="row"| US ''Billboard'' [[Top Pop Catalog Albums|Top Pop Catalog]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-who-mn0000577627/awards |title=The Who&nbsp;– ''Billboard'' Albums |website=Allmusic |access-date=8 April 2014 |archive-date=11 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131211061938/http://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-who-mn0000577627/awards |url-status=live }}</ref>
| style="text-align:center;"| 7
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
|+ 2020 weekly chart performance for ''Who's Next''
! Chart (2020)
! Peak<br />position
|-
{{album chart|Wallonia|156|artist=The Who|album=Who's Next|rowheader=true|access-date=6 December 2022}}
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"
|+ 2023 weekly chart performance for ''Who's Next''
! scope="col"| Chart (2023)
! scope="col"| Peak<br />position
|-
{{album chart|Austria|38|artist=The Who|album=Who's Next|rowheader=true|access-date=27 September 2023}}
|-
{{album chart|Flanders|173|artist=The Who|album=Who's Next|rowheader=true|access-date=24 September 2023}}
|-
{{album chart|Wallonia|30|artist=The Who|album=Who's Next|rowheader=true|access-date=24 September 2023|refname=wal2023}}
|-
{{album chart|Germany4|14|id=12635|artist=The Who|album=Who's Next|rowheader=true|access-date=22 September 2023|refname=ger-2023}}
|-
{{album chart|Oricon|35|date=2023<!-- needs to be kept YYYY-MM-DD -->-09-25/p/4|rowheader=true|access-date=20 September 2023}}
|-
! scope="row"| Japanese Hot Albums (''[[Billboard Japan]]'')<ref>{{cite web|url=http://billboard-japan.com/charts/detail?a=hot_albums&year=2023&month=09&day=25|title=Billboard Japan Hot Albums – Week of September 20, 2023|website=[[Billboard Japan]]|language=ja|access-date=22 September 2023}}</ref>
| 46
|-
{{album chart|Spain|77|M|url=https://www.elportaldemusica.es/lists/top-100-albums/2023/38|title=Top 100 Albums Weekly|publisher=[[Promusicae]]|work=El portal de Música|rowheader=true|access-date=29 September 2023}}
|-
! scope="row"| Swedish Physical Albums ([[Sverigetopplistan]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sverigetopplistan.se/chart/234?dspy=2023&dspp=38|title=Veckolista Album Fysiskt, vecka 38|publisher=[[Sverigetopplistan]]|access-date=22 September 2023}}</ref>
| 5
|-
{{album chart|Switzerland|39|artist=The Who|album=Who's Next|rowheader=true|access-date=24 September 2023}}
|}

==Certifications==
{{Certification Table Top|caption=Certifications for ''Who's Next''}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=Italy|title=Who's Next|artist=The Who|type=album|award=Platinum|relyear=1971|certyear=2024}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United Kingdom|title=Who's Next|artist=The Who|type=album|award=Platinum|relyear=1993|certyear=2018|id=9513-1463-2|note=release of 1993}}
{{Certification Table Entry|region=United States|title=Who's Next|artist=The Who|type=album|award=Platinum|number=3}}
{{Certification Table Bottom | streaming=true|nosales=true}}

==References==
=== Citations ===
{{Reflist}}

=== Sources ===
{{Refbegin}}
* {{cite AV media notes|first=John|last=Atkins|title=Who's Next (Deluxe Edition)|year=2003|publisher=Polydor|id=113-056-2}}
* {{cite book|first=Tony|last=Fletcher|title=Dear Boy : The Life of Keith Moon|publisher=Omnibus Press|year=1998|isbn=978-0-711-96625-3}}
* {{cite book|first=Dave|last=Marsh|author-link=Dave Marsh|title=Before I Get Old: The Story of The Who|publisher=Plexus|isbn=978-0-85965-083-0|year=1983}}
* {{cite book|first1=Andrew|last1=Neill|first2=Matthew|last2=Kent|title=Anyway Anyhow Anywhere – The Complete Chronicle of The Who|publisher=Virgin|year=2002|isbn=978-0-7535-1217-3}}
* {{cite AV media notes|first=Pete|last=Townshend|author-link=Pete Townshend|title=Who's Next (Deluxe Edition)|year=2003|publisher=Polydor|id=113-056-2}}
* {{cite book|last=Unterberger|first=Richie|author-link=Richie Unterberger|title=Won't Get Fooled Again: The Who from Lifehouse to Quadrophenia|publisher=Jawbone Press|year=2011|isbn=978-1-906002-75-6}}
{{Refend}}

==Further reading==
{{Refbegin}}
* {{cite book|last=Atkins |first=John| title=The Who on Record: A Critical History, 1963–1998| publisher=McFarland|year=2000|isbn=978-0-7864-0609-8}}
* {{cite book|title=A Brief History of Album Covers|first=Jason|last=Draper|publisher=Flame Tree Publishing|location=London|year=2008|pages=100–101|isbn=9781847862112|oclc=227198538}}
* ''[[Classic Albums: The Who - Who's Next]]'', DVD, Eagle Vision (Classic albums series).
{{Refend}}

==External links==
{{Sister project links|commons=no|b=no|v=no|voy=no|species=no|m=no|wikt=no|mw=no|n=no|s=no|d=Q729387}}
* {{Discogs master|master=68469|name=Who's Next}}
* [http://www.thewho.net/linernotes/WhosNext.htm Who's Next liner notes&nbsp;– Song-by-song liner notes for the album] ({{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929111143/http://www.thewho.net/linernotes/WhosNext.htm |date=29 September 2007 }})
* [http://www.thewho.net/whotabs/whosnext.htm Guitar tablature]

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