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  • Live at Leeds: The Who's legendary gig remembered 50 years on

    02/14/2020 8:16:13 AM PST · by DoodleBob · 53 replies
    BBC ^ | February 14, 2020 | N/A
    On the 50th anniversary of a legendary gig by The Who, people who were there have been recalling how the band "threw everything into it." The rock group played at the packed University of Leeds refectory on 14 February 1970 and recorded the gig. The record it spawned, Live at Leeds, is often cited as one of the best live rock albums of all time. Ed Ferguson, a Who fan who was at the Valentine's Day concert, said: "I remember it vividly. The band threw everything into it." Mr Ferguson, then an economics student at Leeds Polytechnic, was a big...