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The Who: Meaty Beaty Big & Bouncy (Track 2406 006; £2.15); Humble Pie: Performance Rockin' At The Fillmore (A&M AMLH 63506; £2.29).

Richard Green, New Musical Express, 27 November 1971

THE REASON I have for linking these two albums together is to try to demonstrate the right way and the wrong way to do it. The Who's album is a collection of old tracks and Pie's is a double album of a live performance, but without doubt the former shines like a star in the night as compared to the latter

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