THE WHO

Bible One

(MCA)

Just when you think that Pete Townshend's run out of ideas, he comes back with a new project so huge, so immense, that you automatically feel ashamed for ever doubting him in the first place. Bible (Part One) is such a project, and without a doubt it's the most ambitious thing that The Who have ever chosen to undertake.

Townshend claims that Part One alone took him over 35 minutes to write, and the high quality of work present here bears him out. Based on "the world's greatest selling book" (as the ads say),'Bib/e One is the first part of a projected series that will be released over the next eighteen months, finally consisting of fifteen parts with ten records per part. Packaged in a huge white box (each part will have a differrent color to it, so that when all fifteen parts are placed side by side they will form a color scale), Part One comes with ten records, a song sheet and limited edition 125-page color booklet. The whole thing weighs just over 8V2 pounds ""and retails at $24.59, but make no mistake—it's an investment well worth it.