Who's Missing?

Image size 19” x 19” (print size 28" x 27")

Signed limited edition silkscreen of 250 in 28 colours 

Countersigned in pencil by Pete Townshend

In 1985, with The Who virtually retired (for the next four years at least), MCA Records brought out an album in the US of unreleased and rare Who recordings under the title 'Who's Missing'. Richard Evans decided he would like to design a sleeve that had the look and feel of a record cover from the first days of The Who - a cover with a late 50s/early 60s feel. The front would be full colour image, gloss laminated and the back, matte white with black type and clean graphics plus real old-fashioned style sleeve notes by Pete Townshend. The chevron for 'Who's Missing' was painted on wood from a packing case that Richard found outside the old Marquee Club in Wardour Street, Soho. The four faces of the band members are a montage of postcards, sepia photos and pages torn from magazines, retouched and repainted. The military ribbons were part of a collection that Richard was using at the time for his cover for Pete Townshend's solo album White City. Who's missing? Two's missing, John and Keith.