Featuring eight album covers and several live and promo pictures The Royal Mail has announced a special stamp set to celebrate the 60th anniversary of The Who – find out all the details below. READ MORE: Pete Townshend tells us about his new Quadrophenia ballet and the future of The Who Today (October 3), the Royal Mail announced that 12 special stamps are being issued in honour of The Who’s formation six decades ago. Of these 12 stamps, eight will feature some of the band’s most iconic album covers, while the remaining four stamps are of promotional photos or live performance images.
The eight albums featured on the stamps are 1965’s ‘My Generation’, 1969’s ‘Tommy’, 1971’s ‘Who’s Next’, 1973’s ‘Quadrophenia’, 1978’s ‘Who Are You’, 1981’s ‘Face Dances’, 2006’s ‘Endless Wire’ and finally, 2019’s ‘WHO’. The Who stamps. Credit: Royal Mail Of the four remaining stamps, two will be images of the band performing live, taken at the Marquee Club in London in 1967 and at the Kings Hall, Belle Vue in Manchester in 1973.
The Who stamps. Credit: Royal Mail The stamps and a range of collectible products are available to pre-order from today (October 3) at www.royalmail.
com/thewho and by telephone on 03457 641641. A special Presentation Pack including all 12 The Who stamps will be available for the price of £22.80.
The stamps go on general sale on October 17. With the stamp collection, the band have now become the seventh music act t.