Sunday, July 4th, 1971

The Who are discussing Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey when they spy concrete "monoliths" in a slag heap. These monoliths had been placed there to keep the slagheap from shifting. The Who run out to a monolith and pretend to be apes "discovering" it while photographer Ethan Russell, who had accompanied them to the show, shoots pictures. One of the pictures shows The Who walking away from the monolith after apparently urinating on it (with the exception of Pete, the urine is actually water poured down the monolith from film cans). It later becomes the cover of the Who's Next album. The back cover photo is taken backstage just before the Leicester gig.