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With Love is a 1976 album featuring The Who's Pete Townshend and others that is dedicated to their spiritual mentor Meher Baba.. Other appearances and backup artists include Billy Nicholls, Steve Humphries, Ronnie Lane, Ron Wood, Ron Geesin, Bruce Rowland, Lol Benbow, Paul Wyld, Peter Hope-Evans (of Medicine Head), Peter Banks (ex-Yes), Sydney Foxx, among others.
The album was originally released in February 1970 (in commemoration of Meher Baba's birthday on 25 February) as the first in a series of tribute albums dedicated to Pete Townshend's spiritual mentor Meher Baba. Only about 2,500 copies were pressed in the original 1970 issue. The album was reissued in similar numbers in 1977.
I Am is a collaborative tribute concept album to Meher Baba featuring Pete Townshend, Michael Da Costa and others, first released in 1972.The album includes the original version of "Baba O'Riley" played by Townshend alone without lyrics, which, at 9:48, is almost twice as long as the augmented version which opens Who's Next.
Meher Baba (born Merwan Sheriar Irani; 25 February [O.S. 17 February] 1894 – 31 January 1969) was an Indian spiritual master who said he was the Avatar, or God in human form, of the age.
Meher Baba - "I am the Avatar of this Age!" [2] "You know that you are a human being, and I know that I am the Avatar.It is my whole life!" [3] "Irrespective of doubts and convictions, and for the Infinite Love I bear for one and all, I continue to come as the Avatar, to be judged time and again by humanity in its ignorance, in order to help man distinguish the Real from the false."
Jai Baba is a 2001 compilation album by Pete Townshend dedicated to Meher Baba. The album features music from three Meher Baba tribute albums featuring Townshend in the 1970s, Happy Birthday , I Am , and With Love .
O' Parvardigar is a 2001 EP by Pete Townshend devoted to his song O' Parvardigar which in turn is based on Meher Baba's Parvardigar Prayer. The EP, which was released on Townshend's own label Eel Pie, contains three versions of the song—a 1972 studio version, a live version recorded in India, and a German-language version recorded for the opening of a European Baba Centre.
[6] [7] [8] The stock footage is compiled and edited together from Meher Baba Newsreel Footage (1932), Three Incredible Weeks (1954), Meherabad (1955), Meher Baba's USA Tour (1956/1958), Pune-Meherabad (1960), East-West Gathering (1962) by Robert Fredericks in tandem to the rhythm of the musical prayer. [9]