Remastered
with 20 UNRELEASED DEMOS, A FULL UNRELEASED LIVE VERSION OF TOMMY and HI
FIDELITY 5.1 MIX
Released
November 11th 2013
‘Tommy’, The Who’s defining, breakthrough concept album – a
full-blown rock opera about a deaf, dumb and blind boy that launched the band
to international superstardom is to be released in Deluxe and Super Deluxe
editions this Autumn.
Originally released in May 1969, The Who were at a career crossroads, known mainly as a singles band, but this project launched them as a serious ‘albums band’ and it has now sold over 20 million copies as well as regularly turning up in lists of the most influential albums of all time.
Coming
after The Who Sell Out in 1967, it marked a complete change in style with Pete
Townshend’s lengthy conceptual narrative bringing exciting new opportunities to
rock music. Tommy was and remains to be an ambitious, complex and controversial
work, which was initially banned by the BBC.
This new Deluxe and Super Deluxe version of the album comes with a wealth of previously unheard material in the form of 20 demos from Pete Townshend’s archive and also a full live performance of Tommy from 1969 taken from tapes that infamously Townshend asked the band’s sound engineer to burn!
18 of
the previously unheard and thought to be long lost live tracks are taken from a
live show at the Capital Theatre, Ottawa, Canada on October the 15th 1969.
Three others, I’m Free, Tommy’s Holiday Camp and We’re Not Gonna Take It were
lost due to tape reels being changed during the show so are taken from later
shows of the same era.
As
discussed at length in Pete Townshend’s autobiography the tapes were all
supposed to be destroyed but were kept by long time Who sound man Bob Pridden
despite Pete’s instructions.
The
Super Deluxe box also features a 5.1 mix featuring the complete album remixed
in surround sound on new Hi Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-ray format
As well
as the music the limited edition Super Deluxe box-set comes with a hardback
80-page full-colour book featuring rare period photos, memorabilia, a
20,000-word essay by legendary Who aficionado Richard Barnes and a rare
facsimile Tommy poster housed in a hard-back deluxe slip-case.
TRACKLISTING
AND FURTHER INFORMATION
Super-Deluxe
Edition (UPC 006025 37473960)
Disc 1 –
The original album (2013 re-master)
Digitally
re-mastered in HD
Disc 2 –
The demos and out-takes
Features
20 previously unreleased tracks from Pete Townshend’s demo archive.
Disc 3 –
The 5.1 album mix – Hi Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-ray
The
complete album remixed in surround sound on new Hi Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-ray
format
Disc 4 –
The live ‘bootleg’ album
Features
21 previously-unreleased tracks from various live shows from 1969
Hardback
80-page full-colour book featuring rare period photos and memorabilia
20,000-word
essay by legendary Who aficionado Richard Barnes
Rare
facsimile Tommy poster
Limited
edition, housed in a hard-back deluxe slip-case
Track listing:
Disc 1
The original album (2013 re-master)
1. Overture
2. It’s A Boy
3. 1921
4. Amazing Journey
5. Sparks
6. The Hawker (Eyesight To The Blind)
7. Christmas
8. Cousin Kevin
9. The Acid Queen
10. Underture
11. Do You Think It’s Alright?
12. Fiddle About
13. Pinball Wizard
14. There’s A Doctor
15. Go To The Mirror!
16. Tommy Can You Hear Me?
17. Smash The Mirror
18. Sensation
19. Miracle Cure
20. Sally Simpson
21. I’m Free
22. Welcome
23. Tommy’s Holiday Camp
24. We’re Not Gonna Take It
Disc 2
Demos & extras
1. Overture
2. It’s A Boy
3. 1921
4. Amazing Journey
5. Dream One
6. Sparks
7. The Hawker
9. Acid Queen
10. Underture
(Dream Two)
11. Do You Think It’s Alright
12. Pinball Wizard
13. There’s A Doctor
14. Go To The Mirror!
15. Success
16. Tommy Can You Hear Me
17. Smash The Mirror
18. Sensation
19. Miracle Cure
20. Sally Simpson
21. I’m Free
22. Welcome
23. We’re Not Gonna Take It
24. Trying To Get Through
25. Young Man Blues
Tracks 1
– 23 - Pete Townshend – original demos.
All
previously unreleased except 2, 11 and 12 – released in 2003
Track 24
– The Who – studio demo/out-take.
Track 25
– The Who – studio recording (NOTE: This version was previously only available
on ‘The House That Track Built’ vinyl sampler).
Disc 3
Hi Fidelity Pure Audio -Blu-ray disc (5.1 mixes)
1.Overture
2.It’s a
boy
3.1921
4.Amazing
journey
5.Sparks
6.The
Hawker
7.Christmas
8.Cousin
Kevin
9.The
acid queen
10.Underture
11.Do
you think it’s alright?
12.Fiddle
about
13.Pinball
wizard
14.There’s
a doctor
15.Go to
the mirror!
16.Tommy
can you hear me?
17.Smash
the mirror
18.Sensation
19.Miracle
cure
20.Sally
Simpson
21.I’m
Free
22.Welcome
23.Tommy’s
holiday camp
24.We’re
not gonna take it
Disc 4
Live Bootleg
1. Overture (including Introduction)
2. It’s A Boy
3. 1921
4. Amazing Journey
5. Sparks
6. The Hawker (Eyesight To The Blind)1.54
7. Christmas
8. The Acid Queen
9. Pinball Wizard
10. Do You Think It’s Alright?
11. Fiddle About
12. Tommy Can You Hear Me?
13. There’s A Doctor
14. Go To The Mirror!
15. Smash The Mirror
16. Miracle Cure
17. Sally Simpson
18. I’m Free
19. Tommy’s Holiday Camp
20. We’re Not Gonna Take It
21. See Me, Feel Me / Listening To You
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