Thursday, 29 August 2013

The Who to release Super Deluxe Boxset of “Tommy” on 11th November


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                                                   
 
8.     Christmas                                                      

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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