Tommy [2 LP] [VINYL]

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In 1998, the album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for "historical, artistic and significant value". [48] In 2000 it was voted number 52 in Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums. [66] In 2003, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Tommy number 96 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, [67] it maintained the rating in a 2012 revised list, [68] and was re-ranked at number 190 on the 2020 list. [69] The album is one of several by the Who to appear in 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. [70] According to Acclaimed Music, it is the 132nd most ranked record on critics' all-time lists. [71] Interview with Pete Townshend at Manchester Arena, England, 12 December 1996, by Stephen Gallagher (British Youth & Popular Culture Editor, Ubu).

In 1991, Townshend broke his wrist in a cycling accident and could not play guitar. Looking for alternative work while recuperating, he responded to a request from the PACE Theatrical Group for the rights to a Broadway musical adaptation of Tommy. The group introduced him to La Jolla Playhouse director Des McAnuff, and the pair began to develop the musical together. It opened at La Jolla in summer 1992 and was an immediate commercial success. [124] Townshend wrote a new song, "I Believe My Own Eyes", to explain the relationship between Tommy's parents, but otherwise tried to be faithful to the music on the original album. [125] By 1968, Townshend was unsure about how the Who should progress musically. The group were no longer teenagers, but he wanted their music to remain relevant. [12] His friend, International Times art director Mike McInnerney, told him about the Indian spiritual mentor Meher Baba, [13] and Townshend became fascinated with Baba's values of compassion, love and introspection. [14] The Who's commercial success was on the wane after the single " Dogs" failed to make the top 20, and there was a genuine risk of the band breaking up. [15] The group still performed well live and spent most of the spring and summer touring the US and Canada, [16] but their stage act relied on Townshend smashing his guitar or Keith Moon demolishing his drums, which kept the group in debt. Townshend and Kit Lambert realised they needed a larger vehicle for their music than hit singles and a new stage show, and Townshend hoped to incorporate his love of Meher Baba into this concept. [17] He decided that the Who should record a series of songs that stood well in isolation but formed a cohesive whole on the album. He also wanted the material performed in concert, to counter the trend of bands like the Beatles and the Beach Boys producing studio output that was not designed for live performance. [18]Cawthorne, Nigel (2005). The Who and the making of Tommy. Unanimous Ltd (Vinyl Frontier 5). pp.224. ISBN 1-903318-76-9 a b Segretto, Mike (2014). The Who FAQ: All That's Left to Know About Fifty Years of Maximum R&B. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-480-39253-3 . Retrieved 6 October 2019. Macek III, J.C. (24 April 2014). " 'Sensation: The Story of the Who's Tommy' Lives Up to Its Name". Pop Matters . Retrieved 12 January 2023. All of these remarkable observations are made through brand new interviews with lead guitarist, singer, lead songwriter and Tommy creator Pete Townshend, as well as the dynamic lead singer (who portrayed Tommy Walker himself in the original opera and the 1975 motion picture) Roger Daltrey (who still looks about 20 years younger than he is). In that these are some of the first interviews that truly delve into the somewhat recently unearthed facts about Townshend's childhood sexual abuse, this is an exceptionally noteworthy documentary. Release 4638030 (Circled/Rim text on label facing outwards to runout, also "Deutsche Grammophon" mentioned) Christgau, Robert (25 January 1983). "Consumer Guide". The Village Voice. New York . Retrieved 3 July 2013.

If you are still hoping to get an original UK edition of Tommy, here is my advice. Get this half-speed master edition now while you still can, then keep an eye out for any used “OG” copies that may well start showing up in the stores in the months ahead as older collectors and audiophiles purge their copies for a clean new edition. Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge.Bargreen, Melinda (22 July 2005). "Glynn Ross, 90, turned Seattle into opera destination". The Seattle Times. Archived from the original on 24 May 2011. Perhaps the most startling revelation in the recent reissues isn't on tape, but in the Quadrophenia super deluxe edition's booklet. Published for the first time is a letter from Townshend to his lawyer detailing his instructions for his exit from the band, after internal problems left him "losing any impetus either to write for the Who as a vehicle, or play with its members as a musician. I will not be dissuaded from my present feeling."

Greatest Albums of All Time Rolling Stone's definitive list of the 500 greatest albums of all time". Rolling Stone. 2012 . Retrieved 19 September 2019. It would be remiss of me not to say that looking at such issues found on Tommy does not have merit, as certainly anyone who enjoys this release should not be considered to support the notion of child abuse, very much like the book “The Basketball Diaries” by Jim Carroll, who kept detailed notes, poems and thoughts during his downward spiral into drug addiction, where simply watching or reading his story is not tantamount to supporting or glorifying drug addiction ... it is all a visual and musical journey, dark as it may be, in the life of one of the greatest musicians of our time.

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Tommy (Media notes). The Who. MCA. MCAD-10801. {{ cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link)

Townshend, Pete (1993). Tommy: The Musical. Pantheon. 173 pp. + a CD w/ the song I Can't Believe My Own Eyes. ISBN 0-679-43066-0. Also titled The Who's Tommy: The Musical.

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The story follows Tommy who is a blind, deaf, and mute boy who lost his senses after traumatically seeing his father murdered by his wife’s lover. Throughout his story, we see the struggles of being a disabled youth, which includes bullying, rape, and an early introduction to sex and drugs, and how one’s story can be exploited into a national, beloved freak show. As with most demagogues, there tends to be a falling off point where they reach a level of fame and recognition but some thing, whether financial or political, ruins their character and many people lose their following. First released in 1965, My Generation was The Who’s debut album. It peaked at #5 and unleashed The Who on to the world. It has been described as one of the greatest albums of all time by Rolling Stone, MOJO, and the NME and was included in the US Library of Congress’s National Recording Registry as ‘culturally significant’ to be preserved and archived for all time. It’s a Boy”, “‘21”, “Amazing Journey”, “Eyesight to the Blind (The Hawker)”, “Christmas”, “Cousin Kevin”, “The Acid Queen”, “Do You Think It’s Alright?”, “Fiddle About”, “Pinball Wizard”, Go to the Mirror!”, “Tommy Can You Hear Me?”, “Smash the Mirror”, “Sensation”, “Sally Simpson”, “I’m Free”, “Welcome”, Tommy’s Holiday Camp”, and “We’re Not Gonna Take It” Also, something I didn’t see until now is a serial number printed on the booklet — 3345. Curiously, I never noticed if the U.S. edition indeed includes the wording “limited edition number” in the same spot, but there is no number printed there — at least not in mine, nor every copy I’ve ever seen and/or owned. I’ll be looking into the reasoning behind the serial-replication of the number 3345 in this new edition when I get a chance, of course — but please feel free to respond in the Comments section below if you know of the reasoning why it was used.