Artist: THE WHO
Album: TOMMY REMASTERED (CD)

Release date: 1969/ 1996
EAN/UPS: 0602537474035
Media type: CD

Tommy is the fourth album by the English rock band The Who, released by Track and Polydor in the United Kingdom and Decca and MCA in the United States. A double album telling a loose story about a "deaf, dumb, and blind boy" who becomes the leader of a messianic movement, Tommy was the first musical work to be billed overtly as a rock opera. Released in 1969, the album was mostly composed by guitarist Pete Townshend. In 1998 it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for "historical, artistic and significant" value.

The definitive rock opera, TOMMY liberated the Who from a "singles band" stigma, marking them as a substantial artistic force. Composer Pete Townshend had flirted with the conceptual format on two previous releases, but here his vision is spread over two ambitious records that play to the Who's main strengths. Anthems such as the raucous "Pinball Wizard" and the surprisingly serene "I'm Free" emphasize the kinetic power of the band, while Townshend's cast of characters (the perverted Uncle Ernie, the inscrutable Tommy) reveals a wild and unconventional imagination. Townshend even incorporates Sonny Boy Williamson's "Eyesight to the Blind" as part of his fable about the "deaf, dumb, and blind kid," making a successful reference to the past in what is an undeniably groundbreaking and forward-looking achievement.

TRACKLIST:

1. Overture 5:21
2. It's A Boy 0:38
3. 1921 2:50
4. Amazing Journey 3:25
5. Sparks 3:46
6. Eyesight To The Blind (The Hawker) 2:13
7. Christmas 4:34
8. Cousin Kevin 4:07
9. The Acid Queen 3:35
10. Underture 10:09 Album Only
11. Do You Think It's Alright? 0:24
12. Fiddle About 1:29
13. Pinball Wizard 3:01
14. There's A Doctor 0:23
15. Go To The Mirror! 3:49
16. Tommy Can You Hear Me? 1:36
17. Smash The Mirror 1:35
18. Sensation 2:27
19. Miracle Cure 0:12
20. Sally Simpson 4:12
21. I'm Free 2:40
22. Welcome 4:34
23. Tommy's Holiday Camp 0:57
24. We're Not Gonna Take It 7:08

LINE-UP:

Pete Townshend (vocals, guitar, keyboards)
John Entwistle (vocals, French horn, bass)
Keith Moon (vocals, drums)
Roger Daltrey (vocals)