Genre: Rock, Hard Rock, Art rock
Label: © Polydor | Universal Music
Quality: Blu-ray Audio
Length: 01:14:56
Video: MPEG-4 AVC 3000 kbps 1920*1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: English DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 96 kHz / 7541 kbps / (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps)
Audio#2: English LPCM 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps
Size: 8.49 GB
1. Overture 5:21
2. It’s a boy 0:37
3. 1921 2:49
4. Amazing Journey 5:05
5. Sparks 2:05
6. The hawker 2:14
7. Christmas 4:34
8. Cousin Kevin 4:07
9. The acid queen 3:34
10. Underture 10:06
11. Do you think it’s alright? 0:25
12. Fiddle about 1:31
13. Pinball wizard 3:01
14. There’s a doctor 0:24
15. Go to the mirror! 3:48
16. Tommy can you hear me? 1:35
17. Smash the mirror 1:33
18. Sensation 2:27
19. Miracle cure 0:12
20. Sally Simpson 4:11
21. I’m free 2:39
22. Welcome 4:32
23. Tommy’s holiday camp 0:57
24. We’re not gonna take it 7:06The full-blown rock opera about a deaf, dumb, and blind boy that launched the band to international superstardom, written almost entirely by Pete Townshend. Hailed as a breakthrough upon its release, its critical standing has diminished somewhat in the ensuing decades because of the occasional pretensions of the concept and because of the insubstantial nature of some of the songs that functioned as little more than devices to advance the rather sketchy plot. Nonetheless, the double album has many excellent songs, including “I’m Free,” “Pinball Wizard,” “Sensation,” “Christmas,” “We’re Not Gonna Take It,” and the dramatic ten-minute instrumental “Underture.” Though the album was slightly flawed, Townshend’s ability to construct a lengthy conceptual narrative brought new possibilities to rock music. Despite the complexity of the project, he and the Who never lost sight of solid pop melodies, harmonies, and forceful instrumentation, imbuing the material with a suitably powerful grace. –Richie Unterberger
This new Deluxe version of the album comes with a wealth of previously unheard material in the form of a live performance of Tommy from 1969, taken from tapes that infamously Townshend asked the band’s sound engineer to burn. The unmissable Super Deluxe version also includes 20 demos from Pete Townshend’s archive and the original album remixed in surround sound on new Hi Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-ray! Furthermore the Super Deluxe completes the ultimate Tommy experience with a hardback 80-page full-colour book featuring rare & unseen period photos, Pete’s hand-written lyrics & notes and fascinating memorabilia, a 22,000-word essay by legendary Who aficionado Richard Barnes and a facsimile 20” x 30” Tommy concert poster. We are also proud to make the full album available on standard CD, LP and Blu-Ray Audio formats.
