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Newsflash!



 (Useless trivia question:  Does anybody know what
>record labels release PC's stuff?)

Bernd:

I'm not Peter Gabriel...but I do own a used CD store which has Phil Collins
CDs in it. He's on Atlantic Records.

>Furthermore, just for one second, let's suppose that MCA will change
>their mind and do a perfect job in the future, re-releasing everything in a way
>we can appreciate and starting a successful marketing strategy:

::::::::::::::::::Newsflash!!!!::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

MCA finally decides to do justice to the Who catalog, ensuring at last the
greatest Rock band that ever walked the face of the Earth its just place in
history. Their first move will be to recall all versions of  MAGIC BUS - THE
WHO ON TOUR and replace them with a remixed version of LIVE AT THE FILLMORE
EAST 1968. Then, in a frighteningly accurate market read, they will release
a five CD live boxed set which will cover the entire career of the British
band. The title is merely THE WHO LIVE, VOLUME ONE. And it appears that a
second volume is on the slate for early 1997. Sources inside MCA have
revealed that the second volume will consist of entire concerts from some of
the more famous venues The Who have played over the years.
In the meantime, Who fans can look for a newly remixed and lengthened
version of QUADROPHENIA, with 15 new songs and a commentary by several
distinguished musicologists, who prove beyond any doubt that QUAD is the
greatest work of art the 20th Century has ever seen. There is also a remixed
version of MY GENERATION coming with an unbeleivable 23 extra cuts included
and a personal apology from Jimmy Page for his claim that he ever played
lead for The Who.
Also on the agenda for early `97: the complete Townshend demos, another
multi-disc set. A seven disc set called ODDS AND SODS AND BITS AND SHITS,
which will include every single song yet unreleased by the band, as well as
early `60s versions by other bands. 
Fans worldwide are celebrating this new lease on life their band has
achieved. Band leader Peter Townshend has announced that he's so impressed
that he has decided to get the band back together to record the aborted
SIEGE album, written on the road during the 1982 Farewell tour. Do I sense a
new tour in the works? Townshend won't say, but sources close to the
guitarist say he's been practicing his leaps.
Former label chairman, Cheeta, had this to say about the new MCA policy:
"Oooh oooh aaah oooh eee eee!" He was last seen in a tree near Brixton,
trying to figure out how to remove the cap from his pen.
In a related story, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant have also announced a
"tribute to The Who" tour (which they call their Setting Things Right tour).
It seems that 1997 will be remembered as the year of The Who...and MCA
claims that `98 will be even better...as a newly opened vault with several
hundred albums worth of Who music has been discovered hidden away behind
several crates of rotten bananas...



                   Cheers                   ML

"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity."  L. Long