6 CD Lifehouse on the way

[Brian Cady <cadyb@home.com>]

Or so says Music 365 today.  So you spent all your money on Who tickets, did
you?  Time to sell that car.  Why would you need a car when you have 6 CD's of
Lifehouse to listen to?  Here's the article which you can also find at:
http://www.music365.co.uk/autocontent/news_013805.htm

Twenty unreleased tracks recorded by PETE TOWNSHEND in 1971 for the aborted
follow-up to The Who's 'Tommy' will finally see the light of day as part of a
six CD box set to be released on December 6.
 
The release of the songs from the lost project The Lifehouse will coincide with
the broadcast of Townshend’s  play of the same name on BBC Radio Three in a
production featuring David Threlfall and Geraldine James.

'The Lifehouse' was conceived by The Who's leader as the follow-up to 'Tommy'
but after several experimental performances at London’s Young Vic theatre the
project was abandoned and Townshend began work on 'Quadrophenia'.

The play is set on the eve of the millennium and is built around a journey
through the industrial wasteland of Britain. It also appeared to foretell the
arrival of the Internet in Townshend’s vision of a future in which human
communication is via "a vast global network".

The six CD set will include a recording of the two hour play plus
"orchestrations", a documentary about the project and Townshend’s songs, on
which he plays all the instruments himself.

Several of the songs subsequently turned up in different form on the album
'Who’s Next'. Meanwhile Townshend is reportedly writing songs for a new Who
album, the first since 1982’s 'It's Hard' and the band play two dates at
Chicago’s House of Blues in November.
  
The full track listing is: 'Teenage Wasteland', 'Goin' Mobile', 'Baba O'Riley',
'Time Is Passing', 'Love Ain't For Keeping', 'Bargain', 'Too Much of Anything',
'Greyhound Girl', 'Mary', 'Behind Blue Eyes', 'I Don't Know Myself', 'Put The
Money Down', 'Pure and Easy', 'Getting In Tune', 'Let’s See Action', 'Relay',
'Join Together', 'Won't Get Fooled Again', 'Song Is Over'. There are also two
bonus live tracks in 'Who Are You' and 'Won’t Get Fooled Again' plus two new
versions of 'Behind Blue Eyes' and 'Song Is Over'.

There will also be a deluxe collector's art edition in a numbered limited
edition of 2001.
Thu Oct 21 1999 18:20 BST

It doesn't say so in the article, but I imagine this is what he is going to be
selling at www.petetownshend.com

		-Brian in Atlanta