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Track Listing The Who's Tommy remastered for SACD £14.99
The incredible sound quality that this clasic album has is alone more than sufficient to excite Who fans but the added bonus of an extra CD makes this package extra special. 

CD two includes tracks that have never been available - before, highlights includes Dogs (part 2)the B side of the Pinball Wizard single and a Townshend sung track Trying to get Through . 

The banter between the band show how well the band got on in the studio at the time of the recording. 

In addition there are five stereo only out takes . 

Given the importance of this album to Polydor and its importance to the SACD format this album will be launched at a reception in Ronnie Scotts on Thursday January 13th. 

The historic significance of the venue is that Tommy was first performed at this venue when originally released and this is the "spin" for the event plus we sHamelessly steal the Sony line on the Dylan releases 

Disc 2 - out takes and demos 

Tracklisting 

Side : 1 
1. Overture Original Album Version
2.It's A Boy Original Album Version
3. 1921 Original Album Version
4. Amazing Journey
Original Album Version
5. Sparks
Original Album Version
6. Eyesight To The Blind (The Hawker)
Original Album Version
7. Christmas
Original Album Version
8. Cousin Kevin
Original Album Version
9. The Acid Queen
Original Album Version
10. Underture
Original Album Version
11. Do You Think It's Alright
Original Album Version
12. Fiddle About
Original Album Version
13. Pinball Wizard
Original Album Version
14. There's A Doctor
Original Album Vertsion
15. Go To The Mirror!
Original Album Version
16. Tommy Can You Hear Me?
Original Album Version
17. Smash The Mirror
Original Album Version
18. Sensation
Original Album Version
19. Miracle Cure
Original Album Version
20. Sally Simpson
Original Album Version
21. I'm Free
Original Studio Version
22. Welcome
Original Album Version
23. Tommy's Holiday Camp
Original Album Version
24. We're Not Gonna Take It
Original Album Edit
25. Listening To You / See Me, Feel Me
Original Album Edit

Side : 2 

1.I Was
2. Christmas (Out Take 3)
3. Cousin Kevin Model Child
4.Young Man Blues (Version 1)
5. Tommy Can You Hear Me? (alternate version)
6. Trying To Get Through
7. Sally Simpson (out takes)
8. Miss Simpson
9. Welcome (Take 2)
10. Tommy's Holiday Camp (band's version)
11. We're Not Gonna Take It (Alternate version)
12. Dogs
13. It's A Boy
stereo only version
14. Amazing Journey
stereo only version
15. Christmas
stereo only version
16. Do You Think It's Alright
stereo only version
17. Pinball Wizard
stereo only version
Pete Townshend has remixed The Who's Tommy album for SACD and 5.1 Surround Sound. 

"Tommy can you hear me?" will be heard like never before with the hybrid SACD (Super Audio CD) release on October 28, 2003 of the double-disc TOMMY - DELUXE EDITION (MCA/UMe). One of the pre-eminent rock albums in history, TOMMY - DELUXE EDITION marks the most significant album to be first issued on a hybrid SACD, a disc which offers three formats: SACD 5.1 Surround Sound, SACD Stereo and CD Stereo. Only a hybrid SACD can be played in CD players as well as SACD-capable players. 

Says The Who's Pete Townshend, who digitally remixed the album from the original master tapes: "To be able to listen to TOMMY in what is master quality audio, just as Roger, John, Keith and I did in the studio so many years ago, is a special experience -- and completely new for fans of The Who and the album. This is what TOMMY was meant to sound like and I couldn't be happier that the public will finally hear it the way it was intended." 

Disc 1 features the complete original album in 5.1 Surround Sound, SACD Stereo and CD Stereo (all remastered by Jon Astley, Townshend's catalog reissue collaborator). 
Disc 2 brings together 12 rare or previously unreleased outtakes (such as "I Was" and "Miss Simpson") and alternate versions (such as for "Tommy Can You Hear Me?," "We're Not Gonna Take It" and "Christmas") in SACD 5.1, SACD and CD Stereo, plus four never-before-released demos ("It's A Boy," "Amazing Journey," "Christmas" and "Do You Think It's Alright?") in SACD and CD Stereo. The package also features liner notes and copies of some of Townshend's original handwritten and typed lyrics. 

The first "rock opera," TOMMY tells of a "deaf, dumb, and blind kid" who witnessed traumatic events in his adolescence. Released in 1969, the album was hailed by both rock critics and the mainstream press. Life magazine wrote that "for sheer power, invention, and brilliance of performance, TOMMY outstrips anything that has ever come out of a recording studio." 

TOMMY includes such classics as "I'm Free," "Sensation," "We're Not Gonna Take It," "Pinball Wizard," "The Acid Queen," "Eyesight To The Blind," "See Me Feel Me/Listening To You" and the 10-minute instrumental "Underture." Its success, bolstered by tours of Europe and the U.S. and the movie WOODSTOCK, turned The Who into superstars. TOMMY also introduced a new audience to rock music as the band played some of the world's most celebrated opera houses and luminaries such as Leonard Bernstein praised the work. TOMMY has since been performed as a play, a 1975 film starring Roger Daltrey and a 1993 Broadway musical which earned five Tony Awards (the West End version was nominated for eight prestigious Olivier Awards).