Price: £21.99
Format: Vinyl
Artist: Roger Daltrey
CatNo: 7763531
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Roger Daltrey Tommy Orchestral The Who double vinyl
The Who’s Tommy Orchestral, performed by Roger Daltrey, with members of The Who live band and The Budapest Scoring Orchestra conducted by Keith Levenson.
 
A live performance of The Who's conceptual classic recorded in Budapest and Bethel in upstate New York in 2018, Tommy Orchestral features a bold new orchestration by David Campbell (who has worked with Radiohead, Bob Dylan, and his son Beck) and an impassioned performance from Daltrey.
 
180g Double vinyl in gatefold sleeve.
 
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Since it was first debuted at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club in Soho London in early May 1969, Tommy has had many different live outings; it was performed in full at the Woodstock and Isle Of Wight Festivals in 1969, it was the basis for a ballet in Canada in 1970, it was a full-blown opera in Seattle in 1971, in 1972 it was recorded as an orchestral piece by the London Symphony Orchestra featuring Stevie Winwood, Rod Stewart, Richie Havens, Pete Sellers and Ringo Starr, there was the infamous 1975 movie directed by Ken Russell starring Elton John, Eric Clapton, Tina Turner, Ann Margaret, Oliver Reed, Jack Nicholson and Roger Daltrey. After that, the band didn't perform it again until 1989 in Los Angeles when guests such as Phil Collins, Billy Idol, Elton John & Patti Labelle were part of the show. In 1993 the musical version opened on Broadway and won five Tony awards before transferring to The West End where it went on to win three Olivier awards.
 
Roger Daltrey on Tommy’s enduring appeal after 50 years and why it sounds better with an orchestra: "Pete’s music is particularly suited to being embellished by the sounds that an orchestra can add to a band. Tommy can mean whatever you want it to mean, I use the characters in it as metaphors for parts of the human condition, so it’s a kind of a story of the human spirit. Even though it is 50 years on, I approach it as though I'm singing it for the first time."
 

 

A
1. Overture
2. It's A Boy
3. 1921
4. Amazing Journey
5. Sparks
 
B
1. Eyesight To The Blind
2. Christmas
3. Cousin Kevin
4. The Acid Queen
5. Do You Think It's Alright
6. Fiddle About
 
C
1. Pinball Wizard
2. There's A Doctor
3. Go To The Mirror
4. Tommy, Can You Hear
5. Smash The Mirror
6. Refrain - It's A Boy
7. I'm Free
8. Miracle Cure
9. Sensation
 
D
1. Sally Simpson
2. Welcome
3. Tommy's Holiday Camp
4. We're Not Gonna Take It