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Great post, thanks!!Does anyone have the Lifehouse Elements single-disc comp? It has one new track, a demo for New Song, which isn't on the Chronicles boxset. I don't want to shell out my hard-earned cash for ONE TRACK. If someone here would be able to send me an MP3 of New Song, why, I'd be super-grateful. Or maybe even upload it to this blog. Anyone?

Lifehouse Chronicles is a box set released in 2000 by Pete Townshend with the focus on the box being the formerly abandoned Lifehouse rock opera. The set contains song demos by Pete Townshend; including solo versions of Baba O'Riley , Won't Get Fooled Again , and Who Are You , and the Lifehouse Radio Program. The box set release was followed by two Sadler's Wells Lifehouse concerts and the release of a live CD and video/DVD called respectively Pete Townshend Live: Sadler's Wells 2000 and Pete Townshend - Music from Lifehouse.

Everybody who hasn't been sleeping under an umbrella on some beach in the Greek Islands or on some rock off the coast of New Zealand has heard by now of the Lifehouse Chronicles. Lifehouse was a rock opera Pete Townshend worked on feverishly and then abandoned -- due to outside tinkering and betrayal -- between the issues of Tommy and Quadrophenia. According to legend, Townshend couldn't get anybody interested in his allegedly disjointed ideas. The truth was all wrapped up in music and film-biz politics. Townshend's Lifehouse was to be a rock opera all right, but it was to be a musical for screen with footage of the Who performing the story's soundtrack. This desire of Townshend's to move into film had a practical purpose: in part, it was to shellip; rra" Read more

In 1970 The Who released Tommy and were set to carry it around the world. ‘Pete has recalled that on May 29, 1969 at the Grande Ballroom in Dearborn, Michigan, during the tour in which Tommy was first performed in the US, the audience – who’d had little opportunity to hear the album and therefore familiarize themselves with the music – rose at one point and remained standing, simply grooving to the music.’ Chris ... See also:Lifehouse album, Lifehouse album - Original Concept, Lifehouse album - The Lifehouse Concept, Lifehouse album - Plot Summary, Lifehouse album - Who's Next version, Lifehouse album - Who Are You version, Lifehouse album - Lifehouse Chronicles version, Lifehouse album - Other Related Albums