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The rock opera Tommy was not meant to be Pete
Townshend's magnum opus. Instead it should have been a stepping-stone to Lifehouse, a project so ambitious it eventually defeated him.
Although several key songs were salvaged in the album Who's Next, the work they were intended to be part of remains, in Townshend's words, "the one that got away".
A John Pidgeon production

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John Pidgeon

BBC Radio 1 England

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