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In the News (Tue 29 Dec 09)

  
  eelpie.com - products - boxsets
This 6 CD set brings together, at long last, the realisation of Pete Townshend's 'Lifehouse' project.
The reason for this is the broadcast, by the BBC, in December 1999 of the Lifehouse radio play adaptation.
The play realised the first wholly complete narrative of the story in almost 30 years and has prompted Townshend to creatively revisit the project and put together his complete record of Lifehouse.
www.eelpie.com /shop/index.cfm?p=boxsets   (101 words)

  
  lifehouse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Lifehouse is a Sci-Fi Rock opera Double album by the Who intended as a follow-up to Tommy.
The story begins when a farming family in Scotland hear of a huge rock concert called Lifehouse that is occuring in London, a sort of post-apocalyptic Woodstock, if you will, their daughter, Sally, runs away to join the concert.
At the climax of the album, the authorities have surrounded the Lifehouse, then the perfect note rings forth through the combonation of everybody's songs, they storm the place to find everybody has dissapeared, a sort of Nirvana through music, and what's more, the people ovserving the concert through their lifesuits have completely dissapeared, too.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /lifehouse.html   (433 words)

  
 Lifehouse (album) - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In 1978, the Lifehouse project was revived by John Entwistle with a slightly changed plot; it was scrapped and its remains are included on Who Are You.
The Lifehouse Chronicles boxed set has six disks: two disks of music from the Lifehouse project, one disk of experiments and remixes of the Lifehouse songs, a disk of classical works by Pete Townshend, Scarlatti, Purcell, and Corette that were used in the Lifehouse radio play, and two disks containing the radio play itself.
At the climax of the album, the authorities have surrounded the Lifehouse, then the perfect note rings forth through the combination of everybody's songs, they storm the place to find everybody has disappeared, a sort of Nirvana through music, and what's more, the people observing the concert through their lifesuits have completely disappeared, too.
www.open-encyclopedia.com /Lifehouse_%28album%29   (511 words)

  
 Lifehouse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The story begins when a farming family Scotland hear of a huge rock concert Lifehouse that is occuring in London a of post-apocalyptic Woodstock if you will their daughter Sally away to join the concert.
At the climax of album the authorities have surrounded the Lifehouse the perfect note rings forth through the of everybody's songs they storm the place find everybody has dissapeared a sort of Nirvana through music and what's more the ovserving the concert through their lifesuits have dissapeared too.
Lifehouse were pretty quiet for awhile over here, only releasing the one chart topping single (Hanging by a Moment) from their first album.
www.freeglossary.com /Lifehouse   (750 words)

  
 lifehouse Mp3 Albums Review
Lifehouse, who earned such a distinction with 2001's highly addictive "Hanging by a Moment," shrewdly stick to the emotional guitar-rock palette of that breakthrough single for most of their second album.
Lifehouse jumped to fame with 'Hanging by a moment' which was the biggest hit of 2001.
For any Lifehouse fan this CD should not be missed for any reason, whilst the songs from 1 to 12 are the same as the US release album this album comes with added extras.
www.full-albums.net /albums_review-lifehouse.asp   (3904 words)

  
 MTVAsia.com - Pete Townshend - Lifehouse Elements
That the demise of "Lifehouse" led to the sublime album that was "Who's Next" is now the stuff of legend.
However, Townshend never gave up on "Lifehouse," though he knew in his heart that it was dead to The Who.
With the advent of the Internet, Townshend has deemed it timely to compile a mammoth six-CD set ("Lifehouse Chronicles") that aims to collect in one place all the material that has been dedicated to "Lifehouse" in the last 30 years, and make it available to his fans over the Internet.
v4.mtvasia.com /reviews/cds/Items/2000072501.html   (311 words)

  
 allmusic ((( The Lifehouse Chronicles > Overview )))
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.
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.
In short, according to Townshend, who had made contact with Universal about Lifehouse, Lambert made his own film, the disastrous Tommy by derailing the Lifehouse project using his influence with people at the band's label and elsewhere by telling them the entire thing was too big and unruly for pop music, that Lifehouse was unworkable.
www.allmusic.com /cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=A7b9yxd0b2olj   (314 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Pete Townshend   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Baba's teachings were a major source of inspiration for many of his works, including Tommy, and the unfinished Who project Lifehouse.
The Who song "Baba O'Riley," written for Lifehouse and eventually appearing on the album Who's Next, was named for Meher Baba and minimalist composer Terry Riley.
Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as presented in the New Testament writings of his early followers.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Pete-Townshend   (4446 words)

  
 JS Online: 30 years later, Townshend rebuilds 'Lifehouse'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Annoyed by the title of a 1996 BBC radio documentary, "Lifehouse: The One That Got Away," he vowed to bring the project to some sort of resolution.
He hired a script writer to produce a "Lifehouse" radio play that was broadcast on the BBC in December.
This "definitive version" is part of the six-disc "Lifehouse Chronicles" box set, as are remastered versions of the original demos for the songs and various experiments and orchestrations of the music.
www.jsonline.com /enter/music/mar00/towns09030800.asp?format=print   (864 words)

  
 Mojo, December 1999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
As the human race is atomised and alienated, The Lifehouse - then a band, played by The Who, now a mysterious hacker DJ - summons people to get together physically in one place, to congregate, in order to reassert their collective humanity once more by participating in the creation of a piece of art.
Lifehouse now exists as a radio play, adapted by Jeff Young from Townshend's script, which will be broadcast by Radio 3 on December 5.
Lifehouse, ultimately, is an examination and exploration of the eternal dialectic between inner and outer worlds, and what each has to contribute to the other.
kathy.hispeed.com /99mojo.html   (2194 words)

  
 Lifehouse - TheBestLinks.com - TheBestLinks.com:How to edit a page, Henry Purcell, Internet, London, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Please improve it in any way that you see fit, and remove this notice and the listing on the cleanup page after the article has been cleaned up.
In April 2004, it was confirmed that Sergio Andrade (one of the original members of the band) and Sean Woolstenhulme (who used to play guitar for US rock band The Calling) had decided to leave the band in order to follow individual projects more closely.
However, Jason Wade and Rick Woolstenhulme are still active members of Lifehouse, and, on July 6th 2004, they arived in Maryland, USA, in order to begin work on the 3rd album, expected to be released in 2005.
www.thebestlinks.com /Lifehouse.html   (754 words)

  
 Townshend's `Lifehouse' Comes Together Beautifully
``Lifehouse'' is one of the most famous unfinished pieces in rock history.
Over the years, Townshend tried several times to reignite ``Lifehouse,'' but it wasn't until last year that he finally was able to mount a production of the project as a two- hour radio play for the BBC.
While the work defies the limits of the recorded medium, Townshend has produced a six-CD box set of his ``Lifehouse'' recordings available in a limited edition only through his Internet site (www.eelpie.com) for about $60.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/05/28/PK77533.DTL&type=music   (820 words)

  
 Pete Townshend Guitars
Lifehouse, however, was still seen by Pete as a critical project for himself and the band and one he was to return to a number of times over the subsequent years.
In February 2000 he released the 6 CD box set, The Lifehouse Chronicles, which contained all the music associated with the project as well as the radio play.
The box set release was followed in the States by the Lifehouse elements, a single CD which pulled together tracks from the main box set.
www.celebrityrockstarguitars.com /rock/townshend.htm   (3510 words)

  
 RollingStone.com: Pete Townshend : Pete Townshend's "Lifehouse" Comes to Life : News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The rock opera has been in the works for nearly thirty years, and Townshend has made numerous aborted attempts at turning the story -- a tale of a society in which music is the only force that can free citizens from totalitarian mind-control -- into a film.
Lifehouse will finally air as a radio play on the BBC's Radio 3 on Dec. 5 and, on the same day, Townshend is releasing a six-CD set called The Lifehouse Chronicles, available only through his not-yet-launched commercial Web site, www.eelpie.com.
Following the Chronicles release, Townshend will release another CD set called The Lifehouse Method, a "limited edition art package" featuring work by artist Alex Templeton and essays on the philosophy behind the Lifehouse project.
www.rollingstone.com /news/story/_/id/5922055   (300 words)

  
 Junk for Code: Lifehouse: redemption+rock
I watched a DVD of Pete Townsend's Lifehouse music performed at the Sadler's Wells Theatre, London on February 25th & 26th 2000.
Lifehouse was to be a journey through the scarred wasteland of a futuristic, polluted middle England, where a computerised 'Big Brother' grid imposes virtual reality on the populace and the subversions of rock music offer the only salvation from suffering from a damaged life.
Townsend made brief reference to a BBC play in 1999 of 'Lifehouse' Radio 3 and a 6 CD box set, 'The Lifehouse Chronicles'.
www.sauer-thompson.com /junkforcode/archives/003446.html   (450 words)

  
 RollingStone.com: Pete Townshend : Pete Townshend Opens the Lifehouse Door : News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Townshend has always sworn that the idea behind "Lifehouse" was relatively simple, even as his articulations of it over the years have been somewhat confusing.
The nuts and bolts of it is a story about a futuristic society where everyone lives indoors and experiences a "virtual reality" (a truly visionary idea thirty years ago!) via their attachment to a system known as "The Grid," a concept which many think was predictive of the Internet.
It was Townshend's hope that the Lifehouse story would be made into a film, and after Universal Pictures dropped their funding of the project, Townshend lapsed into a serious depression.
www.rollingstone.com /news/story/_/id/5922715   (983 words)

  
 LIFEHOUSE: The "lost" Who album - Rock 'N Roll Case Study
Originally titled "Bobby", "Lifehouse" was a futuristic opera set in a polluted world with a totalitarian government that was redeemed by the music of The Who.
The story of Lifehouse wasn’t even mentioned on the sleeve of "Who's Next" and several songs vital to the plot of Lifehouse were left off the album.
On the Lifehouse stage there is a rock group, which will be The Who, to comment on the sounds and celebrate them.
www.earcandymag.com /rrcase-lifehouse.htm   (1737 words)

  
 Lifehouse   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Lifehouse is certainly not one of those bands...
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The pop/rock quartet Lifehouse featured singer/songwriter Jason Wade, who originally tagged the band Blyss during the...
www.okdirt.com /Bands_and_Artists/L/Lifehouse   (579 words)

  
 Record Collector, January 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In the original version of "Lifehouse", the idea was that the people would send out their personalities through music, to be interpreted by the omnipotent "Lifehouse" -- the Who -- so as to achieve a spiritual communion between the people, via the Lifehouse's musical interpretation of their personalities.
Townshend's original, ill-fated premise was to use the Young Vic theatre as a communal space where the audience would virtually live with the Who and, eventually, the band would be able to begin interpreting the crowd through music, to a point where the lines between performer and audience would no longer be definable.
The fact that "Lifehouse" has finally emerged in the hi-tech age means that Pete's original desire to create an interactive work can now be realized.
kathy.hispeed.com /recordcollector01-00.html   (2557 words)

  
 Lifehouse Elements : Popular Music Sun Sep 18 16:59:23 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Pete's voice may not be as raw and rocking as Roger's, but with the demos you hear the words straight from the songwriter's mouth, and you can tell he means them.
Lifehouse Elements disc is a sampler of the huge five disc set of music that you can get from the man himself.
These demos and alternate versions were supposed to be on the Life House album.
www.weihnachtslektuere.de /showroom_itemid_B00004TCGE_searchtype_AsinSearch_name_Lifehouse.Elements_locale_us   (259 words)

  
 Pete Townshend - Psychoderelict @ Soundbug   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
And, truth be told, it's one of those albums that isn't exactly ideal for a new fan because of its complexity.
This story, which is yet another revisiting of 'Lifehouse,' is about a scandal orchestrated by the cynical music critic Ruth Streeting to boost the dying career of former wasted rock legend Ray High, something she did partly with the knowledge of Ray's sleazy manager Rastus Knight.
Despite the scandal, everything turns out very happily in the end, with Ray's rereleased albums selling better than ever and Ray getting back into the studio, proving that just because he's over the hill doesn't mean he still can't produce meaningful and popular music.
www.soundbug.com /asin/B000002IVO   (897 words)

  
 eelpie.com - products - books
The book contains the unedited radio play script of Lifehouse as well as an introduction by Pete Townshend.
The Lifehouse play was developed for radio by BBC Radio Drama in collaboration with Eel Pie.
The recorded version of the play is included in the 'Lifehouse Chronicles'.
www.eelpie.com /shop/index.cfm?p=books   (123 words)

  
 Pete Townshend News: Pete Townshend Releases "The Lifehouse" >> liveDaily
A radio adaptation of "Lifehouse" featuring David Threlfall and Geraldine James will be broadcast on the BBC3 Radio Network on Dec. 5, and a web simulcast is being planned as well, according to Townshend's newly-launched official website.
The six-CD set, titled "The Lifehouse Chronicles," will feature the two-hour radio broadcast, an audio documentary covering the project, the original demos of songs from the play (on which Townshend plays all of the instruments), recordings from live performances, new mixes, new versions of some songs, and orchestral pieces.
"Lifehouse" was Townshend's attempt to mix songs and visual presentations in a futuristic story of a global community, based in part on the teachings of Townshend's spiritual mentor at the time, Meher Baba.
www.livedaily.com /news/890.html   (659 words)

  
 dallasobserver.com | | Out There | Out There | 2000-03-23   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Yes, we diehard acolytes had heard of Lifehouse, though we had no idea what it was -- a record, a movie, something else entirely.
And, no, it's still impossible to tell quite what Lifehouse is about, even if discs five and six contain in its entirety the BBC Radio play, performed December 4, 1999 (the nifty booklet included with the package even contains the script, which is lucid and absolutely impenetrable).
Discs one and two contain the original Lifehouse demos, including several songs written for Who Are You.
www.dallasobserver.com /issues/2000-03-23/outthere.html   (511 words)

  
 The Who - Who's Next
That album, Lifehouse, was supposed to change the concept of Rock.
His last solo album, Psychoderelict, is based upon the same ideas as Lifehouse (it sort of tells Townshends story while the was working on Lifehouse) and features a number of original synthesizer demos he made during the Lifehouse period.
Townshend also suggests that Lifehouse and Psychoderelict may be combined at one point so that the story of Lifehouse will finally be complete.
home.planet.nl /~hans.maarel/review/whonext.html   (395 words)

  
 Lifehouse Guitar Chord   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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