Pete Townshend

Pete Townshend's 1972 solo debut returns in a new 2-CD edition.  A spiritual tribute to Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba, the album's genesis was in two mail-order tribute albums to the Guru (who died in 1969 after a 44-year vow of silence) in which Townshend had participated.  Songs from the tribute LPs were joined by demos from the long-aborning Lifehouse project as well as a pair of new songs.  The 1992 Rykodisc CD reissue appended six bonus tracks from the privately-pressed Baba tribute LPs, and a subsequent 2006 edition released in the U.S. on Hip-o carried over those tracks while adding another three.  UMe's new edition has a total of seventeen bonus tracks, eight of which are previously unreleased.  One bonus song from the previous CDs, "Lantern Cabin," appears to have been dropped, while some of the other carried-over bonus tracks are heard in new edits or alternate versions.