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Thomas Alden Page was born in New Jersey on May 24, 1970. He began playing the piano at age eight and learned keyboards at age 12, joining his brother in a band. Following graduation from high school, he moved to New York City and worked as a dress code checking clerk at a club called Nell’s. During this time, he studied business at N.Y.U. and also produced and recorded the song “Turning Me On,” promoting his EP to DJs around the city. After one year at Nell’s, Page had the opportunity to meet with Madonna’s producer, Mark Kamins, and the president of Sire Records, Seymour Stein. The meeting was Page’s ticket to fame, as it culminated in a record deal with Sire Records in the spring of 1988. That same year, Page debuted with his self-titled album which faired respectively in Asia on the heels of the minor hit ballad “A Shoulder to Cry On,” though went unnoticed in North America. Luck sprung again two years later when members of New Kids on the Block at the peak of their success landed a ride in the same limo and Donnie Wahlberg decided to “give T a number one song.” The result was, in addition to serving as the opening act for their Step By Step tour, a number one Billboard hit titled “I’ll Be Your Everything,” a song which brought together Page’s lead vocals and backup harmony by Donnie Wahlberg, Jordan Knight, and Danny Wood. The song appeared on Page’s sophomore album Paintings in My Mind, and soon he was appearing on talk shows like Joan Rivers and Regis and Kathie Lee, featuring on the covers of every teen magazine, and taking on his own sold-out world tour. Warner Bros. was quick to cash in on their new talent and within a six-month period sent him over to producer Mike Paley for a guest spot on the Dick Tracy soundtrack, issued a new Christmas single, and a third album called “From the Heart.” When sales flattened, Page was shelved by his American record label and deemed a one-hit wonder.

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Thomas Alden Page was born in New Jersey on May 24, 1970. He began playing the piano at age eight and learned keyboards at age 12, joining his brother in a band. Following graduation from high school, he moved to New York City and worked as a dress code checking clerk at a club called Nell’s. During this time, he studied business at N.Y.U. and also produced and recorded the song “Turning Me On,” promoting his EP to DJs around the city. After one year at Nell’s, Page had the opportunity to meet with Madonna’s producer, Mark Kamins, and the president of Sire Records, Seymour Stein. The meeting was Page’s ticket to fame, as it culminated in a record deal with Sire Records in the spring of 1988. That same year, Page debuted with his self-titled album which faired respectively in Asia on the heels of the minor hit ballad “A Shoulder to Cry On,” though went unnoticed in North America. Luck sprung again two years later when members of New Kids on the Block at the peak of their success landed a ride in the same limo and Donnie Wahlberg decided to “give T a number one song.” The result was, in addition to serving as the opening act for their Step By Step tour, a number one Billboard hit titled “I’ll Be Your Everything,” a song which brought together Page’s lead vocals and backup harmony by Donnie Wahlberg, Jordan Knight, and Danny Wood. The song appeared on Page’s sophomore album Paintings in My Mind, and soon he was appearing on talk shows like Joan Rivers and Regis and Kathie Lee, featuring on the covers of every teen magazine, and taking on his own sold-out world tour. Warner Bros. was quick to cash in on their new talent and within a six-month period sent him over to producer Mike Paley for a guest spot on the Dick Tracy soundtrack, issued a new Christmas single, and a third album called “From the Heart.” When sales flattened, Page was shelved by his American record label and deemed a one-hit wonder.

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Although Tommy is conventionally described as a rock opera, author and Who historian Richard Barnes states that this definition is not strictly correct, since Tommy does not utilise the classic operatic formulae of staging, scenery, acting and recitative. According to Barnes, Tommy could be more accurately described as a “rock cantata” or a “rock song cycle”. It most closely resembles an oratorio e.g. Handel’s “Messiah” in form, as it includes instrumental, choral and solo sections, with no dialogue between characters, and no sets, costumes or choreography. A counter argument to Barnes would be that new operas are frequently performed without the first three features before a full mounting, similarly to Tommy, and some of its songs, such as “1921″, “Christmas”, “Do You Think It’s All Right” and “Go to the Mirror” have the qualities of recitative and dialogue, while it has subsequently been performed with choreography and costuming, including by the Seattle Opera in 1971 and by a Canadian ballet company dancing to the album recording shortly thereafter.

Musically, the original album is a complex set of pop-rock arrangements, generally based upon Townshend’s acoustic guitar and built up with many overdubs by the four members of the band using many instruments, including bass, electric and acoustic guitars, piano, organ, drum kit, gong, timpani, trumpet, French horn, three-part vocal harmonies and occasional doubling on vocal solos. Many of the instruments only appear intermittentlythe 10-minute “Underture” features a single toot on the hornand when overdubbed many of the instruments are mixed at low levels. Townshend mixes fingerpicking in with his trademark power chords and fat riffs. His later interest in synthesizers is foreshadowed by the use of taped sounds played in reverse to give a whistling, chirping sound on “Amazing Journey”.

Tommy was originally released as a two-LP set with a thin booklet of lyrics and artwork in a triptych-style fold-out cover. All three of the outer panels of the triptych are spanned by a single Pop Art painting by Mike McInnerney. The drawing is a sphere with diamond-shaped cutouts and an overlay of clouds and seagulls rendered with a figure-ground ambiguity similar to that in the work of M. C. Escher. To one side a star-spangled hand bursts from the dark background, index finger pointing forward. The image above only shows the central panel of the triptych. The label’s executives insisted on having a picture of the band on the cover, so, small, barely recognizable images of the band members’ faces were inserted into the gaps in the sphere, each with an outstretched hand like a groping Tommy Walker. The most recent remastered CD release reverts to McInnerney’s original artwork without the faces. The internal artwork consists of a photo of some jugglers/magicians and some very simple paintings that only hint at illustrating the story.

MCA re-released the album as a two-CD set in 1984. The CDs were in separate jewel cases and each had a miniaturised copy of the original artwork and lyrics in the insert, though it only included two panels of the magnificent triptych. Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab later published it on a single gold-plated Ultradisc in their Original Master Recording series, with a much improved reproduction of the artwork including a fold-out of the full original cover, and with the substitution of an alternate take on “Eyesight to the Blind”. MCA released a newly remixed version on a single disc in 1996, complete with good artwork and a written introduction by Richard Barnes. This version included instrumental parts that were not present on any earlier version, particularly noticeable in the cymbals of “The Acid Queen”.

Currently Tommy is available as a deluxe two-disc hybrid SACD with a 5.1 multi-channel mix. This was done utilizing master tapes that were thought long lost. When Tommy was first released, a “sweetened” master tape was used incorporating echo effects and doubling the vocal harmonies. This bare-bones master is said to have a more warm and natural sound to give a more “live” feel. Many critics have hailed this release to be the more definitive edition. The re-mastering was done under the supervision of Townshend and also includes some outtakes and other cuts during the same sessions. One cut called “Dogs-Part 2″ that was only previously available as the B-side of the “Pinball Wizard” single and on the 1987 collection Two’s Missing is included.

Townshend also oversaw the production of a new double-LP recording that returned the music to its rock roots, and on which the unrecorded orchestral arrangements he had envisaged for the original Tommy LP were realised by the extensive use of synthesiser. The soundtrack LP also employed many leading sessions musicians including Caleb Quaye and longtime Who associate John “Rabbit” Bundrick. Due to Keith Moon’s commitments with the filming of Stardust, Kenney Jones played drums on most of the album. The song “Pinball Wizard” was a major hit when released as a single. The film depicts Elton being backed by The Who dressed in pound-note suits. Curiously, although the music for this song is performed entirely by Elton John and his band on the soundtrack album, Townshend, Moon and Entwhisle perform live along with the Elton John Band backing track in the film sequence. Most of the extras were students at Portsmouth Polytechnic and were paid with tickets to a Who concert after filming had finished. Ken Russell included the shots he took of the South Parade Pier at Southsea, which burned down while the crew were in town.

In 1993, Townshend and La Jolla Playhouse theatrical director Des McAnuff wrote and produced a Broadway musical adaptation of Tommy. The production, titled The Who’s Tommy, featured a new song by Townshend “I Believe My Own Eyes”, several rewrites in lyrics, and an all-star cast. Initially, the show received mixed reviews for example, while The New York Times theatre critic Frank Rich praised it, 8 the same paper’s music critic Jon Pareles argued that “Their Townshend’s and McAnuff’s changes turn a blast of spiritual yearning, confusion and rebellion into a pat on the head for nesters and couch potatoes”.9 Later, Townshend partly responded to the criticisms.10 Ultimately, the production won five Tony Awards that year, including Best Original Score for Townshend. Various touring revivals have met with popular acclaim since.

The musical version reorganises the numbers and changes many lyrics. The setting is in post-World War II Britain, as in the film version. Nevertheless, unlike the film, the lyrics “Got a feelin ‘21 is gonna be a good year” remain the same, though now referring to Mrs. Walker’s birthday. Also, Captain Walker kills the lover, as in the original album and unlike the film, where the lover kills Captain Walker and takes his place. Perhaps the most striking change vis-a-vis previous versions is that after the “Sally Simpson” scene, Tommy renounces his messianic role and returns to his family, embracing and praising the kind of “normality” that everybody else has and that he has been deprived of significantly, the new version introduced lines such as “freedom lies here in normality” and excluded the earlier versions’ “Hey, old hung-up Mr. Normal, don’t try to gain my trust”.

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playing the piano at age eight and learned keyboards at age 12, joining his brother in a band. He moved to New York City after high school and got a job at a club called Nell’s Page, where he met the president of Sire Records. This ultimately resulted in a recording contract with the label in 1988. That same year, Page debuted with his self-titled album which faired respectively in Asia, but failed to make waves in North America. After a chance meeting with then superstars New Kids On the Block, Page recorded one of their tunes”I’ll Be Your Everything,” which catapulted to #1 on the Billboard charts and landed Page a gig as the opening act on the New Kids’ Step By Step tour. The song appeared on Page’s sophomore album Paintings in My Mind, and soon he was seen on talk shows like Joan Rivers and Regis and Kathie Lee and was featured on the covers of every teen magazine. Page also went on his own sold-out world tour. In the United States, sales of subsequent songs flattened and an affiliation with Warner Brothers fizzled, but Page hooked up with the label’s cousin in Japan, where he was still extremely popular. Soon after, he headed over to the Asian Pony Canyon Records and released two new albums Time in 1994 and Loving You in 1996. Following the economic downturn in Japan, Page came back to the U.S. and recorded one final album before devoting himself to producing other artists. Still, in a recording career that spanned over a decade, he released seven albums and wore the crown of teen idol proudly.

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ReviewTommy Page’s 1988 debut album consists of high-energy dance tracks dripping with synthesizer, mild techno beats and the occasional ballad three to be exact. Those who only know him for his ’90s pop music might be surprised to hear this early record — it’s filled with the kind of sound that his later material shows only traces of. It is a consistent and upbeat blending of songs, and even though it hits a couple of dead notes, such as the bland “Making My Move,” there is an ambitious energy penetrating the album as a whole. The standout tracks include “A Zillion Kisses,” “I Think I’m in Love” and the soaring, splendid, Arif and Joe Mardin-produced “A Shoulder to Cry On,” which has a message and orchestration equal in beauty. Peter Fawthrop, All Music Guide

CreditsMiguel Kertsman Keyboards, Tommy Page Arranger, Tommy Page Keyboards, Tommy Page Vocals, Tommy Page Vocals Background, Tommy Page Main Performer, Rachel Faro Vocal Arrangement, Scott Blackwell Mixing, Bashiri Johnson Percussion, Stephen Benben Engineer, Michael Brauer Mixing, Matthew Cang Guitar, Nick Ingman String Arrangements, Mark Kamins Producer, Mark Kamins Mixing, Robbie Kondor Piano, Robbie Kondor Keyboards, Art Labriola Keyboards, Tony Levin Bass, Arif Mardin Arranger, Arif Mardin Producer, Arif Mardin String Arrangements, Joe Mardin Arranger, Joe Mardin Drums, Joe Mardin Programming, Joe Mardin Producer, Joe Mardin String Arrangements, David Motion Arranger, David Motion Producer, Gene Orloff Concert Master, Alan Park Piano, Mark Partis Engineer, Mark Partis Mixing, Shelly Peiken Vocals Background, Shelly Peiken Vocal Arrangement, Bob Rosa Mixing, Roey Shamir Engineer, Ira Siegel Guitar, V. Jeffrey Smith Saxophone, Gavyn Wright , Philip Eastop French Horn, Mary Ann Dibs Art Direction, Jose Rodriguez Mastering, Nick Rogers Engineer, Nick Rogers , Isabel Snyder Photography, Gerald Ashbey French Horn, Maria Adler Vocals Background, Marla Adler Vocals Background

Thomas Alden Page was born in New Jersey on May 24, 1970. He began playing the piano at age eight and learned keyboards at age 12, joining his brother in a band. Following graduation from high school, he moved to New York City and worked as a dress code checking clerk at a club called Nell’s. During this time, he studied business at N.Y.U. and also produced and recorded the song “Turning Me On,” promoting his EP to DJs around the city. After one year at Nell’s, Page had the opportunity to meet with Madonna’s producer, Mark Kamins, and the president of Sire Records, Seymour Stein. The meeting was Page’s ticket to fame, as it culminated in a record deal with Sire Records in the spring of 1988. That same year, Page debuted with his self-titled album which faired respectively in Asia on the heels of the minor hit ballad “A Shoulder to Cry On,” though went unnoticed in North America. Luck sprung again two years later when members of New Kids on the Block at the peak of their success landed a ride in the same limo and Donnie Wahlberg decided to “give T a number one song.” The result was, in addition to serving as the opening act for their Step By Step tour, a number one Billboard hit titled “I’ll Be Your Everything,” a song which brought together Page’s lead vocals and backup harmony by Donnie Wahlberg, Jordan Knight, and Danny Wood. The song appeared on Page’s sophomore album Paintings in My Mind, and soon he was appearing on talk shows like Joan Rivers and Regis and Kathie Lee, featuring on the covers of every teen magazine, and taking on his own sold-out world tour. Warner Bros. was quick to cash in on their new talent and within a six-month period sent him over to producer Mike Paley for a guest spot on the Dick Tracy soundtrack, issued a new Christmas single, and a third album called “From the Heart.” When sales flattened, Page was shelved by his American record label and deemed a one-hit wonder.

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