I don't have a link, just a post from the official Who Facebook page that I'll transcribe:

Somebody had better dispatch the paramedics to Renny's house...

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Links added by Linda ...

From the left -- 1-CD Standard Edition, 2-CD Deluxe Edition, 3-CD/1-BD Super Deluxe Edition, 2-LP Vinyl Edition:

Amazon USA

    

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Amazon UK

    

Plus a Blu-ray Audio release, available only in the UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00EQ25DK0/?tag=imwan-21

I'm definitely in for anything with The Who. but the deluxe version from several years ago already had a complete disc of demos and outtakes. We've already got Leeds, Hull, Isle of Wight and Woodstock for performances from that era. So unless the demos and outtakes and the live stuff is different from what's already out there, I'll have to pass. It would be nice to have a complete disc of all of Pete's demos and another disc of outtakes. Sigh.

hate to say i told you so.........

and believe me they will just keep coming and coming as long people are buying.

we are, however, long long overdue for another version of "who;s next".

According to thewho.com the release date's 11/11/13.

I wonder what will become of this disc...

Surely it will be included as a special vinyl "bonus disc" with the new Super Deluxe Edition... $$$

I'm good with the Japan SACD of Tommy. I like the Who (60's & early 70's); but really have little interest after Tommy. To me, other than Who's Next & Live at Leeds they are an ok singles band & that's about it for me. I know many here will disagree with that statement! Endless Wire was a downright embarrassment that sounded like a bad demo to me.

The album has been in 5.1 for a decade now. My deluxe edition from ten years ago is a SACD hybrid with a full 5.1 mix.

I'm good, thanks.

http://thewho.com/blog/story/5852/#eZSO3mIDrUQGEH5Q.99

“TOMMY” BY THE WHO

SUPER DELUXE BOXSET and DELUXE EDITION

Remastered with 20 UNRELEASED DEMOS, A FULL UNRELEASED LIVE VERSION OF TOMMY and HI FIDELITY 5.1 MIX

Released November 11th 2013

August 28, 2013 – Tommy, The Who’s defining, breakthrough concept album – a full-blown rock opera about a deaf, dumb and blind boy that launched the band to international superstardom is to be released in Deluxe and Super Deluxe editions this Autumn.

Originally released in May 1969, The Who were at a career crossroads, known mainly as a singles band, but this project launched them as a serious ‘albums band’ and it has now sold over 20 million copies as well as regularly turning up in lists of the most influential albums of all time.

Coming after The Who Sell Out in 1967, it marked a complete change in style with Pete Townshend’s lengthy conceptual narrative bringing exciting new opportunities to rock music. Tommy was and remains to be an ambitious, complex and controversial work, which was initially banned by the BBC.

This new Deluxe and Super Deluxe version of the album comes with a wealth of previously unheard material in the form of 20 demos from Pete Townshend’s archive and also a full live performance of Tommy from 1969 taken from tapes that infamously Townshend asked the band’s sound engineer to burn!

18 of the previously unheard and thought to be long lost live tracks are taken from a live show at the Capital Theatre, Ottawa, Canada on October the 15th 1969. Three others, I’m Free, Tommy’s Holiday Camp and We’re Not Gonna Take It were lost due to tape reels being changed during the show so are taken from later shows of the same era

As discussed at length in Pete Townshend’s autobiography the tapes were all supposed to be destroyed but were kept by long time Who sound man Bob Pridden despite Pete’s instructions.

The Super Deluxe box also features a 5.1 mix featuring the complete album remixed in surround sound on new Hi Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-ray format

As well as the music the limited edition Super Deluxe boxset comes with a hardback 80-page full-colour book featuring rare period photos, memorabilia, a 20,000-word essay by legendary Who aficionado Richard Barnes and a rare facsimile Tommy poster housed in a hard-back deluxe slip-case.

http://www.thewho.com

TRACKLISTING AND FURTHER INFORMATION

Super-Deluxe Edition (UPC 006025 37473960)

Disc 1 – The original album (2013 re-master)
Digitally re-mastered in HD
Disc 2 – The demos and out-takes
Features 20 previously unreleased tracks from Pete Townshend’s demo archive.
Disc 3 – The 5.1 album mix – Hi Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-ray
The complete album remixed in surround sound on new Hi Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-ray format
Disc 4 – The live ‘bootleg’ album
Features 21 previously-unreleased tracks from various live shows from 1969

Hardback 80-page full-colour book featuring rare period photos and memorabilia
20,000-word essay by legendary Who aficionado Richard Barnes
Rare facsimile Tommy poster
Limited edition, housed in a hard-back deluxe slip-case

Tracklisting:

Disc 1 The original album (2013 re-master)

1. Overture 5.20
2. It’s A Boy 0.38
3. 1921 2.49
4. Amazing Journey 5.04
5. Sparks 2.05
6. The Hawker (Eyesight To The Blind) 2.13
7. Christmas 4.34
8. Cousin Kevin 4.05
9. The Acid Queen 3.34
10. Underture 10.01
11. Do You Think It’s Alright? 0.24
12. Fiddle About 1.29
13. Pinball Wizard 3.01
14. There’s A Doctor 0.23
15. Go To The Mirror! 3.47
16. Tommy Can You Hear Me? 1.35
17. Smash The Mirror 1.34
18. Sensation 2.25
19. Miracle Cure 0.12
20. Sally Simpson 4.10
21. I’m Free 2.39
22. Welcome 4.32
23. Tommy’s Holiday Camp 0.57
24. We’re Not Gonna Take It 7.06

Disc 2 Demos & extras

1. Overture 4:07
2. It’s A Boy 0:41
3. 1921 3:13
4. Amazing Journey 4:47
5. Dream One 3:09
6. Sparks 7:38
7. The Hawker 4:45
8. Christmas 4:42
9. Acid Queen 3:35
10. Underture (Dream Two) 1:47
11. Do You Think It’s Alright 0:26
12. Pinball Wizard 3:42
13. There’s A Doctor 0:24
14. Go To The Mirror! 4:32
15. Success 0:10
16. Tommy Can You Hear Me 1:15
17. Smash The Mirror 1:37
18. Sensation 2:47
19. Miracle Cure 0:11
20. Sally Simpson 4:50
21. I’m Free 2:27
22. Welcome 3:26
23. We’re Not Gonna Take It 5:02
24. Trying To Get Through 2:27
25. Young Man Blues 2:47


Tracks 1 – 23 - Pete Townshend – original demos.
All previously unreleased except 2, 11 and 12 – released in 2003
Track 24 – The Who – studio demo/out-take.
Track 25 – The Who – studio recording (NOTE: This version was previously only available on ‘The House That Track Built’ vinyl sampler).

Disc 3 Hi Fidelity Pure Audio -Blu-ray disc (5.1 mixes)

Overture 5.20
It’s a boy 0.37
1921 2.49
Amazing journey 5.05
Sparks 2.05
The Hawker 2.14
Christmas 4.34
Cousin Kevin 4.07
The acid queen 3.34
Underture 10.05
Do you think it’s alright? 0.25
Fiddle about 1.31
Pinball wizard 3.01
There’s a doctor 0.24
Go to the mirror! 3.48
Tommy can you hear me? 1.35
Smash the mirror 1.33
Sensation 2.27
Miracle cure 0.12
Sally Simpson 4.11
I’m Free 2.39
Welcome 4.32
Tommy’s holiday camp 0.57
We’re not gonna take it 7.06

Disc 4 Live Bootleg

1. Overture (including Introduction) 7.00
2. It’s A Boy 0.39
3. 1921 2.28
4. Amazing Journey 5.07
5. Sparks 2.49
6. The Hawker (Eyesight To The Blind)1.54
7. Christmas 3.11
8. The Acid Queen 3.30
9. Pinball Wizard 2.47
10. Do You Think It’s Alright? 0.21
11. Fiddle About 1.12
12. Tommy Can You Hear Me? 0.55
13. There’s A Doctor 0.24
14. Go To The Mirror! 3.22
15. Smash The Mirror 1.10
16. Miracle Cure 0.12
17. Sally Simpson 4.01
18. I’m Free 2.12
19. Tommy’s Holiday Camp 0.48
20. We’re Not Gonna Take It 3.28
21. See Me, Feel Me / Listening To You 7.51

OTHER FORMATS OF THE WHO’s TOMMY DELUXE EDITION


Physical

2-CD deluxe, digi-pak
CD 1 Original album remastered
CD 2 Live Bootleg

1-CD remastered version
Original album (single disc)

Deluxe vinyl edition

2-piece, heavyweight
Original LP configuration

UVINYL Website
Exclusive vinyl version of live ‘bootleg’ album

Hi Fidelity Pure Audio (Blu-ray)
‘Stand-alone’ original album mixed in 5.1

Digital Formats

Super-deluxe box set

Tracks from SDE box, excluding 5.1 mixes
+ MFiT version (iTunes only)


Digital deluxe edition
‘Mirror’ of 2-CD physical
+ MFiT version (iTunes only)


Digital album (original album)
Mirror’ of 1-CD physical
+ MFiT version (iTunes only)

I've always disliked Tommy for the most part (I think I explained why on my Who albums thread) and still don't own a copy, but now I can garb the 2 CD version and be done with it.

I'm a Who nut and I don't like Tommy. I think that makes me very odd.

I'm with you Pete. I love the Who, and I think their early 70s material is some of the finest r&r ever recorded. But aside from the few hits and pieces that were cannibalized on Live At Leeds, I find this unlistenable.

I like the film though. Ann Margaret was smokin'!

I'll certainly be interested to hear what folks think about this one — particularly discs 2 and 3 — and will make a decision about ordering the Super-Deluxe Edition at that time. Can't imagine needing the one- or two-disc versions. It'll be all or nothing for me here.

I realize it was written and recorded a couple of decades later, but I can't help thinking that Townshend's demo for "I Believe My Own Eyes," the ballad sung by Tommy's parents and only new song in the 1993 stage show, would have been a nice — and appropriate in some ways — end-of-disc bonus for the "Demos & Extras" collection. Townshend won a Tony that year for Best Original Score, after all, and AFAIK, that demo is only available in a CD single housed inside a pasted-in-pocket of the hardcover book issued to coincide with the show.

It's always the same old stuff, over and over and over and over again.








(Sort of like a typical Renny post.)

are you talking about me.............or are you talking about townshend...........because either way it's true

Blu-ray 5.1 mix? Mmmmm that's a selling point for me. I didn't really like the SACD 5.1 mix totally but it was very good in spots (thought Pinball Wizard was off though). Wonder if this is a different take or just that mix redone on Blu?

Anyway I am a sucker for anything Who.

If you remember the film "Almost Famous" and when his sister said to her brother and I'm paraphrasing "Play side 2 , the Underture from Tommy, it will change your life". Well that kid was me.

"Tommy" was the first Who album I ever heard (and purchased) and I was hooked for a lifetime. I love collector sets and I will add this to the collection. Would love to hear a 5.1 mix on Blu-Ray AND very interested in the live disc from that time.

Rick A.

The new editions of Tommy are now starting to be listed by Amazon. See the first post for all available links. (As I type this, only the UK pressings are pre-orderable, but the Amazon USA listings should be going live soon.)

Here's a closer look at the Super Deluxe Edition packaging:



http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00DWVOPHI/?tag=imwan-21

What's next? Super deluxe box sets for the Wasp Man and Dogs Pt. 2 singles?

alas, possibly true.

This always gets me. There isn't anything "rare" about a facsimile. Ugh!

My prediction is (you heard it here first) is the next 5.1 Blu-ray version which will be remastered by Steven Wilson,
who obviously was too busy to schedule this one this time 'round....

Submitted my order via Amazon..de (Germany) for 18.60 EUR = 24.6416 USD . Six dollars a disc, yeah I can do this.

Rick A.