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Lifehouse (Album)Lifehouse is a sci-fi rock opera double album by The Who intended as a follow-up to Tommy. It was abandoned as a double album rock opera in favor of creating the traditional rock album, Who's Next, though its songs would appear on various Who albums, singles, and Pete Townshend solo albums. 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. In the year 2000, Pete Townshend revived the Lifehouse concept with his set The Lifehouse Chronicles and the sampler The Lifehouse Elements. 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. The radio play was also released separately on a double cassette. Plot Summary Warning: Spoilers follow Lifehouse has three variations in its storyline: Who's Next version In the album, pollution is so bad, the populace are forced to wear Lifesuits, suits that could simulate all experiences so that the person wouldn't have to leave their homes. The suits are plugged into a huge mainframe called the Grid, similar to today's Internet, but it also contains tubes for sleeping gas, food, and entertainment; supposedly, someone could live out tens of thousands of lifetimes in a very short period. The grid is controlled by a man named Jumbo. The story begins when a farming family in Scotland hear of a huge rock concert called Lifehouse that is occurring in London, a sort of post-apocalyptic Woodstock, if you will. Their daughter, Sally, runs away to join the concert. They don't wear Lifesuits because they are supposedly out of the pollution's range and they farm the crops that the government buys to feed the Lifesuiters. Bobby is the creator of Lifehouse, he is a hacker who broadcasts pirate radio signals advertising his concert, where the participants personal data are taken from them and converted into music, quite literally, 'finding your song'. 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. Who Are You version Set two hundred years after the events in the Who's Next version, it tells the story of another attempt for a lifehouse concert, the concert holders are helped by "musos", a cult that worships music, and are hated by plusbond, the group that runs the Grid and the Lifesuits. Lifehouse Chronicles version Ray and Sally are farmers who grow, as Sally said "dead potatoes". Their daughter, Mary, runs away from home to visit a hacker whom has fascinated her with pirated radio advertisements. Ray goes to try to find his lost child, along the way meeting his childhood self, Rayboy, and his imaginary friend, the caretaker.
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