Both The Who and Pete Townshend are very well represented in this year’s fabulous White Label Auction in aid of The BRIT Trust
There are 11 lots of white label test pressings up for grabs from The Who and Pete Townshend . . . The Story of The Who, The Who By Numbers, The Who Live At Wembley, Quadrophenia, Live at Leeds, My Generation, Who’s Next and more. Some albums are mastered at half speed at Abbey Road and all LP have never been played. Plus some albums also come with a poster signed by Pete Townshend!
And from Pete Townshend we are offering white label text pressings of Empty Glass, Rough Mix (with Ronnie Lane), Psychoderelict, and The Iron Man.
Go and see what’s on offer and get bidding! And good luck!
See all the white label text pressings on offer from The Who
See all the white label test pressings on offer from Pete Townshend
Other artists whose test pressings commanded high sale prices included Celeste, Coldplay, Rachel Chinouriri, Duran Duran, Gary Moore, Gorillaz, Madness, Mike Oldfield, Muse, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Sex Pistols, Supertramp, Thin Lizzy, Louis Tomlinson, Paul Weller, and The Who. For full details see the Omega site.
Pete Townshend already dropped another set of half-speed mastered vinyl reissues from his solo catalog.
The latest will be the final set in the series, and will include 1989’s The Iron Man: The Musical By Pete Townshend and 1993’s Psychoderelict (Music Only), marking the latter’s first time on vinyl.
Both albums have been mastered on limited-edition black vinyl by noted producer and engineer Jon Astley, who’s also Pete’s former brother-in-law. The half-speed mastering technique produces superior quality vinyl LPs.
The Iron Man: The Musical by Pete Townshend is an adaptation of the short story by Ted Hughes. It features performances from The Who frontman Roger Daltrey, bluesman John Lee Hooker and Nina Simone, and includes two songs that feature the then-surviving original members of The Who, Pete, Roger and John Entwistle.
The BRIT Trust was established in 1989 by UK record labels with the BPI and the wider music community. Its founding mission was to draw on the transformative power of music and the arts to do good and to enable positive life pathways for young people of all backgrounds – recognising that this can best be achieved by embracing accessibility, diversity and inclusion as key values.
Funded largely by monies raised each year by The BRIT Awards and the Music Industry Trusts Award (MITS), The BRIT Trust has to date made more than 280 grant commitments totalling almost £30 million to a wide range of causes and charities across the UK that inspire people to realise their full potential and life chances, whatever their abilities, ethnicity, gender and sexuality.
