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UMR is proud to announce PETE TOWNSHEND LIVE > IN CONCERT 1985-2001 an expanded 14-CD box set and digital set featuring seven long-out-of-print live albums by Pete Townshend.

UMR is proud to announce PETE TOWNSHEND LIVE > IN CONCERT 1985-2001 an expanded 14-CD box set and digital set featuring seven long-out-of-print live albums by Pete Townshend.

'Pushin' Too Hard' is a 94-track celebration of 1960s garage punk, a retrospectively named genre first compiled on Lenny Kaye's seminal 1972 collection 'Nuggets'. This is raw, exciting music with tons of attitude - fuzz guitars, swirling organs, wailing harmonicas, thumping drums and tough vocals are plentiful. In the mid 1960s, teenage rock 'n' roll groups proliferated throughout the USA, often inspired by 'British Invasion' bands such as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Yardbirds as well as US styles including surf, blues and folk rock. Most towns and cities had local scenes revolving around dance parties, clubs and 'battle of the bands' contests and many of the bands here were regional royalty but never broke nationally. Key bands featured include The Seeds, The Sonics, The Standells, The Shadows Of Knight, The Thirteenth Floor Elevators, Love, The Electric Prunes, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, We The People and ? & The Mysterians. There are national US Billboard Hot 100 hits from Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs - 'Wooly Bully' (#2), The Strangeloves - 'I Want Candy' (#11), The Castaways - 'Liar, Liar' (#12), The Beau Brummels - 'Just A Little' (#15), The McCoys - 'Fever' (#7), The Bobby Fuller Four - 'I Fought The Law' (#9), Paul Revere & The Raiders - 'Just Like Me' (#11), The Barbarians - 'Are You A Boy Or Are You A Girl' (#55), Love - 'My Little Red Book' (#54), The Knickerbockers - 'One Track Mind' (#46) and The Seeds - 'Pushin' Too Hard' (#36) presented here in a longer unedited version. Rarities from The Blue Beats, The Dirty Wurds, The Apparitions, The Bedlam Four and The Jackals are released here on CD for the first time while many other tracks have never been released in the UK before.

Pete Townshend - "Live: In Concert 1985-2001" / For the first time, all the Eel Pie live shows have been compiled in one place to create, Live: In Concert 1985-2001, an expanded complete live albums 14 CD set. The albums in the set have been newly remastered by Jon Astley (longtime engineer for the Who) and have been unavailable since 2000. In tribute to this release, the set features rare artist photos and memorabilia in an expanded 28-page book. The set also contains sleeve notes by archivist Matt Kent with a new, exclusive interview from Pete Townshend.

Pete Townshend - "Live: In Concert 1985-2001" / For the first time, all the Eel Pie live shows have been compiled in one place to create, Live: In Concert 1985-2001, an expanded complete live albums 14 CD set. The albums in the set have been newly remastered by Jon Astley (longtime engineer for the Who) and have been unavailable since 2000. In tribute to this release, the set features rare artist photos and memorabilia in an expanded 28-page book. The set also contains sleeve notes by archivist Matt Kent with a new, exclusive interview from Pete Townshend.