Overture From "Tommy"

[stickmaker]

Back in the Seventies I became aware of Tommy, both the album and the movie. I also heard a piece which was identified as "The Assembled Multitude." It was obviously from "Tommy," probably from when when he is at his camp near the end, but I couldn't find the piece on the album, and it wasn't in the movie. Now, there was a lot from the album which wasn't in the movie or had been edited to fit. I figured the piece was a single version of the Overture, since the album Overture was about twice as long.

Decades later, I discovered that "The Assembled Multitude" was a cover band which specialized in popular versions of rock standards. They had released a shortened version of Overture for radio play.