Name: A Teenage Opera - Ost
Brand: Mark Wirtz

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

rpm165

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2011-01-31

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

The Orchard

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Mark Wirtz

Genre GB

Psychedelic

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the teenage opera - one of the legendary long lost projects of the sixties - comes to life for the first time. rpm presents the soundtrack for the teenage opera - in as near a form to the original concept as possible - as it would have been had emi not pulled the plug back in 1968. producer mark wirtz began work on the teenage opera story idea in 1966 when contracted to emi, and teamed up with a group of musicians including steve howe and keith west plus engineer geoff emerick. there are 24 tracks - most never reissued on any format, six previously unreleased. with the full cooperation of wirtz, the opera is presented as a film soundtrack and includes incidental music linking the tracks together, taken from wirtz's own library of original demos. these include different versions of the 'theme', 'grocer jack', and 'weatherman'. at the time, 1967, the teenage opera was very newsworthy with cliff richard being mooted to play the leading role in the film. the hype reached crazy proportions and made the daily newspapers. today the teenage opera is still talked about in 'whatever happened to' circles and its emergence now will be of immense interest to all lovers and collectors of 1960's music.

A Teenage Opera - Ost

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