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The Who, Pete Townshend, Mike Kelly, Richard Bailey, Chris Stainton, Davey Johnstone, Pete Townshend, Chris Stanton, Elton John, Liza Strike - Tommy (1975 Film)

The Who, Pete Townshend, Mike Kelly, Richard Bailey, Chris Stainton, Davey Johnstone, Pete Townshend, Chris Stanton, Elton John, Liza Strike - Tommy (1975 Film)

Band: The Who, Pete Townshend, Mike Kelly, Richard Bailey, Chris Stainton, Davey Johnstone, Pete Townshend, Chris Stanton, Elton John, Liza Strike Title: Tommy (1975 Film) Rating: Release Date: 17 April, 2001 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Overture From Tommy - The Who 2: Prologue 1945 - Pete Townshend/John Entwhistle 3: Captain Walker/It's A Boy - Pete Townshend 4: Bernie's Holiday Camp - The Who 5: 1951/What About The Boy? - Ann-Margaret/Oliver Reed 6: Amazing Journey - Pete Townshend 7: Christmas - Ann-Margaret/Oliver Reed/Alison Dowling 8: Eyesight To The Blind - Eric Clapton 9: Acid Queen - Tina Turner 10: Do You Think It's Alright (I) - Ann-Margaret/Oliver Reed 11: Cousin Kevin - Paul Nicholas 12: Do You Think It's Alright (II) - Ann-Margaret/Oliver Reed 13: Fiddle About - The Who 14: Do You Think It's Alright (III) - Ann-Margaret/Oliver Reed 15: Sparks - The Who 16: Extra, Extra, Extra - Simon Townshend 17: Pinball Wizard - Elton John 18: Champagne - The Who/Ann-Margaret/Roger Daltrey 19: There's A Doctor - Ann-Margaret/Oliver Reed 20: Go To The Mirror - Ann-Margaret/Oliver Reed/Jack Nicholson/Roger Daltrey 21: Tommy Can You Hear Me? - Ann-Margaret 22: Smash The Mirror - Ann-Margaret 23: I'm Free - Roger Daltrey 24: Mother And Son - Pete Townshend 25: Sensation - Roger Daltrey 26: Miracle Cure - Simon Townshend 27: Sally Simpson - Pete Townshend/Roger Daltrey 28: Welcome - Pete Townshend 29: T.V. Studio - Pete Townshend 30: Tommy's Holiday Camp - Keith Moon 31: We're Not Gonna Take It - Roger Daltrey And Chorus 32: Listening To You/See Me, Feel Me - The Who

Editoral Review To paraphrase Adam West: "Poor, deluded boy. During a 1971 concert performance, a seemingly relieved Pete Townshend announced that the event would mark the last performance of the Who's landmark rock opera Tommy. " Over the ensuing decades, the mushrooming popularity of the Who's tour de force would inspire an all-stars-meet-the-London Symphony album (1972), a star-studded Ken Russell film epic/soundtrack (1975), a Broadway show (1992)--and become an enduring millstone around Townshend and the band's collective necks. But it was over-the-top auteur Russell who would give the morality tale of the deaf, dumb, and blind boy-cum-reluctant-messiah some of its most indelible pop-cultural iconography: Eric Clapton as High Priest; Acid Queen Tina Turner; Elton John in sky-high stack soles as the Pinball Wizard. The accompanying album is dutifully sprawling, a monument to Me Decade excess studded with loopy star turns (including the, er, "operatic" charms of Ann Margaret and Jack Nicholson), swelling choirs, and blustery synth fills. As he would later do to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, executive producer Robert Stigwood manages to turn one of rock's seminal achievements into something more artistically akin to the World Wrestling Federation, and every bit as musically subtle. It's no mean feat to virtually overwhelm the Who on their own record; Stigwood makes it sound like a vendetta. Still, it's an album so ambitiously bad it's but one William Shatner performance away from being a kitsch masterpiece. --Jerry McCulley .. You can see a complete list of all The Who, Pete Townshend, Mike Kelly, Richard Bailey, Chris Stainton, Davey Johnstone, Pete Townshend, Chris Stanton, Elton John, Liza Strike discography, or go back to the The Who, Pete Townshend, Mike Kelly, Richard Bailey, Chris Stainton, Davey Johnstone, Pete Townshend, Chris Stanton, Elton John, Liza Strike tabs