However, by 1970, Tommy had already been adapted for a Canadian ballet, prompting bassist John Entwistle to sarcastically ask, “What’s next? A marionette puppet show called ‘Dummy’?!”
The idea of adapting The Who’s 1969 album about Tommy Walker, a boy traumatized by the death of his father and becoming a deaf, dumb and blind pinball champion of messianic proportions was the last thing on Pete Townshend’s mind-and, arguably, on the minds of anyone who loved Tommy, the album. Like two star-crossed lovers of Shakespearian prose, The Who and Ken Russell consummated their creative marriage with the 1975 film, Tommy. Rising from this (teenage) wasteland were the bombastic, Wagnerian sounds of The Who along with the surrealist, sacred and profane visions of Ken Russell’s films. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the cringey, cocaine-fueled musical of the Beatles’ album starring the Bee Gees and Peter Frampton. Audiences flocked to see a stoned Mick Jagger share a bathtub with Keith Richards’ girlfriend in Nic Roeg’s Performance while Universal Pictures flushed $13 million down the toilet with Sgt. It was only a matter of time before Hollywood would slouch its way toward the rubble of the post-hippie pipedream to merge with rock & roll. The Seventies, as a decade, were a haze of confusion, paranoia and decadence.
Here’s the inside dope on the making of Tommy, the movie. The result, upon reconsideration 45 years later, is far better than you may have thought. turned to the maverick director Ken Russell. When the time came to conduct this bit of cinematic alchemy, Pete Townshend & Co. The story of a deaf, dumb and blind messianic pinball wizard was ripe for the cinematic picking. Sorrow by the Pretty Things or Village Green Preservation Society by the Kinks). I like their hamburgers myself.The Who’s 1969 double-album Tommy is generally considered the first ‘rock opera’ (cases could, of course, be made for S.F.
November Rain, I can play on the piano Well, not much yet, but I have the music. Ur' #3 up there, Pink Floyds, On The Turning Away, is good Anything off that A Momentary Lapse Of Reason album is good Ozzys and Litas If I Close My Eyes Forever is pretty good too. Rock Operas are like 'Hair', or, my favourite, 'The Wall', by Pink Floyd.īut, if you mean like which of those do we like, or would be good in a Rock Opera, I'd say 'A Night At The Opera', by Queen, would be good None of those are exactly, 'Rock Operas'. (12) Fire Inc Tonight Is What It Means To Be Young (6) Ozzy Osbourne & Lita Ford If I Close My Eyes Forever I am looking for what you consider the best in this category ), here are a few i like.
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