The Who - Tommy (1969)

All songs written by Pete Townshend except where noted.

Tracks on the original UK version were:
1. OVERTURE
2. IT’S A BOY
3. 1921
4. AMAZING JOURNEY
5. SPARKS
6. EYESIGHT FOR THE BLIND (THE HAWKER)
(Sonny Boy Williamson)
7. CHRISTMAS
8. COUSIN KEVIN
(Entwistle)
9. THE ACID QUEEN
10. UNDERTURE
11. DO YOU THINK IT’S ALRIGHT
12. FIDDLE ABOUT
(Entwistle)
13. PINBALL WIZARD
As a single PINBALL WIZARD reached #4 in the UK charts and #19 in the US. Rod Stewart sang a heavily orchestrated version in Lou Reizner’s all-star adaptation of TOMMY in 1972, while Elton John sang it during a memorable set piece in Ken Russell’s TOMMY movie in 1975 (his version reached #7 in the UK). Curiously, in the UK, it was also covered by The New Seekers in a medley with SEE ME, FEEL ME, whose version reached #16 in 1973.
14. THERE’S A DOCTOR
15. GO TO THE MIRROR
16. TOMMY CAN YOU HEAR ME?
17. SMASH THE MIRROR
18. SENSATION
SENSATION was written long before TOMMY was formulated, apparently about a girl Pete met during The Who’s disastrous tour of Australia in 1968.
19. MIRACLE CURE
20. SALLY SIMPSON
This song was inspired by an incident that occurred when The Who played with The Doors at New York’s Singer Bowl in August 1968. Pete apparently saw the way Jim Morrison was inciting the front row, and the dangerous situation he created.
21. I’M FREE
22. WELCOME
23. TOMMY’S HOLIDAY CAMP
(Moon)
24. WE’RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT (SEE ME, FEEL ME)

This album is in my opinion one of the greatest of all time. Considered to be the first fully formed "rock opera" it defines the technique. It doesn't rock like other Who records but the songwriting is superb, and the story is told so well despite the difficult to explain plot of the album which is about a deaf, dumb, and blind kid who is a master pinball player and eventually becomes a kind of messiah for the people of the world (it works, I swear!). If you haven't listened to this record before you should definately give it a spin sometime, you won't regret it.

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