The Who gave the world many unique rock ‘n’ roll songs. For example, one of the only hit songs about a game is The Who’s “Pinball Wizard.” In his autobiography, Pete Townshend explained how the words ...

The Goodman Theatre has released new footage from Chicago’s must-see summer musical The Who’s Tommy, reimagined for a new audience 30 years after the original production opened on Broadway. Check out ...

Few songs by The Who are as legendary as “Pinball Wizard”. This hard rock power pop tune was a standout track on the band’s 1969 rock opera concept record, Tommy. The whole of the album is quite ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. A pop-up pinball arcade has joined the run of The Who’s Tommy at The Goodman ...

“Pinball Wizard” by The Who has long been considered a classic, but did you know it was written in a petty attempt to get a good review? “I just remember saying to him, with maybe an element of ...

It was back another universe ago in 1968 when Pete Townshend of The Who first publicly spoke in a Rolling Stone interview about making a rock opera about a deaf, dumb and blind kid. For some of you ...

Pete Townshend recounted the truth behind the story of how “Pinball Wizard” came to be part of the Who’s 1969 rock opera Tommy, forcing him to make the deaf, dumb and blind lead character into an ...

Green Day songs are some of the most essential classic rock tunes of the 1990s and 2000s. However, the band drew significant influence from The Who, one of the most iconic bands of the 1960s and 1970s ...

In both music and theater, the most successful works typically become archetypes, like “Oklahoma!” Yet others are sui generis, like “Porgy and Bess,” a description that also applies to The Who’s ...

At a recent concert at Wolverhampton's 3400-capacity Civic Hall as part of his Alive & Kicking tour, The Who's frontman Roger Daltrey, had to deal with a very persistent fan who was determined to get ...