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Pete Townshend on the ‘Magic’ Era of Thunderclap Newman, ‘Tommy,’ and 1969, the Year That Saved the Who

And in a sense, when I started to work on “Tommy,” it was as a way of trying to save myself as the composer for a big rock band. The only thing less likely than Thunderclap Newman, the strange band ...
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The Who's Tommy Revival Tour

Myth and spectacle combine in The Who’s exhilarating 1969 rock opera, TOMMY—including the unforgettable anthems “I’m Free,” “See Me, Feel Me,” “Sensation” and “Pinball Wizard.” After witnessing his ...
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Photos: Inside THE WHO'S TOMMY Opening Night Curtain Call

Check out photos from opening night curtain call below! Three decades after the epic pop-culture musical theatre sensation first bowed on Broadway, original Tony Award-winning creators Pete Townshend ...
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Pete Townshend on the ‘Magic’ Era of Thunderclap Newman, ‘Tommy,’ and 1969, the Year That Saved the Who

The only thing less likely than Thunderclap Newman, the strange band masterminded by Pete Townshend in 1969, having a No. 1 single is the notion that a 400-plus page history of them would be published ...