Fifty years ago today, “that deaf, dumb and blind kid” who scored immortality in “Pinball Wizard” was born when “Tommy” — The Who’s game-changing rock opera — was released on May 23, 1969. And the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I vividly recall the afternoon in May 1969 when I bought The Who’s “Tommy.” I was 15 years old, and eagerly plucked that two-record LP out of the bin at a St ...

Each week, I'll present a new album for your consideration—a means for passing these uncertain times in musical bliss. For some readers, hearing about the latest selection might offer a chance ...

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 ...

Last summer, Roger Daltrey hit the road in America and played the Who’s 1969 rock opera Tommy in its entirety. He was joined at every stop by an orchestra in order to recreate the lush arrangements of ...

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 ...