HANDICAPPED CHILD ABUSED
TOMMY Directed by Ken Russell (Columbia) I am a real Tommy nut. I know every word and every note of the original score. I was there, third row center, for the world premere of Tommy which took place in Detroit in 1969.I bought the record the first day of its release.
HANDICAPPED CHILD ABUSED
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Robbie Cruger
TOMMY
Directed by Ken Russell (Columbia)
I am a real Tommy nut. I know every word and every note of the original score. I was there, third row center, for the world premere of Tommy which took place in Detroit in 1969.I bought the record the first day of its release. I pasted “see me feel me touch me heal me” in foot high letters on my bedroom wall. I played the original album until the grooves wore out, and then I bought another.
The movie Tommy. Visual brilliance to match the musical genius. I marched into the screening room at 10:30 one sunny morning fully expecting to be thrilled, amazed, dazzled and amused. 1 was not. (In all fairness, I should point out that I have not been thrilled, amazed, dazzled and amused at 10:30 AM since the morning of February 9,1968.) This wasn’t Pete Townshend’s Tommy; this was Ken Russell’s Tommy. Finally I understood how all the D.H. Lawrence lovers felt when Women In Love became Ken Russell’s Women In Love.