LIZTOMANIA: KISS ME WHERE THE SUN SHINES
“People are going to start thinking I’m Tommy. Liszt is a quick way of showing them I’m not Tommy,” Roger Daltrey recently told reporters, explaining why he took the part of Franz: to conquer an identity crisis.
“People are going to start thinking I’m Tommy. Liszt is a quick way of showing them I’m not Tommy,” Roger Daltrey recently told reporters, explaining why he took the part of Franz: to conquer an identity crisis.
Rick Wakeman got involved with the production because he so enjoys making a spectacle of himself (albums based on the lives of King Henry VIII, King Arthur, and Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth), that it certainly would be even better doing it on another guy’s dime and time.
Ringo? Obviously he accepted for religious reasons.
And of course, old top cat hisself, Ken Russell. Everyone knows how much he likes to flaunt his fantasies like some grand peacock. But like the peacock, Lisztomania never gets off the ground, instead preening its tawdry plumage for 2 hours.