TOMMY: THE MOVIE. In 1969, Pete Townshend and Who manager Kit Lambert outline a movie treatment for a film version of Tommy. It takes another four years before the project begins to properly ...

A 1975 film adaptation, directed by Ken Russell, starred The Who’s Roger Daltrey as Tommy and featured Oliver Reed, Ann-Margret, Elton John as the Pinball Wizard and Tina Turner as the Acid Queen.

As Tommy’s cousin Kevin, Bobby Conte finds the right balance between comedy and cruelty. As a child, he initially sees Tommy as a toy to play with and as he grows older, he becomes a bully to ...

This is the risk, or simply the fact, of live theater: Watch Elton John and Tina Turner in Ken Russell’s 1975 film of Tommy, and you’re watching something fixed in time.

The 1975 movie gave us Tina Turner in top form — enough said. The original 1993 Broadway musical, with its flying Tommy and galloping pinball machine, was a visual groundbreaker, warmed by ...

The amazing journey of “Tommy” will lead back to Broadway in 2024. “The Who’s Tommy,” a newly reworked version of the Chicago stage production directed by Des McAnuff, is coming to the ...

Tommy' is an incredible work from The Who, but there's one element of the album and subsequent musical film that I still don't understand.

It’s been a long, wild trip since 1969, when the opening chords of Pete Townshend’s “Tommy,” written with and recorded by the Who, first blasted onstage. The band toured the genre-defying ...

The Who‘s Tommy has a number of unique casting choices.For example, a classic rock star plays a priest in the film. That star later played a priest in the music video for a famous band. The ...