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September 26, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Tommy and The Fallen Horses: Openhearts

Tommy and The Fallen Horses Openhearts John C. Savage Every five years or so Tommy Benefield re-attempts a music career. He made horrible phony reggae/dub stuff, a sort of Jack Johnson-meets-Cat Stevens party-guitar vibe has disappeared down into this hokey outlaw-country crew, Tommy and The Fallen Horses. And if you sniff a bit too close […]
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September 25, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Roger Daltrey: The Who’s ‘Tommy’ Orchestral

Roger Daltrey The Who’s ‘Tommy’ Orchestral Polydor Need further proof that Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend are locked in a strange professional marriage? Well, after countless new tours as, effectively, The Two, Rog takes the summer off and tours one of Pete’s most personal set of ‘work stories’ all on his own. Well, all on […]
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March 4, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Cold Sweat Music: Ghastly-Wonderful Stuff…

Scott Walker’s, Bish Bosch – I could barely make sense of it. But I love it.  It was late. I was up, alone, headphones in, checking out the album – all I’d had to go on previously was this clip. And that’s the most energetic/lively piece on the album. The rest of it has the […]
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July 10, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 858

The London Symphony Orchestra, Tommy (1972) Is this the best version of Tommy? Yes…yes, it is. Or at least, I think it is right now. I’ve had a few different versions, movie soundtrack, Broadway musical version (horrid), and of course The Who’s double album, Tommy. The one that started it all…Something about this one really […]
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March 27, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Who: Quadrophenia – Live In London

The Who Quadrophenia – Live In London UMe Somehow, stoically, middle finger raised always, Daltrey and Townshend rage on into the dying of the light. Essentially they are now The Two – but in keeping with their combined anger, the way it’s always seemed, converting it into an energy all of its own – and […]
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April 9, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1539

The Who, Tommy (1969) I still like this album but it’s hard work a lot of the time. Perfect as a double LP – sometimes one or two sides is just plenty rather than all one hundred and fifteen minutes. But it was a big part of my introduction to The Who – so I […]
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