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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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
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 […]Archive
April 9, 2012 by Simon Sweetman