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The Who: Sensation - The Story of Tommy

The Who: Sensation - The Story of Tommy

  • Overview
  • Cast
  • Crew

Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 8, 2014

Runtime

1h 53m

Genres

Documentary, Music

Original Title

The Who: Sensation - The Story of Tommy

Production Companies

Eagle Rock Entertainment

Director

Martin R. Smith

Description

The Who's seminal double album 'Tommy', released in 1969, is a milestone in rock history. It revitalized the band's career and established Pete Townshend as a composer and Roger Daltrey as one of rock's foremost frontmen. The first album to be overtly billed as a 'rock opera', 'Tommy' has gone on to sell over 20 million copies around the world and has been reimagined as both a film by Ken Russell in the mid-seventies and a touring stage production in the early nineties. This new film explores the background, creation and impact of 'Tommy' through new interviews with Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey, archive interviews with the late John Entwistle, and contributions from engineer Bob Pridden, artwork creator Mike McInnerney plus others involved in the creation of the album and journalists who assess the album s historic and cultural impact.