8/3/2023 0 Comments Roger daltrey tommy tourRoger Daltrey: To me it's every bit as relevant. VICE: Alright, so h ow is Tommy relevant 50 years on? Finally, he adds triumphantly: “When you hear it in real life (as those have on a recent American tour) it takes your face off.” It's very much rock,” several times, and “there are no overdubs, what you hear is what you get” several times more. He then backs this up by saying things like: “It's really rock. “We maintained the rock and brought the classical, and kind of invented a new kind of classical music, you know?” This new version is, according to the man himself, “majestic.” “This is how for me Tommy should have always been, because it's a real rock opera,” he says, grinning. He'll drop many others into our conversation like carpet bombs.ĭaltrey is about to release a live 50th-anniversary edition of Tommy, called The Who’s Tommy Orchestral(released June 14), the seminal rock opera written mostly by his bandmate Pete Townshend that has surfaced in a number of guises over the years: the much-loved 1969 album that sold 20 million copies the London Symphony Orchestra version that sold over a million copies on its release in 1972 and perhaps the most famous of all, the colourful and shocking 1975 movie with the all-star cast (Tina Turner, Oliver Reed, Elton John, Jack Nicholson etc) directed by the late enfant terrible of British cinema, Ken Russell. The name amuses Daltrey, who lets out a first shuddering, ebullient and slightly terrifying laugh. The observant among you will note The Hu sounds phonetically the same as his own legendary rock band. When I enter the room of a plush Georgian hotel in northwest London, the Who singer sits in a corner in a chair-cum-throne with his eyes down, legs splayed, gazing at a laptop as he plays some Mongolian throat singers called The Hu.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |