Album: Tommy Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Year: 1975
You know how they’ll do something like cast Britney Spears in a film in order to get all of her teenybopper fans to go see that film? Well, that’s pretty much the same thing that happened with me and Elton John and Tommy.
When Tommy debuted in Fresno in early 1975 — downtown at the Crest theatre — I somehow convinced my parents to let me go.
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