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Certain Songs #1522: Pete Townshend ft. Roger Daltrey – “Sally Simpson”

April 28, 2019 by Jim Connelly

Album: Tommy Soundtrack
Year: 1975

I’ll always find it ironic that my first extended exposure to the music of The Who was via the Tommy film and soundtrack, which, as I’ve written previously, was primarily because of my love for Elton John.

And because the film was so-over-the-top and there’d already been an alternate version of Tommy — with the London Symphony Orchestra — I think that not a lot has been written about how Pete Townshend tricked up many of songs on the movie soundtrack with the musical sophistication he’d gained doing who’s next and Quadrophenia.

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Filed Under: Certain Songs Tagged With: Pete Townshend, Sally Simpson, Tommy Soundtrack

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