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Tommy

Great Britain · Arts / Music. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

5Records
1967–1970Date range
1Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1967

Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend1967

Arts / Popular Music

Rael includes musical ideas later developed for Tommy.

1969

Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend6 June 1969

Arts / Popular Music

The Who release the rock opera Tommy.

Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend1969

Arts / Popular Music

Life Magazine says of Tommy, "...for sheer power, invention and brilliance of performance, Tommy outstrips anything which has ever come out of a recording studio". Between 1969 and 1971 Townshend, along with other devotees to Meher Baba, recorded a trio of albums devoted to his teachings: Happy Birthday, I Am, and With Love

1970

Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend7 June 1970

New York · Arts / Popular Music

Tommy is performed at New York's Lincoln Center.

Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend28 November 1970

Arts / Popular Music

The Who hit #12 in the US with See Me, Feel Me from Tommy

Names involved

Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend

Provenance

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