The Who Sensation The Story of Tommy (2014)

The Whos seminal double album Tommy released in 1969 is a milestone in rock history It revitalized the bands career and established Pete Townshend as a composer and Roger Daltrey as one of rocks 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 midseventies 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