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Tommy on the Silver Screen

Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, April 1975

Pre-release skepticism was clearly in order. The handing over of Townshend’s likeable but jumbled spiritual parable to filmdom’s master of the Technicolor sick joke seemed artistically foolhardy, to say the least.

Total word count of piece: 1541

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