Where to begin? the album is one of the gratest, true. There is a lot of Auto-biography from Pete here, like in most of his songs, because he writes from experience. The autobiographical bomb-shell for Pete himself was the abuse subject in the album (he had not come to terms with his abuse as a child at the time this album was written.
The movie needs to e watched a few times to be appreciated, after the first viewing I was disgusted, only because I expected the album on film...
As a movie it delivers the same message in an artistic way...Ann Margaret in the beans just shows how rediculously wealthy tommy had become--TV, jewelry, beans soap, mass quantities of consumer products. 1921-1951: not a huge deal, Tommys dad still goes off to war and is MIA, and Tommy becomes a Guru in the 60's which seems like a more appropriate time for that kind of thing anyway.
Where to begin? the album is one of the gratest, true. There is a lot of Auto-biography from Pete here, like in most of his songs, because he writes from experience. The autobiographical bomb-shell for Pete himself was the abuse subject in the album (he had not come to terms with his abuse as a child at the time this album was written. The movie needs to e watched a few times to be appreciated, after the first viewing I was disgusted, only because I expected the album on film... As a movie it delivers the same message in an artistic way...Ann Margaret in the beans just shows how rediculously wealthy tommy had become--TV, jewelry, beans soap, mass quantities of consumer products. 1921-1951: not a huge deal, Tommys dad still goes off to war and is MIA, and Tommy becomes a Guru in the 60's which seems like a more appropriate time for that kind of thing anyway.
-Reg