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The lyrics are written from the perspective of a pinball champion, called "Local Lad" in the Tommy libretto book, astounded by the skills of the opera's eponymous main character, Tommy Walker: "He ain't got no distractions / Can't hear those buzzers and bells / Don't see no lights a flashin' / Plays by sense of smell / Always gets a replay / Never seen him fall / That deaf dumb and blind kid ...
"Pinball Wizard" (1976) " I Feel Like a Bullet (In the Gun of Robert Ford) " is a song by English musician Elton John written by John and Bernie Taupin , released in 1976 as a double A-side single with " Grow Some Funk of Your Own " from his tenth studio album Rock of the Westies (1975).
"They've paid their money and they've walked in the door thinking they're going to get a shortcut to God-realization. [Tommy] starts to make the rules hard. He says 'you can't drink, you can't smoke dope, you can't do this, you can't do that, you've got to play pinball, you've got to do it my way; if you don't do it my way, you're out.'
This musical inspired Data East's production of a pinball machine called The Who's Tommy Pinball Wizard, which used music, sound effects and artwork based on the original Broadway production; this machine was the third one after the 1975 pinball machine Wizard!
Much has changed since those early coin-operated days spent just trying to keep the ball alive for as long as possible. “Pinball games today are much more complicated, last longer, and have deep ...
'The Wizard of Oz' Though most people say 'Looks like we're not in Kansas anymore,' or 'Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore,' those quotes aren't quite right. Dorothy actually says 'Toto ...
"Pinball Wizard" was a major hit when released as a single. This sequence in the film depicts Elton John being backed by the Who (dressed in pound-note suits); the band portrayed the Pinball Wizard's band for filming, [123] but on the music track and soundtrack album, the music was performed entirely by him and his regular touring band. [121]
Tommy is a 1975 British psychedelic musical fantasy drama film written and directed by Ken Russell.It was based on the Who's 1969 album of the same name, a rock opera about a "psychosomatically deaf, mute, and blind" boy who becomes a pinball champion and religious leader. [5]