Before Media Theatre's production of The Who's Tommy, there was the double album. For one growing up in and around the 1970s, the songs that signified the birth of the rock opera were playing at any given hour on any FM dial. Midway through the decade, Ken Russell's trippy 1975 film version fleshed out the album's narrative, sort of, but its real purpose was to provide a backdrop during which the Acid Queen could do …
SOURCE: Philly.com at 02:07AM on April 13, 2011