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Dear music lovers,

yesterday we heard a record of Dee Dee Bridgewater produced by Stanley Clarke performing a song of Elton John from his abum “Blue Moves” 1976. Today I want to show you another song from this album which shows us Elton John in a way that you never saw and heard before. A virtuous piano player performing with the London Symphpny Orchestra. I heard the song first time in “Kleines Café” in the Inner City of Vienna in summer 1975, when my first big love of my life, a beautiful Eurasian girl named Elma Choung, left me. I just was 17 years old and when Elton John started to sing I coudn´t refuse to start crying and couldn´t stop until the end of the song. From this moment Elton John´s “Tonight” accompanied me through many adventures and experiences of my life, and I found out time after time that the track is a real effective can opener, but this would be another story. Please listen to the very touching lyrics written by Elton John´s long-term lover Bernie Taupin.

Here´s Elton John in the film “Tommy”.

Tommy
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Ken Russell
Produced by	Ken Russell Robert Stigwood
Screenplay by	Ken Russell
Based on	Tommy by The Who
Starring	Ann-Margret Oliver Reed Roger Daltrey Elton John Eric Clapton John Entwistle Keith Moon Paul Nicholas Jack Nicholson Robert Powell Arthur Brown Pete Townshend Tina Turner The Who
Music by	The Who
Cinematography	Dick Bush Ronnie Taylor
Edited by	Stuart Baird
Production company	RSO Records
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release date	19 March 1975 (United States)^[1] 26 March 1975 (United Kingdom)
Running time	108 minutes^[2]
Country	United Kingdom
Budget	$5 million^[3]
Box office	$34.3 million^[4]

Tommy is a 1975 British rock musical fantasy drama film based upon The Who‘s 1969 rock opera album Tommy about a seemingly disabled boy who becomes a religious pinball champion.^[5] Directed by Ken Russell, the film featured a star-studded ensemble cast, including the band members themselves (most notably, lead singer Roger Daltrey, who plays the title role), Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Eric Clapton, Tina Turner, Elton John, and Jack Nicholson.

Here is Elton John as “Pinball Wizard” performing with rock legend Roger Daltrey from the cult band “The Who”:

And here´s Roger Daltrey in a very rare video from the film “Lisztomania”.1975.

Lisztomania
Promotional poster for Lisztomania
Directed by	Ken Russell
Produced by	Roy Baird David Puttnam
Written by	Ken Russell
Starring	Roger Daltrey Sara Kestelman Paul Nicholas Ringo Starr Rick Wakeman
Music by	Rick Wakeman Franz Liszt Richard Wagner
Cinematography	Peter Suschitzky
Edited by	Stuart Baird
Production company	Goodtimes Enterprises Visual Programme Systems Ltd.
Distributed by	Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date	10 October 1975
Running time	103 min.
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Budget	£1.2 million^[1]

Lisztomania is a 1975 film by Ken Russell about the nineteenth century composer Franz Liszt. The screenplay is derived, in part, from a “kiss-and-tell” book, Nélida by Marie d’Agoult (1848), about her affair with Liszt.

Depicting the flamboyant Liszt as the first classical pop star, Lisztomania features contemporary rock star Roger Daltrey (of The Who) as Franz Liszt. The film was released the same year as Tommy, which also starred Daltrey and was directed by Russell. Rick Wakeman, from the progressive rock band Yes, composed the Lisztomaniasoundtrack, which included synthesiser arrangements of works by Liszt and Wagner. He also appears in the film as the Nordic god of thunder, Thor. Daltrey and Russell wrote the lyrics for the soundtrack, and Daltrey provided vocals. Of the other rock celebrities appearing in the film, Ringo Starr, drummer of The Beatles, appears as the Pope.

Please view this very rare video basing on Franz Liszt´s “Love Dream” arranged by keyboard legend Rick Wakeman.

By the way from my experience this track is as well a very effective can opener which can succesfully be used until present time.

And here´s Roger Daltrey and “The Who” with a song that you might know as the signation of the cult TV series “CSI Miami” – “Fooled Again”:

But back to the cult film “Tommy” 1975: Roger Daltrey performing with Tina Turner the song “Acid Queen”:

I want to finish my story of today with the song “I´m free” performed by Roger Daltrey and “The Who”
in the cult film “Tommy”.

I wish you a very beautiful Thursday and may you feel free today!

P.S.:

I forgot the most important song of rock opera “Tommy”:
See me, feel me, listening to you. It´s the final scene of this cult movie.

Happy Thursday. Tommorow I´ll be back with a new story!