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The Who's Weirdest Songs #2
12:14 PM GMT 23/02/2009
2. Tommy's Holiday Camp
(Tommy, 1969)
The central character in Pete Townshend's rock opera really doesn't have an easy ride. Witness to a brutal murder that leaves him deaf, dumb and blind, young Tommy is dosed with hallucinogenic drugs, catapulted to a disorientating level of superstardom and subjected to all sorts of behind-closed-doors nastiness, mainly at the wandering hands of his own family. Credited to Moon, but written and delivered by Townshend, this 57-second vignette of circus organs and whimsical seediness hints at the sort of sexual depravity that caused many to dismiss Tommy as 'sick'. "The holiday's forevarrrrrgh!" oozes Uncle Ernie - the patron of this "camp with a difference". It's the sound of a bandaged, pox-ridden beast dressed as a 1950s Redcoat slowly spinning a tombola at the dead of night. As always, The Who's head honcho remained defiant: "Sickness is in the mid of the listener," Townshend told the Disc & Music Echo, "and I don't give a damn what people think." [RB]
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Posted by Ross_Bennett at 12:14 PM GMT 23/02/2009
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