The only thing less likely than Thunderclap Newman, the strange band masterminded by Pete Townshend in 1969, having a No. 1 single is the notion that a 400-plus page history of them would be published ...
On this date 55 years ago — May 17, 1969 — the British rock band The Who released what it called a “rock opera”: “Tommy,” the story of a boy traumatized as a youth and suffering with a psychosomatic ...