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...Roger Daltrey, everyone agrees, swings a mean microphone...
Therefore, the idea of an anachronistic demi-rock opera starring demi-pop Star Roger Daltrey as Liszt has a certain cheeky appeal. The possibilities for gaining some fresh perspectives on popular culture, past and present, seem worth the risk of affronting our conventional biographical expectations. For a few minutes early in the film, when Director Russell presents a Liszt recital as if it were indeed a rock event, the experiment justifies itself. Poor old Franz becomes a hugely comic figure as he tries to satisfy the demands of his groupies (they want him to play his hit, Chopsticks), his conscience...
...spins it above his head, letting it fly farther and farther, in ever widening circles, like a lariat. The stunt was Daltrey's trademark as lead vocalist of The Who; it is still a profitable skill onstage and in films. Tommy, The Who's rock opera, was a gimcrack parlayed into a remunerative cultural artifact. So far, the various Tommy albums and movie receipts have accounted for some $50 million, in which Daltrey retains a generous participation...
...Daltrey also has two solo record albums to his credit-the second was 18 on the charts-an impending concert tour with The Who and the starring role in Lisztomania...
...each ear. Russell's tasteless hand-held camera is thrusting and jabbing, commanding us to feel the child's trauma. So of course we feel very little, which perhaps makes sense because Tommy is struck deaf, dumb and blind by the experience and soon reappears grown up as Roger Daltrey, blank-eyed and looking like the aftermath of a heavy night of smashing guitars in the days when The Who used to wear their coke spoons publicly around their necks, and rumors flew that thousands of dollars worth of the stuff was often consumed in one night...