Tommy - Pinball Wizard - The Who/Elton John (1975 Film)
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Pinball Wizard by Elton John and The Who.
Tommy 1975:
After witnessing his mother (Ann-Margret) and her lover (Oliver Reed) murder his father, Tommy is commanded, ""You didn't hear it, you didn't see it, and you won't say anything to anyone."" Traumatized, the boy retreats into the shadows of his mind and becomes deaf, dumb and blind.
Growing into manhood, Tommy (Roger Daltrey) is subjected to bizarre cure attempts by The Acid Queen (Tina Turner), the Preacher (Eric Clapton), and the Specialist (Jack Nicholson) and in spite of his handicap defeats the Pinball Wizard (Elton John) to become the champ, hailed by devoted fans as a ""Messiah.""
With classic rock opera moments including ""Pinball Wizard"", ""The Acid Queen"", ""See Me, Feel Me" and starring Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Elton John, Tina Turner, Eric Clapton and Jack Nicholson, Tommy is set to rock your senses all over again with a newly restored print and an original source 5.1 surround sound extravaganza! - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
I remember seeing this in the theater when it first came out.
It totally blew my mind. After the movie, I sat stunned waiting for my parents to pick me up, take me home.
In those moments, I knew my life would never be the same again.
I became a lifelong musician, and at 61, I still play keyboards in a rock band.
But do you play a mean pinball?
@@frankthespank I play a sort of Aggressive pinball, but not quite mean. LOL
I do get pretty physically/vocally expressive.
Feet firmly planted, hips and shoulders moving wildly, and hands on the machine, both pressing the buttons like a mad man, and bumping the table, trying to make the ball do my bidding.
What I lack, is any kind of coherent strategy, just trying to get the ball to hit as many things as I can, and keep it from going down the chute.
What an amazing invention!
I know just how you feel. but did you ever feel the need to trash your keyboard, and or drum kit, guitar be it base or lead or do other members just lead you to a pinball machine, he has crazy little fingers after all, How do think he does it ?
@@michaelgwyndavies2827 Idk
@@anthonyforte7907 explain idk please or just call me daft no freaks going to beat my hand,damn he is just breaking every damn rule. Goodnight.
Can we take 5 minutes and 8 seconds to appreciate how great the 70's were?
Indeed, there's something about this era and Elton in particular that really makes you live the moment. Elton all but owned the 1970's and his songs comprised about half of the airtime in Los Angeles in the early/mid-70's. I was once waiting for a flight at LAX around 1973 when I was 14 and remember a very large number of females quickly running down the concourse screaming "Elton's here"!
The 70s were an abyssal ghetto of culture.
@@linjicakonikon7666 if you mean people weren't self-congratulating themselves every minute of every day for bringing up the value of select cultural groups over others, you'd be right.
@@ChatGPT1111 Nice one!
Dude, I'd take 5 years and 8 months! Glorious days they were, before technology came to enslave us. I mean do you see a single cell phone in that crowd? That was freedom
This is when Elton was able to sing with that particular higher pitch that almost sounds sped up,but wasn't. Unique tone.
It is pitched up in this bad recording..
@@compfox LOLOLOL... exactly. There are plenty of WAY better recordings of this out there.
"that almost sounds sped up,but wasn't." WHAT??? I hope you're trying to be funny because this is obviously sped up. You've just never heard this song played correctly.
Yes, " trying to be funny". By the way, I think you mean upload not recording.
By the way, Elton could sing like this without things having to be manipulated. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is one example.
Trivia: The wardrobe department had gone so over budget by this point in the movie, they were forced to ask Elton John to just bring in some of his own ordinary, everyday street clothes to shoot this scene. Thankfully, he obliged.
LOL 😆 LOL 😆!
So they spent the entire wardrobe budget on those big doc marten boots.
Young people today will never experience the icons that started it all back in the day
Everyone thought young folks out of control at that point . 🤣
Les 70's ont marqué my génération.....quel bonheur j'ai pu les voir en 1972 et plus tard. Quel groupe énergique et des musiciens hors pair.
Are u sure about that bc I'm a young girl and I know Elton john is
@@Slayy_queen4lifeIt's not knowing who Elton John is It's experiencing when he first became who he is. And hearing him in concert for the first times and all of the energy that was at that time. And he wasn't necessarily talking just about Elton John. The who was fantastic. And most of these guys are dead now.
Very true!
No matter how many times I watch this video, those giant Dr. Martens on Elton always make me smile!
They`re in the DMs Museum in Northampton now.
Funny that Elton sold them. Only way he would play the role, was if they let him keep those boots.
And it's where the "The bigger the feet..." conjecture started.
This isn't a scene from "Tommy". It's just Elton John hanging around his house on a normal Tuesday afternoon.
Daniel Bradford Totally!
When George Micheal was arrested his cell mate was a skinhead.When released George recorded Hairless Fister.
Craven Morehead Get out!
Daniel Bradford Lmao. Pretty sure I saw Freddy Mercury in the audience nodding in approval.
comettamer Wait, what? Where?
I was just an 8 year old kid in the audience the day they were filming this with Elton John and The Who. I was already a Who fan thanks to my elder brothers and the Who happened to be filming Tommy in my home town that summer. I was on my way home from school and walking past the Kings Theatre when I joined a crowd of trendy teenagers and got ushered in as extras all who were invited to form the crowds in the scene. I ended up on the shoulders of a young man who stood on the chairs in upper circle. It was pretty hairy but the excitement is something that never left me all my life. It was my first concert and my first shoot. Took me 40 years to see them in concert again.
Well lucky you !, my god this film is legendary to be part of 'Tommy' would be a dream for me Oliver reed, Jack nickolson, Anne (beautiful) margaret, Elton and the who !
PURE AWESOMENESS ❤️
Hey thanks that's a great story!
Did Pedo Pete offer you candy?
which town?
4 of us guys went to see this in 75 we were so stoned that this is the only part I can remember.
I remember that my friend Gail, our friend Charles and I called in to our jobs that night to go see that POS movie. It's the only part we remember, also. LOL The 70's WERE fun, weren't they? ;)
I got my grandmother to take me to see this ( my sister wanted to see "Jaws").... Grandma kind of liked the music but thought the movie was weird...lol
Yep, same here! I was forbidden to see the movie by my parents. Jumped on the forever reliable & always ready Schwinn Varsity & watched my first rock opera & as a bonus,
never got caught!
If Heaven isn't 1975 at 15 years old, I don't want to go.
Cheers moon man!
I sort of remember it the same way, saw it with some college buddies, "stoned agin"!
While the Who's version of this song is great, I have always thought that Elton's version is just stellar! He really took it to the next level with the production, piano, etc.....
I agree
Yes great ending and solo ..a really Kool sound that went with the Era!! 🎹🎹
agreed
It was all Townsend. This was from the movie the wall. Elton was a great choice for the movie
@@roberthansen7549 eh? The Wall was Pink Floyd mate! lol
Spice Girls: "we had the tallest platform shoes in music"
Elton: "hold my beer"
Can the spice girls play the pinball under their own brand name?
😂😂😂
Elton John and The Who together In Tommy. A Classic masterpiece...
absolutely !
And it’s the original band, with Keith Moon.
it was more than a masterpiece it was awesome as hell takes me back good time i loved the 70s love to go back
Can we just take a moment to appreciate how good Ann Margret rolling around in baked beans is?
Agreed…she still looks great (I don’t care how old she is).
She let down the troops in south east Asia, not her fault though Saigon fell,
I’ll second that.
I was a pre-teen in the mid-70s. Some rainy or snowy Saturday or Sunday afternoons, I'd be stuck inside. Sometimes I'd play with whatever toys or puzzles I had or I would read and sometimes I'd watch TV. Once, a rerun of Viva Las Vegas, with Elvis and Ann Margret was playing. I was about 9 or 10, but watching Ann Margret on screen, I knew I was heterosexual.
#ComingOfAge
That was a lil naughty, wasn't it ? :)
Elton John at the peak of his amazing abilities as a singer/performer. The Who as Elton's back up band at their peak of their oh-so-cool onstage antics ( Pete's conspicuous consumption of destroying guitars ). Roger Daltrey at the peak of his insanely sexy muscular hairless blonde-hair blue-eyed good looks - and it's filmed in an era before M-TV or music videos are invented. This was a moment that altered the rock & roll universe forever. Watch this, my children, and understand "genius"!
liked dee murrays guitar solo better.
Yes I agree must say the 70s was the best years
Today I still look back thinking how good we had days of brilliant music and rock
More creativity and inventiveness in this short 5 minute clip than in most full length movies nowadays.
No kidding!
I watch this and laugh with joy! God, we were spoiled, and didn't even know it. Those shoes!!!
Ikr. Can't get a pair of doc martens like that for love nor money these days. Even inserts don't make you quite as tall
"we were spoiled, and didn't even know it. "
That's why 21st century popular music came along; to make you realise how spoilt you were in the prior century.
Tommy was the "other" mid-night movie where I'm from. One theater would show Rocky Horror, the other Tommy. I can't tell you how many times I saw this In my teens.
Nobody but Tina could do The Acid Queen... Had to see this today. Much respect...
I was 12 years old when me and my friends went to the local movie theater in illinois to see this movie.
To say my mind was blown away .....is an understatement.
Thank god😂❤
I'm a huge fan of The Who and a moderate Elton fan but Elton owned this song from the moment he recorded it
AGREED. (Though I'm more than a moderate Elton fan, but DEF a huge Who fan). This version ROCKS!!!
Hard to notice with all the enormous talent, but that is one cooking bass line! Entwistle best ever hands down!
Elton used his own band to record his version of the song. The Who are not really playing here.
Dee Murray is the bassist you're hearing here
John Alec Entwhistle, AKA The Ox, AKA Thunderfingers. I could watch him play bass all day even if the sound was off.
That vintage Flying V bass from his collection though!
@@johnleurck7139 My favorite bass player. Elton's band was so underrated.
The chorus from this song just popped in my head this afternoon. Just out of nowhere. I remembered the 1975 hit by Elton John. Love this version over "The Who's" original. Elton made it better IMO. Elton's costume is hilarious. Love his facial expressions, and I want that hat!
Take your meds. Your critical thinking is shot.
I like Elton’s version better, too. I especially like the way he sings the chorus.👍
Elton seems a little bit taller than I remember him.
I don’t know why 😂
😅😅😅
Forced perspective
All the members of The who are very short
@@VinluvAntonHandesbukia actually no. He really did have very tall boots, and only did the film on the condition that he could keep the boots.
Elton John was absolutely perfect for this scene. On top of being one the greatest musicians ever, he really looks like he also could have had a career in acting.
He only agreed to do this scene if he could keep the shoes.
He does look like a British TV actor. There’s like a face they have.
Pk
@@flannagan3799 yes , Brits always pretend
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Keith moon just being Keith moon
In 2023, Tommy still being AMAZING
The pinball at the top of Elton's hat. Yes.
Wow, somehow I never noticed that. Thanks!
Which became Tommy’s at the end of the scene; guess that beanie is the “pinball crown,” lol. Personally I’d rather have the Docs 🤣
Those boots were so brilliant 😂
2023 still love the who pinball Wizard this blown me out then still playing my 1973 pinball today playing these great tracks today 😊
This might seem weird but I'm 11 right now and I love 70's music. I'm not old enough to watch Tommy yet but I can't wait to see it.
Quadrophenia the movie should be on your list. To be honest it is a better movie.
@@seaturtledog When do you think it's a good age to watch it?
I was 8 or 9 when this movie came out. My big brother took me to see it and I turned out fine.
There’s plenty out there waiting for you.
Oh, and you’ll definitely get a thrill out of Ann-Margret in Tommy
seaturtledog…..Tommy was horrible, so overrated, the movie that is. Quad is much better.
Through the magic wand of Elton John, the Who has made Pinball Wizard it's most epic tune.
Yes we will take 5 minutes and 8 seconds so that we will recognize how gifted and great Sir Elton John is YOU ROCK Elton ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉
might be one of the best covers version ever superb
I like how they snuck I Can't Explain in there
This was a great time to be a teenager
The movie, the music or the pinball before video games?
lol, I wagged school when I was 13 to see this when it first came out, now I will be 61 this year. A big Thank You to "The Who" and to "Sir Elton John" for the perfect music/songs
Tommy was the very first rock opera!❤️👍
I bet wardrobe was relieved when Elton already had the outfit
@It’s not Me: 🤣🤣🤣
TOMMY WAS AND STILL IS A MASTERPIECE OF A FILM LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT IT THANK TO EVERYBODY WHO MADE IT AMAZING 🥰 RIP KEITH MOON THEY'LL NEVER BE ANOTHER YOU SLEEP WELL 😃 BUT THEN YOU'RE PROBABLY STILL PLAYING THE DRUMS
This is:
the best scene of the movie,
the best theme of the film,
the best song of The Who, and
the best performance of Elton John.
Anything else?
tantrismx the best shoes ever worn? Lmao
and also the best eye glasses frame, lol
(and cap) :P
tantrismx Pinball Arcade has a remix of it.
tantrismx the most exciting scene
@UsirRaMaroon I have to admit I was a little disappointed the video cut off right before the Ann Margret scene.
Elton covered Pinball Wizard and Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds in 1975. 2 classic '60s tracks from 2 incredible bands The Beatles and The Who.
yes! i really like his versions of both songs
I was 17 when "Tommy" made it to the movie screen. It was a double treat for me because I was a fan of Elton John _and_ The Who. I was so hyped I went to The Northpoint Theater in San Francisco three nights in a row. The Northpoint (which closed in 1997) was known for having the smallest movie theater screen in San Francisco.
I was 10 when this came out, I knew this as an Elton song - it was all over the radio that summer - before I'd ever even HEARD of The Who.
Same here, Elton’s version was the first one I heard and when I heard The Who’s I was disappointed. It was good, but their’s didn’t have the same dynamic feel as Elton’s
Grew up with Elton Johns music but I never watched this-That was tremendous!!!!!
Such an amazing movie, album and concept, bringing all these musical talents and famous names together. There may never be another like tgis
50 years as a Rock N Roller and I have never seen this, A super treat. Thank You!!!
Watching Rocky Horror picture show was bizarre but Tommy just blew my mind as a teenager
This song charted no.1 for weeks, and it was never released as a single. It basically sold the album, "Tommy."
Happy 54th Birthday, Pinball Wizard!!! LOVE The WHO (Crushing on Roger), they're in my TOP 3 BANDS,...but I gotta say, Elton OWNS this song!!! I knew every word to this movie, back in the day - saw it 4 times in the theatre. *Yes, dating myself here. Rock ON Roger, Pete, and Elton! RIP Keith and John.
you are clearly a babe
It took alomst 3 minutes, before Keith Moon and Pete Townshend went into destruction mode.
Those two destroyed so many instruments back before they were rich and famous that the band was heavily in debt having to constantly buy new guitars and drum kits! They made only $12K at Woodstock-that didn't even cover it.
The Elton John Band does not suck. The Who are absolutely hero's.
My favourite scene in the movie, followed by Eyesight to the blind.
+Radio Rob Same. Also, EC was so hot in that scene! I'm a straight chick, so it's JMO. Not implying that's why you like it.
I like Sally Simpson too
i actually figured out how tommy could play pinball so well
because he can only see his reflection he just focuses on his reflection in the pinball so he never lost track of where it was
Damn 🤯
Great now can you postulate who was Tommy singing to at the end...after the disciples left him. When he sings. " Listening to you, I get the rhythm. From you , I get the story . Right behind you, I climb the mountain I get excitement at your feet "
That has been puzzling me last few days. And your insight into the pinball reflection was superb.
@@insanezenmistress that's something that I'm less sure about. I feel like that part is better left up to interpretation because it could have multiple meanings. If I had to guess I'd say he found god in some form but I'm not sure.
@@hurricanefury439 I would concur that as after his false enlightenment he still needed to be seen and heard and healed.
There was another water plunge and ..one of the multiple meaning I find is .... He learned that everyone's got a different pinball machine...the whole story of freedom and reality is in all of us.
So he was singing to you and me
But, he is blind.
I have seen a ton of musicals but that has to be my all time favorite musical scene in any film. This scene is pure energy, excitement and best of you have Elton John and The Who!
One of the most Epic scenes in any Musical.
This is my favorite part of the whole movie. I like this version better than the original version.
What an excellent version of this song!
Que saudades!!! nos anos 70 eu era "viciado" em Pinbal! hj tenho 57 anos, e sinto muita saudades! Acredito ser um privilegiado em ter nascido em 1960.
I was 18 or 19 in the Army stationed in Germany when this came out. We had been hearing the soundtrack on Armed Forces radio. We were on maneuvers while it played in the base theater. A group of friends and I went to see it. We were blown away. They don't play this enough on the radio.
If you follow Elton, you have big shoes to fill.
Get the hell out XD
Elton John to The Who: "I fixed Pinball Wizard for you"
Woke up trying to find Tina Turner as the Acid Queen but I love this song too lol
The 70's were so weird. I was born in 62 so I know what I'm talking about.
I was in Chicago and saw the world premiere in 1975
This IS one of the greatest movie songs ever done this movie has never got the recognition it deserves music has lost the innocence this movie projects
Gonna tell my kids this was how England looked like before Thatcher.
LMAO
For a couple of years in the mid 70's Elton was the biggest thing on the radio.
Yep, he sure was in Los Angeles, from about '72 to '76, about half of what KHJ and KKDJ played. I remember the girls at my school were just plain crazy for him, David Bowie and Rod Stewart at that time.
I saw this when I got back from Saigon. It changed my life.
Good ol' pinball wizard. A friend of mine had an arcade in his town close recently that was called "Pinball Wizard" and him, myself and 2 others harmonized this as tribute.
He did this so he could keep the boots. I get that Elton likes to wear extravagant stuff, but if I was him I'd want the piano pinball machine.
But those Doc Martens, man.
@@Malkmusianful that pinball machine man. All you have to do is play a song to play the game I know tons of piano songs. I might tilt by doing Moonlight Sonata.
The moonlight sonata? Well, the last movement perhaps. I’d hate to see what the Rach 3 would do.
According to my mom, he auctioned off the boots for his AIDS charity
I really miss the 70s. 0h well now I can't deal with kids that were my age
saw this at the theatre when i was 9. loved it then - love it now.
Gravatt Entertainment Huh, me too!
That's BECAUSE you were 9. I was 16, and thought it was CRAP. LOL
Me too - I was 10. Never forgot it
Wow. Talk about bringing back memories! I was a sophomore in high school when this movie came out. Went to see it. Liked it. Bought the soundtrack too.
Oh the 70’s! I preferred the 80’s myself. Great time for music too!
Thank you for uploading this! What a crazy combo! I always like both of them but never imagined a team up like that, damn costumes are enough already, lmao, I really enjoyed this!
Those are the biggest doc martins I've ever seen.
Glorious.
Back in 1979 my sister and l saw this movie 50 times!! 😅
'Tommy' is a master piece!
I always wanted to know about the backstory of the Pinball Wizard. Such a wild character, wish we knew more about him before Tommy defeats him, and what happened to him after. There is a story there for someone to write.
It's bullshit anyway. On the Album, the Pinball Wizard is Tommy himself, the song' s "narrator" is some kid from the arcades.
I suspect he probably settled down to an obscenely luxurious retirement (and wearing giant bunny slippers) afterward.
After all, if a newcomer like Tommy was able to buy fancy yachts and stately manors with his winnings, then Elton the longtime Champ must've surely amassed a GNP-sized fortune during HIS career.
(And we all know Professional Pinball was a HUGE sport back in the '70's. :)
Refugee from Willy Wonka, maybe?
@@sidnew2739 Some kid who handed his pinball crown to Tommy. So I think he is more than some random kid. So I think it would be a great story of what happened after he handed his pinball crown to Tommy. Every fictional story is bullshit.
@@Dresdentrumpet Nope, this one is especially stupid.
The ORIGINAL Album is dope, though.
I sang this once for middle school choir of all things and its been a fever dream since
Elton, magnificent performance. I know you didn't want to lose
ELTON...You Da King baby!!
Cuantos recuerdos de mi adolescencia ...!! Tenia 13 años cuando vi esta pelicula ...!!! Una de las favoritas de esa epoca ...!!!
35 years early.. every gamer wants to be this dude
Boy this brings back memories! I was stationed at Lowry AFB in Denver,saw the movie when it first came out,stayed at the same theatre on East Colfax for 6 months!
I was at Chanute when this came out . First time I smelled pot in a military theater ( smoking was legal then ) .
2:48 to 2:53 Keith Moon personified the soul of rock n roll in a few frantic seconds.
Even the great band the The Who said that Elton John did this song better I agree it somehow had more energy and The Who is one of my favorite bands
I agree it's miles better than the original
I was such a pinball nut in the 70 s I mean I m so lucky to be a teenager in 1976 the late the best era of all!! And disco doesn't t suck!!
Tommy = Best Rock soundtrack of the 1970s, thanks for posting.
It was an existing musical work turned into a film. One of the most important works in Rock and Roll. Listen to the live at Leeds extended LP when the Who played in live, years before the film was made.
I wonder how they decided that Elton John's master pinball machine should be an Art Decco fixture. I really love the organ overlay over the intro. It adds yet another dimension to the tune; sort of imperialistic, and then kind of melacholy once the piano arpeggio starts.
I still have some CD-ROM discs. And while the view could stand the time, this sounds AMAZING
HAPPY 70th BIRTHDAY ELTON JOHN....you did an amazing job with this tune in my favorite movie "TOMMY"
I can still remember with decent clarity being taken to this by my older siblings when I was six years old. Threre were some other teenaged kids from my neighborhood (that were around my sibs' ages) there also. I though it was a weird film, but I recall the vibe in the theater, etc.
Size 31 shoe-wearing Elton John in stilts singing “no freak’s gonna beat my hand” lol
He was bad-ass back then. Too bad he softened later on.
I love the '70s The Who Elton John
I loved this musical
Ken Russell was a cinematic mad man genius
70's gave us the best music.
Tommy is one off the lps ever double that is buy one of the best groups ever
There hasn't been a great Rock Opera in the last 40 years...Sad.
What a time to be alive.