'Christmas' – The Who
I spoke before, in my previous post on this subject, about songs that make us think of the needy at Christmas. Well, who could be needier than a deaf, dumb and blind child? This song is from the great 1969 album Tommy (and also the inferior 1975 Ken Russell film), and deals with how Tommy is so deprived, he doesn't even know about Christmas. This leads to the great refrain "Tommy, can you hear me?" (he can't, of course, but the father doesn't stop trying, bless his heart). The song also, incidentally, contains one of the random references to pinball ("playing poxy pinball...") that Pete Townshend inserted into the album at the last moment to gain the support of a prominent pinball-loving music critic (another was the whole song, 'Pinball Wizard', written in an afternoon and initially despised by Townshend, which became one of the band's biggest hits). Anyway, enough from me; click on the link, if you haven't already, and be entertained by Messrs. Daltrey, Townshend, Entwistle and Moon.
[13 days until Christmas!]
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