I started off this morning at a very different place than where I finished when I began looking for this Sunday morning’s musical selection. I started watching videos from Long John Baldry which somehow led to Neko Case which even more oddly led me to Oscar Peterson and Count Basie.
It was all good and fine but it just wasn’t right yet and I found myself watching a video of The Who‘s Love Reign O’er Me from Pete Townsend‘s reworking of their classic rock opera Quadrophenia in 2015 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at Royal Albert Hall. It featured British tenor Alfie Boe singing Roger Daltrey‘s part. It still didn’t quite come up to the original as far as the intangibles– raw emotion and Daltrey’s vocal authenticity– are concerned but it is still very good and musically powerful. I mean, it’s the Royal Philharmonic– how can you go wrong with that?
But this just made me want more of that fire that The Who just seemed to ooze when they were at their apex. And one song seemed to fit these times so well and fell perfectly into my own feelings at the moment– Won’t Get Fooled Again. I don’t think I need to say anymore. I also threw in the newer version of Love Reign O’er Me below. Give a listen and have a good day…
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