{"id":2750,"date":"2023-05-23T09:17:38","date_gmt":"2023-05-22T21:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=2750"},"modified":"2023-05-23T09:18:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T21:18:19","slug":"2750","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/?p=2750","title":{"rendered":"The Birth of Rock Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week in 1969  &#8220;The Who&#8221; released their album <em>Tommy<\/em>, a rock opera about a deaf, dumb and blind boy who plays a mean pinball. The lavish double concept album introduced a new genre: Rock Opera. The single <em>Pinball Wizard<\/em> became a classic hit. The album was developed into an acclaimed movie in 1975 starring Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Elton John, Tina Turner, Eric Clapton and Jack Nicholson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tommy - Pinball Wizard - The Who\/Elton John (1975 Film)\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H_r_dWenKhk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week in 1969 &#8220;The Who&#8221; released their album Tommy, a rock opera about a deaf, dumb and blind boy who plays a mean pinball. The lavish double concept album introduced a new genre: Rock Opera. The single Pinball Wizard became a classic hit. The album was developed into an acclaimed movie in 1975 starring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[284,285],"class_list":["post-2750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flashback","tag-the-who","tag-tommy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2750"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2753,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions\/2753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.radijohan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}