Tommy Chong celebrates his birthday today (May 24), and in the genre of stoner films, he and Cheech Marin are two of its biggest stars (if not the biggest) and the most influential.
The popularity of the rock opera has ebbed and flowed throughout the decades since the release of The Who's Tommy, which came out fifty years ago today (May 23), but this take on the concept album has undoubtedly yielded some of rock's most beloved works
The Who’s landmark album Tommy was released 50 years ago today (May 23), and while the album wasn’t technically the first “rock opera,” it certainly helped popularize the term and the concept.
Let's cut to the chase: With the release of the Elton John film Rocketman, there are undoubtedly going to be a lot of comparisons between this film and the uber-successful Freddie Mercury/Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody. That's unavoidable since two films about two British music icons are being released less than a year apart. What's also unavoidable is…
