“Tommy Can You Hear Me?” by The Who

"Tommy Can You Hear Me?" is part of Tommy, the Who's fourth album, a double-length rock opera released in May 1969, and like nearly all of it, it's a Pete Townshend song. Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle and Townshend share the lead vocal, three voices calling out to the title character.

Kit Lambert produced, Chris Stamp was executive producer and Damon Lyon-Shaw engineered, during sessions that began in September 1968 and dragged on for six months while the material was arranged and re-cut in the studio. The opera follows Tommy Walker on his path to becoming a spiritual leader, an idea Townshend took from the teachings of Meher Baba, and the band carried it on the road through 1969 and 1970, from Woodstock to the Metropolitan Opera House.

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