Acknowledgments
Introduction: "I want nothing to do with it"
1. The Plot
2. "California, Here I Come"
3. Historical Background: "It's a boy, Mr. Townshend"
4. 1967: Toward the Rock Opera
5. 1967: Finding Baba
6. Making Tommy
7. The Album: Childhood, Cure, Fame
8. Tommy Lives
9. Tommy Reborn
Conclusion: To the Lifehouse
Postscript: What Happened to Pete
Notes
Index

Dewar MacLeod is Professor of History at the William Paterson University of New Jersey. He is the author of Making the Scene in the Garden State: Popular Music in New Jersey from Edison to Springsteen and Beyond and Kids of the Black Hole: Punk Rock in Postsuburban California.