Books

February, 1971

What the Paramount Theater meant to an earlier generation of bobby-soxers conveys just a rough idea of how thousands of fringed and tie-dyed pilgrims of pop feel about Manhattan's Fillmore East. Fillmore marks the spot where The Who presented their dazzling rock opera, Tommy, long before the Woodstock Nation joined the tuxedo-and-tiara set to cheer the work in a historic one-night stand at the new Metropolitan Opera. As an emotional outlet for New York under-30s who live beyond earshot of Fillmo...