"Acid Queen" is a song written by Pete Townshend and is the ninth song on The Who's rock opera Tommy. The song tells the attempts of Tommy's parents to try and cure him. They leave him with a gypsy, a self-proclaimed "Acid Queen". She feeds Tommy various hallucinogenic drugs.
It is often grouped with the album's next track, "Underture", a lengthy instrumental which deals with Tommy's hallucinations and his experience with acid.
Several notable si...
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"Acid Queen" is a song written by Pete Townshend and is the ninth song on The Who's rock opera Tommy. The song tells the attempts of Tommy's parents to try and cure him. They leave him with a gypsy, a self-proclaimed "Acid Queen". She feeds Tommy various hallucinogenic drugs.
It is often grouped with the album's next track, "Underture", a lengthy instrumental which deals with Tommy's hallucinations and his experience with acid.
Several notable singers have performed the song including Merry Clayton, Patti LaBelle, Bette Midler and Tina Turner.
Pete Townshend used Tommy's blindness to represent our "...blindness to reality." The Acid Queen most likely represented drug abuse, a popular theme of common conversation in the late 1960s. The Acid Queen was created to be the symbol for drugs and drug abuse because she attempts to use drugs to cure Tommy's ailments: deafness, muteness and blindness.
"Acid Queen" is the third single released from the Tina Turner album Acid Queen, following ...
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