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17. You're right.

Reply to sl8 (Reply #16)

Tue Dec 19, 2017, 12:25 PM

Dec 2017

I never really liked it, and I detested the movie.

When I think of a rock opera nowadays, first thing that comes to my mind is "Tommy."

(And the movie made based on that one sucked too.)

I guess I'm just getting old and cranky.

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