Which Tina Turner character appears in the 1975 film Tommy?

Which Tina Turner character appears in the 1975 film Tommy? Tina Turner plays the Acid Queen. Her performance is one of the film’s most flamboyant episodes, turning the album’s mysterious drug-dealer character into a striking visual and musical set piece.

Tommy is Ken Russell’s 1975 film adaptation of The Who’s 1969 rock opera. In the story, Tommy’s parents seek increasingly desperate ways to bring him out of his withdrawn, psychosomatic state. The Acid Queen is presented as an erratic woman who offers a hallucinatory treatment involving prophetic LSD, but her intervention does not cure him.

The role is sometimes confused with the film’s Preacher, Specialist or other eccentric figures, all of whom appear in Tommy’s parade of would-be healers. Turner’s sequence is especially memorable because it combines her powerful singing and stage presence with Russell’s psychedelic visual style. Mick Jagger was reportedly considered for the part before it went to Turner.