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...great Don Juans, that remains fixed in our collective memory: a slim, strikingly handsome six-footer with a flowing mane of shoulder-length hair, a piano conjurer able to summon near orchestral effects and rouse audiences to such frenzied emotional states that the poet Heinrich Heine coined the term "Lisztomania." "I think I laughed--laughed like an idiot" is how Edvard Grieg described his ecstatic reaction to Liszt's playing. George Eliot's recorded impressions of Liszt come very close to swooning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: THE BOOK OF LISZTS | 9/2/1996 | See Source »

...never been one to do anything halfway. Propelled by a flamboyant visual imagination, the British director, 54, has shocked audiences with his horrific The Devils, astounded them with his psychedelic imagery for the rock opera Tommy and scandalized them with his racy, irreverent looks at mighty composers, such as Lisztomania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Rousing the Rake in Florence | 6/7/1982 | See Source »

...Lisztomania, 2 and 7 p.m.; and W oodstock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge | 12/11/1975 | See Source »

Daltrey also has two solo record albums to his credit-the second was 18 on the charts-an impending concert tour with The Who and the starring role in Lisztomania...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rock Bottom | 10/20/1975 | See Source »

Iron Maiden. Daltrey's way has twice coincided with the tortuous path of Russell, whose wide-screen fantasies appear excessive even against the standards of the rock world. In Tommy, Daltrey was imprisoned in an Iron Maiden constructed out of hypodermic needles. Lisztomania begins with Roger frenetically kissing the breasts of the Countess Marie in time to an amuck metronome, a scene that the star remembers vividly. "It was the first day on the set, and no one knew anybody else. Ken yelled, 'O.K., Roger, take off your clothes, get in bed and have an orgasm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rock Bottom | 10/20/1975 | See Source »

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