Smash the Mirror

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"Smash the Mirror"
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Song by The Who
From the album Tommy
Album released 23 May 1969
Recorded September 19 1968 to March 7, 1969
Genre Rock
Song Length 1:35
Record label Polydor
Producer Kit Lambert
Tommy Album Listing
Tommy, Can You Hear Me? Smash the Mirror Sensation


"Smash the Mirror" is a song written by Pete Townshend of The Who. It appears as the seventeenth track on the group's first rock opera, Tommy (1969). After the events in Tommy, Can You Hear Me?, Tommy is still captivated by the mirror. Eventually, his frusturated mother smashes the mirror (The mirror can clearly be heard being broken in the song). The breaking of the mirror cures Tommy which leads into the song "Sensation"