Barry Lyndon Barry Lyndon Barry Lyndon is a 1975 British-American period drama film by Stanley Kubrick, based on the 1844 novel "The Luck of Barry Lyndon" by William Makepeace Thackeray. It stars Ryan O'Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Leonard Rossiter and Hardy Krüger. The film recounts the early exploits and later unraveling of a fictional 18th-century Irish rogue and opportunist who marries a rich widow to climb the social ladder and assume her late husband's aristocratic position. Kubrick began production on Barry Lyndon, after his 1971 film, A Clockwork Orange. Kubrick had originally intended to direct a biopic on Napoleon, but lost
The Who Tour 1975 the Hammersmith Odeon in London. The band’s 1975/76 American part of the tour began in Houston to a crowd of 18,000 at The Summit Arena, and was supported by Toots and the Maytals. Although "The Who By Numbers" had just been released, group only played "Squeeze Box", "Dreaming from the Waist", and a few performances of "However Much I Booze" in 1975 ("Slip Kid" would also be played a few times in 1976). Despite being under the guise of a tour for their latest album, 1975–76 was more of a ""Tommy" revisited" period, with a mini-set of "Tommy" material featured