Barry Lyndon voice-over (by actor Michael Hordern), the comments expressed are not Barry's, but those of an omniscient narrator. Kubrick felt that using a first-person narrative would not be useful in a film adaptation: Kubrick made several changes to the plot, including the addition of the final duel. 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
The Who Tour 1975 in the middle of the set, thanks to the success of the film generating more interest in the rock opera; several "Tommy" pieces were played for the first time since either 1970 or 1971. Meanwhile, less and less "Quadrophenia" material appeared in the act as the '75 shows wore on – by the North American tour, only "Drowned" was finding its way occasionally into the set, and even that was eventually dropped. The group would settle into a regular setlist by the end of the year, repeating it almost verbatim throughout 1976. Live material from 1975 has appeared on the