Almost Famous:"Listen to TOMMY with a candle burning"?

See the film Tommy and check wikipedia. Tommy is an album about a downtrodden and under appreciated member of society. The protagonist 'inteprets physical sensations as music.' The album is a rock opera which doesn't speak of the future much - it lives in the present. It's partially about 'enlightenment' so the protagonist in Almost Famous is inspired and later chooses to become a rock journalist.