Lisztomania

(Ken Russell thought so, too: his gleefully anachronistic, over-the-top version of the composer in Lisztomania [warning: NSFW backstage toplessness — concert starts at 4: 28 mark] owes as much to Liberace as it does to psychedelic-rock excess.)

Archive 2007-05-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

(Ken Russell thought so, too: his gleefully anachronistic, over-the-top version of the composer in Lisztomania [warning: NSFW backstage toplessness — concert starts at 4: 28 mark] owes as much to Liberace as it does to psychedelic-rock excess.)

Homage to Walter Busterkeys Matthew Guerrieri 2007

After kicking off with the quirkily titled "Lisztomania" - yes, that's Liszt as in Franz Liszt, the Hungarian composer and piano prodigy - Phoenix's set rifled through a number of tracks off their current album, punctuated by older songs.

Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines 2010

It was a phenomenon the great German poet Heinrich Heine dubbed "Lisztomania."

NPR Topics: News 2011

It's been a good year: their relentlessly catchy Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (V2) - whisked into the public ear this year atop Cadillacs via ad-ready singles like "1901" and "Lisztomania" - is about to cause some year-end listomania of its own.

Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com 2009

It's been a good year: their relentlessly catchy Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (V2) - whisked into the public ear this year atop Cadillacs via ad-ready singles like "1901" and "Lisztomania" - is about to cause some year-end listomania of its own.

Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com 2009

Now it's astounding Rolling Stone, who've picked up on the fact that her recent YouTube mashup of the band Phoenix's song "Lisztomania" meshes perfectly with clips from 80's brat pack movies.

Boing Boing 2009

Elsewhere, Ken Russell's "Lisztomania" (1975) imagines Franz Liszt (played by the Who's Roger Daltrey) as a rock star, with wild fantasy sequences, phallic mania, and a Rick Wakeman sound track bustling with keyboard flourishes.

Touching Lives (but Not the Hair) 2010

(Soundbite of song, "Lisztomania") PHOENIX: (Singing) Lisztomania, (unintelligible) SIMON: Is the Liszt of whom you were singing the composer or the Roger Daltry/Ringo Starr film?

Phoenix: Infectious French Pop 2009

(Soundbite of song, "Lisztomania") PHOENIX: (Singing) From a mess to the masses, Lisztomania, think less to see it grow, like a riot, like a riot, oh, not easily offended, no one to let it go, from a mess to the masses.

Phoenix: Infectious French Pop 2009

I have sent Mathilde to the finest schools back East and even in Europe in the hopes of curing her of her Lisztomania, that intense fixation on Hungarian composer Franz Liszt that leads her to ignore the niceties of what rights and courtesies any guest under our roof might expect from the family.

Please Excuse My Eldest Daughter, Mathilde Daniel Lavery 2021