The making of Pete Townshend’s CLASSIC QUADROPHENIA. Watch composer Pete Townshend, orchestrator Rachel Fuller, singer Alfie Boe and conductor Robert Ziegler discuss Press Release | Biographies | Gallery | Buy Album In 2012 The Who played the album in its entirety on tour. In 1979 it was turned into a film, directed by Franc Roddam (and featuring a young Sting in a key role) and has been performed live by The Who, sometimes with guest performers. Townshend has described the album as the best music he has ever written. The album title comes from the personalities of the four members of The Who, used to represent the four sides of Jimmy. But the freedom he finds turns out to be illusory. The central character of Jimmy is a disaffected youth who hates his parents and lowly job, but finds release from blue-collar drudgery with his fellow Mods, popping pills and riding motor-scooters to weekend concerts by bands like The Who.
Released as a double-album in 1973, The Who’s rock opera QUADROPHENIA is a conceptual work set in the 1960s milieu of the Mod movement during which they began their career in west London.
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