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In addition to describing a personality/band member, the four comments refer to the four theme songs that portray Jimmy's personalities in the opera: "Helpless Dancer", "Doctor Jimmy", "Bell Boy", and "Love Reign O'er Me". The four musical themes are mixed together in the penultimate track on the recording, an elaborate instrumental piece called "The Rock". (The intermixing requires an unusual superposition of music in 3/4 time on top of music in 4/4 time, with the measures of both parts being the same length in time.)
The story covers about two days of the life of a certain Jimmy, a participant in the early 1960s Mod lifestyle in EnglandEngland is the largest, the most populous, and the most densely populated of the four " Home Nations" which make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK). Occupying the south-eastern portion of the island of Great Britain, England. "The story is set on a rock!" announced the composer, Peter Townshend, at one live performance. That remark seems to indicate that the opera represents Jimmy's looking back at the events of the previous day or two that led him into the gloomy situation where he finds himself at the end of the story. The narrative is difficult to derive from the lyrics, but is given along with Jimmy's commentary on various matters in a booklet included with the album.
To the extent that Quadrophenia can be said to tell a story at all, it tells it in the first person. The first half of the opera treats us to the frustrations and insecurities that govern Jimmy's life, including brief glimpses of his home life, his job, his psychoanalyst, and his unfruitful attempts to have a social life. Halfway through the opera he sings "I've Had Enough", finds himself kicked out of his home when his parents find his dope, gets pilled up and takes a train ride to the coast, steals a boat and takes it out to a barren rock protruding from the sea, and crashes psychologically. With nothing left to live for he finds redemption in the pouring rainRain is a form of precipitation, as are snow, sleet, hail, and dew. Rain forms when separate drops of water fall to the Earth's surface from clouds. Not all rain reaches the surface, however; some evaporates while falling through dry air, a type of precip (a manifestation of Townshend's spiritual fixation on water).
Quadrophenia was originally released as a two- LPThe vinyl record is a type of gramophone record, most popular from the 1950s to the 1990s, that was most commonly used for mass-produced recordings of music. A vinyl gramophone or phonograph record consists of a disc of polyvinyl chloride plastic, engrave set with a butterfly jacket and a thick booklet containing lyricA Lyric (from the Greek) is a song sung with a lyre. Now, it is commonly used to mean a song of no defined length or structure. A lyric poem is one that expresses a subjective, personal point of view. I would be the Lyric Ever on the lip, Rather than thes, a text version of the story, and photographA photograph (often just called a photo is an image (or a representation of that on e. paper) created by collecting and focusing electromagnetic radiation. The most common photographs are those created of visible wavelengths, producing permanent records os illustrating the tale. MCAThe Music Corporation of America commonly known as MCA is a United States based corporation in the music business. MCA publishes music, books music acts, and runs a record label. MCA was founded as a music booking agency based in Chicago in 1924 by Jules re-released it as a two- CDCD re-directs here; see Cd for other meanings of CD . A compact disc (or CD is an optical disc used for storing digital data. It was originally invented for digital audio and is also used as a data storage device, a CD-ROM. CD-ROM reading devices are a st set in 1985 with the lyrics and text story line on a thin fold-up sheet but none of the photographs. The remastered CDs of 1996 include the full original booklet in miniature.
In the liner notes to the remastered Odds and Sods Townshend reveals that Quadrophenia evolved from an idea for a self-indulgent autobiography of the band. Two of the opera's tracks date from 1972, a year that also produced The Who's self-centered singles "Join Together" and "Long Live Rock" (the latter not actually released until 1974). However, by the time Quadrophenia was released the band's role in the story was only symbolic, via Jimmy's four personalities. (The text story in the liner notes also suggests that Jimmy knew one of the band members before they were stars, and the band member callously shrugs him off when he bumps into the band at the hotel where he works as a bell boy.)
The lyrics to the song "The Punk and the Godfather" leave the impression that Townshend was aware of a musical rebellion called punk as early as 1973, with a dual interpretation of Townshend as the punk and his record company's executives as the godfather and/or younger musicians working in new styles as the punks and Townshend as the godfather.
Quadrophenia was later made into a movie, with several additional songs done by Peter Townshend for the soundtrack.
In 2003, the TV network VH1 named Quadrophenia the 86th greatest album of all time.
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