It's the incredible cast and their stellar performances that makes the film really shine and stand out. Which is impressive considering how young and inexperienced these actors were.
When spider got a kicking and they all left the club to go look for the rockers, john altmans ( nick cotton ) character leaves with them. Then, next scene, he's back dancing in the club while their looking for the rockers 😂
The double album of the soundtrack was one of the first albums I ever bought. I was born and spent my early childhood in London during the early sixties and from what I can remember of it, this film, made in 1979, captures the look and feel of the place from that time perfectly. I was too young to be involved in the Mods and Rockers thing but I was certainly aware of it, I can remember catching the odd glimpse of them and my grandmother telling me how bad they were after they wrecked a local public garden down the road.
I was 40 when I first watched this but its totally brilliant the music I have listened to for years then I heard about the film and wanted to see it turned out my dad had it on dvd.
Great movie. Although not often touted as such, the song 5:15 from this movie, is for me one of their greatest compositions. Brilliant lyrics, brilliant arrangement and fantastic attitude ('Out of my brain on the...5:15'). Oh, and this movie finally inspired me, not being a Londoner, to go into a pie and mash shop. Fantastic. Get 'em while you still can....
Jimmy doesn't commit suicide at the end - he is killing off his mod image by dumping his prized scooter off beachy head . It is a metaphor for his contempt for the mod culture : he saw The Ace working as a mere bellboy , and watches forlornly as his mod mates go back to living a normal humdrum life . He wishes Brighton happened everyday , just as a child wishes for Xmas everyday . In the Quadrophenia album pictures , Jimmy witnesses The Who outside a theatre , all four members now long haired rockers - anathema to everything he stood for and believed in . His disenchantment is obvious .
Yes, you are spot on. Jimmy's character is much like the protagonist of "Catcher In the Rye." He becomes disillusioned with society and his heroes. This doc starts off with a huge glaring error. The album was about teen angst but it was not about suicide.
Once a mod always a mod smashing film changed a lot of kids lives all we have now is gun and knife crime is went on hundreds of scooter runs and mod dos never seen one bit of trouble from late 70s till now and still a mod
Was a rocker, had the fast bikes , some boys I knew was mods lol .its when different towns or cities that shit happend .but man what a time to be alive
As a hard fast rocker , and the Brighton run , you had to have been thier ...mods chasing us down beach .us scrapping lol , no one got stabbed , fist fights with guys ya went to school with lol mods and rockers looms large in my legend....great time to be young and lived this
The youth movements of the 60's were powered by the access to credit. As industry ramped up and demanded more electrical power there was still very low domestic use outside of the normal working day. As a result the government were persuaded to relax the laws on borrowing. This lead to the wide spread use of HP to furnish homes with more and more electrical appliences. This helped smooth out the electrical grid. A by product was youth using the new rules to get mobile with motorbikes and scooters.
At 2:30 Frank Roddam mentions the idea came about from a young mod throwing himself off the cliff. Jimmy didn't throw himself off though. He only rode the scooter off. Quadrophenia was an amazing film but I always thought the end bit wasn't clear enough. If you only watch it once you could end up thinking Jimmy did throw himself off.
@@workingboat Watched this dozens of times and never noticed that. Nice1. I seem to remember he jumped off a railway bridge in the book hence the train noise in the song.
Yes of course. Jimmy kills the scooter which symbolizes his disenchantment with the MOD lifestyle, which he assumed was as important to everyone else as it was to him. In this instance, he was like the protagonist in Catcher In the Rye.
@@workingboat I know that he is walking away at the beginning of the film but that is because I have seen it a thousand times. Like weekender weekender has said here, he/she never noticed that even after watching it dozens of times. It isn't clear for anybody watching it for the first time because they wouldn't connect the beginning with the end first time.
I remember Paul McCartney talking about the mods, and the rockers back in his youthful days, and when you look at how the Beatles dressed before they became fab, they were definitely rockers with the leather coats, and pants. Slicked back hair, and rowdy behaviors. That is until their manager Epstein made them change their looks to the more tamed mod's attire, suits, and ties for a more respectable image. I bet Lennon wasn't too fond of that move at tall!
The who's quadrophenia album what's my favorite all-time double album because the music and the lyrics spoke to me I was wild😊 I'm crazy I grew up Denise Camden New Jersey I did a lot of fighting in my time cuz I could never show fear and I was tested for that and I got good with my hands I realized I was good so a lot of people like to test that can you see the real name Dr Jennings and who are you definitely touched my heart and soul
At 17 i was into hip hop , dressing rediculously outrageous ,. Spray painting trains and dancing . I was very much a Jimmy charecter . I immersed everything into a caricature assuming that it would last for ever . Pretty much crumbled as he did when iy turned out to be transient .
Damn... I wished at the end he would of gone over the edge with the bike, but they used a real naf dummy and it showed. What an amazing end that would of been lol
Somewhat the inverse of Lifehouse.. Lifhouse: Film gets scrapped, album is great hinting at what the original concept was. Quadrophenia.. album is great, film gets made later, is fantastic, fleshes out the concept hinted at by the album. What's in common is GREAT ALBUM.
@ravenhearst09 - thanks for the great upload! I was a mid-60s mod then a late-60s friend of The Who, so it's a positive double whammy for me! Can you please tell us who directed this fine documentary, and when was it first released?
Liam Gallagher paid £35,000 for Jmmy's Lambretta to stick in his Lverpool branch of pretty greens window heard it's not the original, a gorgeous scooter but 35k for any scooter is mad
Disagree with Robert Sandall music journalist, saying that the Rolling Stones only wrote catchy pop songs. Rubbish, quite a few of their songs were banned because of the subject matter that he said only The Who wrote about.
i'm not english but you certainly do not have to be british to appreciate this movie. basically street gangs no matter what form they take basically come down to one thing and that is that some human beings especially males are hard wired to enjoy violence and so if there's no actual war going on they'll create their own. but yeah equally great album and movie awesome shit.
There has been a lifelong fight between my sister and I. She says Tommy was The Who's best rock opera. I say she is dumber than a box of rocks! Quadrophenia is superior in music, storytelling, and was a better movie. It has a much more real story than Tommy. (but we all know that Who's Next is the best Who album) 😎
i was there back in the day and every fight i witnessed rockers got there arses handed to them on a plate. they tended to be older than the average mod but were always outnumbered those were the days. Rockers weren't the most intelligent of people and tended to pick fights with gangs of mods that grossly outnumbered them [baby boomers] town / country /suburb the result was always the same dozy buggers and by the way i never saw a fight that wasn't started by some loud mouthed prat on a motor bike. Lets bash em there's 10 of us yes but there is 300 of them "DOH"
I'm 56 and have been a Who fan since I was a teenager. Quadrophenia is a masterpiece ✨👏👌🙌
It's the incredible cast and their stellar performances that makes the film really shine and stand out. Which is impressive considering how young and inexperienced these actors were.
Quadrophenia is a masterpiece.
Album... movie... or both?
Moons drumming was the best he did this was the who at their best
When spider got a kicking and they all left the club to go look for the rockers, john altmans ( nick cotton ) character leaves with them. Then, next scene, he's back dancing in the club while their looking for the rockers 😂
I consider this a perfect film. Don’t die before seeing this masterpiece.
Phil Daniels and Ray Winston in his few scenes were brilliant
Old mates from Scum😆
How's your headache Phil 🎱🎱🧦😂
The double album of the soundtrack was one of the first albums I ever bought. I was born and spent my early childhood in London during the early sixties and from what I can remember of it, this film, made in 1979, captures the look and feel of the place from that time perfectly. I was too young to be involved in the Mods and Rockers thing but I was certainly aware of it, I can remember catching the odd glimpse of them and my grandmother telling me how bad they were after they wrecked a local public garden down the road.
Thanks for the upload , this was my favorite film when i was a teenager .
I was 40 when I first watched this but its totally brilliant the music I have listened to for years then I heard about the film and wanted to see it turned out my dad had it on dvd.
Just getting into Mod through The Jam & The Purple Hearts, this came out & The Mod revival took off. It never leaves you.
Sue Faulkner my mate got the bug, he loved Secret Affair
Sue your choice of music will make you happy x
Great movie. Although not often touted as such, the song 5:15 from this movie, is for me one of their greatest compositions. Brilliant lyrics, brilliant arrangement and fantastic attitude ('Out of my brain on the...5:15'). Oh, and this movie finally inspired me, not being a Londoner, to go into a pie and mash shop. Fantastic. Get 'em while you still can....
Jimmy doesn't commit suicide at the end - he is killing off his mod image by dumping his prized scooter off beachy head . It is a metaphor for his contempt for the mod culture : he saw The Ace working as a mere bellboy , and watches forlornly as his mod mates go back to living a normal humdrum life . He wishes Brighton happened everyday , just as a child wishes for Xmas everyday . In the Quadrophenia album pictures , Jimmy witnesses The Who outside a theatre , all four members now long haired rockers - anathema to everything he stood for and believed in . His disenchantment is obvious .
He seems to come to a sort of grudging acceptance
That wasn't his scooter, he stole it from Ace Face. His scooter was already totalled by another incident.
never thought about it that way good insight.
Yes, you are spot on. Jimmy's character is much like the protagonist of "Catcher In the Rye." He becomes disillusioned with society and his heroes.
This doc starts off with a huge glaring error. The album was about teen angst but it was not about suicide.
A bit over-analytical.
Once a mod always a mod smashing film changed a lot of kids lives all we have now is gun and knife crime is went on hundreds of scooter runs and mod dos never seen one bit of trouble from late 70s till now and still a mod
I became a mod about 2 years ago I'm 15 years old. Other people my age don't get it
Give the knife children scooters! #scootersforknifecrimers 😊
Was a rocker, had the fast bikes , some boys I knew was mods lol .its when different towns or cities that shit happend .but man what a time to be alive
Brilliant album fantastic film
It’s actually a rubbish album
It been a long time i have not seen so quite good film like this one. Art!!!!❤
ONCE A MOD ALWAYS A MOD
As a hard fast rocker , and the Brighton run , you had to have been thier ...mods chasing us down beach .us scrapping lol , no one got stabbed , fist fights with guys ya went to school with lol mods and rockers looms large in my legend....great time to be young and lived this
The youth movements of the 60's were powered by the access to credit. As industry ramped up and demanded more electrical power there was still very low domestic use outside of the normal working day. As a result the government were persuaded to relax the laws on borrowing. This lead to the wide spread use of HP to furnish homes with more and more electrical appliences. This helped smooth out the electrical grid. A by product was youth using the new rules to get mobile with motorbikes and scooters.
it will always be a way of life. got albums cds and the original video
I am 75 now ...I was a rocker ,, jeans and leather , fast bikes , the mods and rockers era looms large in my legend lol
Simply the best
"Creativity is intelligence having fun.”
Toyah Wilcox blossomed into a beautiful woman. She's a babe.
I'm a mod and I'm 1*
(Looking for the 'like' button)
Yeah
"Don't larf. I nearly broke me facking neck"
"The Who, the what, the why"... Oh boy 😂
At 2:30 Frank Roddam mentions the idea came about from a young mod throwing himself off the cliff. Jimmy didn't throw himself off though. He only rode the scooter off. Quadrophenia was an amazing film but I always thought the end bit wasn't clear enough. If you only watch it once you could end up thinking Jimmy did throw himself off.
The clue is at the beginning of the film, where Jimmy is walking away
@@workingboat Watched this dozens of times and never noticed that. Nice1. I seem to remember he jumped off a railway bridge in the book hence the train noise in the song.
Yes of course. Jimmy kills the scooter which symbolizes his disenchantment with the MOD lifestyle, which he assumed was as important to everyone else as it was to him.
In this instance, he was like the protagonist in Catcher In the Rye.
@@workingboat I know that he is walking away at the beginning of the film but that is because I have seen it a thousand times. Like weekender weekender has said here, he/she never noticed that even after watching it dozens of times. It isn't clear for anybody watching it for the first time because they wouldn't connect the beginning with the end first time.
Yeah I thought he killed himself. The whole film was building to it. I never noticed the first scene with Jimmy walking away
As a yank i could never be a mod… but as a kid in ‘73 i could sure be Jimmy.
GREAT DOCUMENTARY ! WEDNESDAY 3/8/23 MARCH 8, 2023
Thank you for documenting your time, date and journeys. I hope that our paths meet again.
From the beach of Brighton to the terraces at Stamford Bridge👍
Yeah being the punchbags of London 😂👍
The Jam then this movie changed my life,and like Weller they will bury me a mod.POW!
We are the fucking mods
Paul ‘red wedge’ Weller...a complete mean spirited knob.
Discord mods rise up
Anyone notices how Sting is not in any of the Quadrophenia documentaries made in the last 30 years???? Hmmm.....?
He probably feels too important. Always thought he was miscast in this anyway.
Never thought he really suited the film !!
That’s because he now works for a terrorist organisation in Libya.
Most probably thinks his 💩don’t smell
I love Quadrophenia and Tommy both film by THE WHO
I remember Paul McCartney talking about the mods, and the rockers back in his youthful
days, and when you look at how the Beatles dressed before they became fab, they were
definitely rockers with the leather coats, and pants. Slicked back hair, and rowdy
behaviors. That is until their manager Epstein made them change their looks to the more
tamed mod's attire, suits, and ties for a more respectable image. I bet Lennon wasn't too
fond of that move at tall!
The Dukes of Hamburg
@@michaelpanagiotis7109 The Dukes of Humbug.
The who's quadrophenia album what's my favorite all-time double album because the music and the lyrics spoke to me I was wild😊 I'm crazy I grew up Denise Camden New Jersey I did a lot of fighting in my time cuz I could never show fear and I was tested for that and I got good with my hands I realized I was good so a lot of people like to test that can you see the real name Dr Jennings and who are you definitely touched my heart and soul
We have known the days...
At 17 i was into hip hop , dressing rediculously outrageous ,. Spray painting trains and dancing . I was very much a Jimmy charecter . I immersed everything into a caricature assuming that it would last for ever .
Pretty much crumbled as he did when iy turned out to be transient .
Got to hate when I used to dress rediculously
Damn... I wished at the end he would of gone over the edge with the bike, but they used a real naf dummy and it showed. What an amazing end that would of been lol
There was no dummy. You can see Jimmy still on the cliff behind the scooter as it goes over. Only the scooter goes over the edge.
Great video
Somewhat the inverse of Lifehouse.. Lifhouse: Film gets scrapped, album is great hinting at what the original concept was. Quadrophenia.. album is great, film gets made later, is fantastic, fleshes out the concept hinted at by the album. What's in common is GREAT ALBUM.
Exactly as it was!!
Monkey is so gorgeous even today!!!
What
But the quadrophenia album rain over me is my all-time favorite 💯❤️😉
Rain oer me 👍
My youth !!!! Xxx
You don't see beachy head when you come over from France you see the white cliffs Dover.🤣🤣
Beachy head is just on the western edge of Eastbourne I've been many times its beautiful.
rip mr elphick
I love being a mod
I do not. Why must people install me on dodgy websites
Great days indeed
@ravenhearst09 - thanks for the great upload! I was a mid-60s mod then a late-60s friend of The Who, so it's a positive double whammy for me! Can you please tell us who directed this fine documentary, and when was it first released?
"CLean Living under difficuLt circumstances. . ." - Peter Meaden
2:25 I didn't even realise Ken Barlow from Coronation Street directed Quadrophenia. You learn something every day.
No he didn't frank roddam did.
Took a minute to recognize it was Robert Elms narrating!
That’s because it’s not him!
@@josh_kngt Here's a crazy idea: how about checking your facts before you correct people
It's Jim Carver !
Liam Gallagher paid £35,000 for Jmmy's Lambretta to stick in his Lverpool branch of pretty greens window heard it's not the original, a gorgeous scooter but 35k for any scooter is mad
I paid £35,000 for a German dwarf. Waste of money, I didn’t realise I had to feed him.
I was a motor cycle rider , raced on tracks etc I remember , all of a sudden I was a rocker .lol got chased down the beach by mods lol
I would have given the part of Jimmy to Norman Wisdom and Steph’s role to Dawn French !
Eeeew. What a horrible image dawn French as steph or monkey
Mr Grimsdale! Gerrof my scooter!
Oh yeah! 😎
👍🏻
Disagree with Robert Sandall music journalist, saying that the Rolling Stones only wrote catchy pop songs. Rubbish, quite a few of their songs were banned because of the subject matter that he said only The Who wrote about.
6:33
Where have I seen that face before? 😂
Maybe it was an apparition in your porridge.
Thank God he didn't make into an opera!
why not?
ME!!!!
i'm not english but you certainly do not have to be british to appreciate this movie. basically street gangs no matter what form they take basically come down to one thing and that is that some human beings especially males are hard wired to enjoy violence and so if there's no actual war going on they'll create their own.
but yeah equally great album and movie awesome shit.
We lived it old Glasgow mod ..film was the best ..
The best film that BRITON has ever made 👍👍👍
That's why it was called Albion
There has been a lifelong fight between my sister and I. She says Tommy was The Who's best rock opera. I say she is dumber than a box of rocks! Quadrophenia is superior in music, storytelling, and was a better movie. It has a much more real story than Tommy. (but we all know that Who's Next is the best Who album) 😎
Ack! A bloke wif' a Trumpet 650 can't outrun a scooter! Humiliating!
How do you type with an accent this is amazing
The first generation who didnt dress like their parents.
The ted movement send there regards
True. Post War teens.@@SteveR-w1q
Guy in the denim shirt is very disrespectful. 🔔 end
Robert Elms... fight like proper mods? Are you joking? The mods were pulverised by any rocker. Townies are wimps. 😉
i was there back in the day and every fight i witnessed rockers got there arses handed to them on a plate. they tended to be older than the average mod but were always outnumbered those were the days. Rockers weren't the most intelligent of people and tended to pick fights with gangs of mods that grossly outnumbered them [baby boomers] town / country /suburb the result was always the same dozy buggers and by the way i never saw a fight that wasn't started by some loud mouthed prat on a motor bike. Lets bash em there's 10 of us yes but there is 300 of them "DOH"
Great album. Crap film.