Quadrophenia: Can You See the Real Me? Page #3

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the middle of the stream,

you've come right into the middle

of the ride,

come right into the middle of

a rush, and that is brilliant.

Can you see the real me, mother?

Can you see the real me,

me, me, me, me,

me, me, me, me, me m-m-me... #

1, 2, 3, 4...

Pete decided that as part

of the album, he'd have this lavish,

very generous big photo book to

illustrate the story and also,

the other thing is I think he

thought it would help explain

the story, particularly to the

Americans who didn't understand it.

Ethan Russell's photos

put you in that place.

As an American,

you were able to understand

because you were able to see it,

you were able to see his room,

you saw the life and it told you

the story better than a movie,

better than a video. It's all there.

The first cover I did for The Who

was the album Who's Next, here.

I was back in the United States.

I got a call from Pete.

He was pretty stressed already

because he'd been

working on this forever

and you could feel this tremendous

energy of him sort of wanting to

birth this thing, you know.

So he played me the material

and he told me the story.

And we went out to try

and sort of build that world.

We're here in Battersea in

the Patmore Estate.

My sister Maxine and I used to

live across the road here,

in this block of flats here.

Our foster sister Jane used to

live in this block of flats here

and the three of us

used to hang out,

generally around on that

corner block there.

Along here,

which used to be a church hall,

became Ramport Studios

which was owned by The Who,

back in the early '70s.

This is myself here. I would have

been just coming up to 15.

That was an original mod outfit.

I had my hair cut very short

and cropped and black eyeliner,

which you can't see through

the black and white picture.

That's me.

And I've got on a pencil skirt,

a pinstripe pencil skirt,

Hush Puppy shoes

and a navy blue twinset,

little jumper underneath,

a cardigan and like Julie,

my hair cut very short,

mod-style haircut.

The girls came up,

too young to go in the pub

but they knew that I was

looking for someone to play Jimmy.

Chad was one of the local guys

that lived near the pub.

We thought he had the look for

the main character of Quadrophenia

so we introduced him to Georgiana.

I saw the attitude.

I saw the class and the attitude

and the sort of, you know..

His wheels were spinning a bit,

you know.

And he was the real thing. He had

love-hate tattooed on his hands.

Pretty early on in life for that,

you know.

He was often in bed.

They would have to go and get him

up at the flats, I remember that.

Because he'd had too much to drink,

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