Quadrophenia: Can You See the Real Me? Page #5

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and were admiring their clothes

and saying, "Look at the cut on their

clothes." Stuff that we didn't have.

I don't like red on you anyway.

From all these different elements

emerged this sort of movement

with its strict rules that were

never written down

but they seemed to understand them.

That's a very mod neck.

That rollneck's all right,

a suede front, it's different.

That's true, yeah. This is great,

I like this. It's fabulous.

If I left a deposit for that, John,

can I come back next week?

Yeah, certainly. Is that OK?

That's not yours, my love.

If you saw a teddy boy,

you'd know he was a teddy boy

but if you saw a mod, your mods could

work in an advertising agency,

no-one would know they were mods.

They just looked like a neat kid.

But to other mods,

they gave all the signals.

Maybe a slightly effeminate kid

and that's where

I thought the real courage came.

They used to do their own sewing

and stuff.

These great big guys would say,

"I'll take in those trousers!"

Roger made drainpipes

and put the zips in himself!

He put zips in drainpipes!

It was perfect because for the first

time in generations

you dressed as you wanted to

and at work you probably were

a shipping clerk or a filing clerk.

You were management material.

And you got, "Oh, he's a very tidy

young man,

"he's going up the ladder, mate."

Mods had real strict taste rules

and it was difficult to know

what was in, and what was out.

I remember people talking

about the way to stand outside

the Scene Club, you had to stand

with your hand in your pocket...

All these sort of ways

to maintain your cool.

My hair was a disaster. I hated it.

When I looked in the mirror,

I saw somebody like Art Garfunkel.

Roger had exactly the same problem.

He was constantly

straightening his hair. Dippity-do.

Dippity-do. He found this American

gel that would straighten your hair

long enough to get through a gig.

And I think the main driving force

then was fashion.

But then it became the music

and the other things.

And the other thing is you've to put

it in context of the time,

it was like people identifying

with this new, modern, clean world.

This is Cut My Hair, it's like the

first proper song on the album.

The album should have started

with Cut My Hair because

that's where the story starts.

On Cut My Hair you've got a...

This piano part, very nursery,

gentle piano.

Against which you get the story

of the boy complaining about why

he has to f*** around

with his hair basically.

It's interesting because what

it's about is a mixture of that

refrain when we were young

and the hair was long which was,

"Get your hair cut!"

And suddenly all of that being

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