Quadrophenia: Can You See the Real Me? Page #8

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and f***ed up individual

and they're each in their own way.

I'm the guy in the sky

Flying high, flashing eyes

No surprise I told lies

I'm the punk in the gutter.

All of those youth movements

are built on false idols.

They're all built on the idea

of loving something

and never meet your idols.

There's that crushing

sense of disappointment.

They're not the people

you think they are.

This was the only time The Who

were in the entire book.

We shot about 4am in the morning

so we wouldn't have any traffic

and it was the Hammersmith Odeon,

that was the idea.

And in the story it's where Jimmy

sees The Who otherwise

they don't intersect in the story.

He's feeling inferior,

his hero's scooter is bust

and these guys have a limo.

I have to be careful not to preach

I can't pretend that I can teach

And yet I've lived your future out

By pounding stages like a clown

And on the dance floor broken glass

And bloody faces slowly pass

The numbered seats in empty rows

It all belongs to me you know.

OK!

There's this idea of The Who,

who had these kind of mod roots,

and they later became a great big

bloated rock band.

The distance between them

being almost '70s rock stars

and the '60s roots of what they were

is played up in this photograph.

You get this image of Jimmy,

the mod, from the 1960s, clearly,

down on one knee and out here's the

band coming out of Hammersmith Odeon

but the band appear to be like

a '70s rock band and the interesting

thing is it's the distance between

him and them, that's the time shift.

This is when the album is recorded,

this is the distance

between these two things.

It's important.

I'm the guy in the sky

Flying high, flashing eyes

No surprise I told lies

I'm the punk in the gutter.

He just happens to pass

his ex-heroes, The Who,

and says to them, "You bunch of...

You f***ing let me down."

That's all it's about.

This one song,

Punk And The Godfather, that was it.

I don't mind

Other guys dancing with my girl

That's fine

I know them all pretty well...

Is it me for a moment?

Records traditionally have tracks

with gaps in between.

What Quadrophenia has

is a soundscape

and the thing it's closest to

is it's a film soundtrack.

So, between the tracks you get

the sound of Jimmy's life,

losing his bike,

losing his dirty job,

living rough on the streets alone.

The sound of the train

in the station, the whistle.

The boiling kettle and a fried egg.

In a sense,

it's using sound as music.

For sea and sand, for example,

I literally walked down a beach

with a stereo mic singing

sea and sand.

Here by the sea and sand.

But Quadrophenia had a sound, it

was one sound from start to finish,

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