A Way Of Life: Making Quadrophenia - Part 1/4 

I'm 56 and have been a Who fan since I was a teenager. Quadrophenia is a masterpiece ✨👏👌🙌

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.

Phil Daniels and Ray Winston in his few scenes were brilliant

Just getting into Mod through The Jam & The Purple Hearts, this came out & The Mod revival took off. It never leaves you.

I consider this a perfect film. Don’t die before seeing this masterpiece.

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 😂

Thanks for the upload , this was my favorite film when i was a teenager .

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 .

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.

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....

Brilliant album fantastic film

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

ONCE A MOD ALWAYS A MOD

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.”

From the beach of Brighton to the terraces at Stamford Bridge👍

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.

Toyah Wilcox blossomed into a beautiful woman. She's a babe.

it will always be a way of life. got albums cds and the original video

It been a long time i have not seen so quite good film like this one. Art!!!!❤

"Don't larf. I nearly broke me facking neck"

"The Who, the what, the why"... Oh boy 😂

The Jam then this movie changed my life,and like Weller they will bury me a mod.POW!

2:25 I didn't even realise Ken Barlow from Coronation Street directed Quadrophenia. You learn something every day.

Anyone notices how Sting is not in any of the Quadrophenia documentaries made in the last 30 years???? Hmmm.....?

But the quadrophenia album rain over me is my all-time favorite 💯❤️😉

I love Quadrophenia and Tommy both film by THE WHO

GREAT DOCUMENTARY ! WEDNESDAY 3/8/23 MARCH 8, 2023

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!

Great video

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...

Monkey is so gorgeous even today!!!

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

We lived it old Glasgow mod ..film was the best ..

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.

My youth !!!! Xxx

I would have given the part of Jimmy to Norman Wisdom and Steph’s role to Dawn French !

rip mr elphick

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 .

Exactly as it was!!

@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?

I love being a mod

Great days indeed

It's Jim Carver !

"CLean Living under difficuLt circumstances. . ." - Peter Meaden

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

You don't see beachy head when you come over from France you see the white cliffs Dover.🤣🤣

Took a minute to recognize it was Robert Elms narrating!

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.

Oh yeah! 😎

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6:33

ME!!!!

Where have I seen that face before? 😂

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.

Thank God he didn't make into an opera!

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) 😎

That's why it was called Albion

Guy in the denim shirt is very disrespectful. 🔔 end

Ack! A bloke wif' a Trumpet 650 can't outrun a scooter! Humiliating!

Robert Elms... fight like proper mods? Are you joking? The mods were pulverised by any rocker. Townies are wimps. 😉

The first generation who didnt dress like their parents.

Great album. Crap film.

The best film that BRITON has ever made 👍👍👍

*It's got nothing to do with your Vorsprung durch Technik, you know*