Quadrophenia: The Reunion 

As a teenager in Great Neck, New York, in the '80s, Quadrophenia "influenced" me greatly. Yes, some of us Americans got it!

Quadrophenia will always be a special film... As culture films go, this has to be the best one ever made!! And the thing about Jimmy is he was an everyday man, a normal chap of that time! That's how we can relate to him! 👍🏻😎💯

I first seen this movie when I was 17 and it just blew my mind, had a bit more respect for my dad who was an original mod in the 60s! Great times

This film is timeless. Saw it as a teen in the early ‘80’s. Everything in it rang true to me then, as it does to my kids, today. All the best.👍🏾🇬🇧

First saw the film in my 30’s and it was like opening a door and going back to my teens . Did all the clubs , did all the riots , shopped in carnaby street at John stephens before it became a tourist trap .. mods a way of life … never forgotten

As an American Who fan I always loved this movie, even though I didn't understand it at first... I called it the British "American Graffiti". The movie "Tommy" was hard to watch but "Quadrophenia" was great...

I had the pleasure of seeing Quandrophenia in an old time movie theatre back in the early ‘80s . Incredible film.

Probably the greatest drumming ever laid down on any album

It wasn't my generation but I saw it as an older teen when involved in the rave scene (1990-95). it made me aware of youth culture and made me appreciate being part of what was arguably the last huge youth movement.

I bought the album first. The first thing i bought with my first pay.. Love the Who. Films often don't live up to the Original but this was epic!

A truly great British classic.... A cult film and I always felt we won!!

This is so good, and the film is a classic.

I bought the VHS video on my day off work......loved it

I´m 46 now...from Argentina....LOVE THIS MOVIE AND THE WHO!!

I have it on DVD and have watched it many times….timeless!

You can lose yourself in this for hours with a decent audio setup. A masterpiece.

A big thumbs up to a brilliant film

I was 15 when i saw this on tv... and then went out to buy it on vhs tape... would have been around 1992,... so they are right, it spoke to me and was great to get a feel of those groups from a standing beside them perspective.

I have got to admit I would have loved to have seen Jonny Rotten on that scooter as Jimmy, probably the only other person that would have pulled it off

The main character Jimmy picked for this movie was spot on - my late friend god bless him introduced me to it in 1984 what a classic good times - looking forward to the sequel I hope Jimmy is in it and some of the original cast

TOYAH ,,STILL SO GORGEOUS

I remember a couple of these geezers staying at the Park Lane Hotel in NY for the premier.

Best Film EVER!

Saw this film 3 times love it so much❤

great film,shame some of the cast is missing in this reunion

Tommy was brilliant and the 70s were exciting times.Quadrophenia and Easy rider were great films many of us loved.

The theme of Quadrophenia is universal. ie. The Teenage experience / Teenage Angst & trying to find out where you fit in etc...... And the storyline & plot as well as the acting are great but where it fails to appeal to a worldwide audience is in it's delivery & the very parochial and regional nature of the english mod scene & cockney culture. Personally I love it as I'm a bit of an Anglophile but I can also understand how a lot of the world just don't 'get it'

The very best music/song to open a movie in history!! Can you see the real me is maybe my favourite ..the one concert I saw they opened with it and I was just memorised..Loved the way it was set in suburban London..will never age..great actors..Great British movie

1964. Petticoat Lane on a Sunday, in Ravels looking for shoes that nobody else had, driving shoes were in at the time. Carnaby St for Mates, John Stephen's, Take 6. "I was Kitchener's Valet" in Portabello Rd. I was a hairdresser at Vidal Sassoon in 68. 1967 Saw The Who and Jimi Hendrix at the Saville Theatre on Shaftsbury Ave, also the The Who, The Move and Pink Floyd at the Roundhouse Camden on New Years Eve 1966. Great memories. I lived in Brighton while the film was being made, i think it was Marcaris ice cream parlour on the corner of West St that got trashed. Where Phil and Leslie shagged became a shrine. 😂

Quadrophenia was a huge impact in the uk it started the Mod revival i was one of them.

Seeing Ray that young is great.

A sequel would be so lovely

I saw this as a teenager in the early 80s at our local community centre, half the room were Mods and the other half were Skinheads..such an atmosphere. Watched it at least once a year since.

I'll never forget seeing Quadrophenia as the midnight movie at the UC Theater in Berkeley in '82...all the scooters lined up at the curb out front and people shoutin' at the screen when Jimmy was havin' a wank! Hilarious! As a teen back then, it was just a great time. Like they mentioned, young American teens in the early '80's came out of the woodwork for movies like this AND Dance Craze, and drove the popularity to help make it big for some time..then, after 9/11 the world took a giant shit and you'll never see stuff like this again

It would be nice to see all of the cast in a play, a meet up of the characters, how their lives turned out, set in current times. How successful were they , or not as the case maybe. How their ideals changed, how their thoughts on life changed and so on. A great film, who would've thought that it would've become such a popular, cultural icon of a film?

Love this film 🎥great memories ❤

Don't make a fricking sequel.

A way of life, I loved it! 😀😀

I saw this when it came out at the pictures i was 17 , i thought it was brilliant i wasn't a mod or even into that musical at the time , brilliant musical arrangement , i have the dvd which i watch from time to time with my son sometimes.

A sequel to Quadrophenia would be pretty damn epic. I don’t know if it stand up to the original it would have to be way different.

A brilliant film long live mods from an old mod 🤩😊😎🤗❤🎉

Have a framed poster of the movie side in my living room. One of my all time favorites. In the eighties I strode the line between rocker and mod. Loved ALL the music, but preferred to dress smart. Rockers had a better attitude though.

First time I saw it, was in English class 1985....we were leaving school soon and had no work to do, so our teacher showed us a video of the movie.

Like all great films and great art, it's an authentic expression of some facet of the universal human condition. And the fact that this film, or this kind of film, would not be made now highlights the shallow, vacuousness of the popular arts today.

Brilliant Movie.

We loved it in Chicago

Brilliant we are the mods

Recorded it on vhs,when it was premiered on British tv. Not sure if I was in my teens but everyone around me watched it,and then watched it with more little fuckers. It defo made a difference to about 25/30 kids in 88/89. However it was my recording prowess with steath after my parents had either gone to bed or stopped paying attention that introduced a lot of late eighties kids to some naughty movies.on the list..clockwork Orange, the thing,hellraisers, porkies, nightmare on elm st. I was naughty free blockbuster for a year or so....I got paid in beer,whiskey and chips n gravy.

Pete Townshend probably taught more Gen X American males about English culture than anyone else.

I would of definitely been a mod all those years ago.

So glad John Lydon didnt do the main character.A Sex Pistols punk rocker as an actor playing the part of a mod.Dont know why he was even comtemplating it.

Greatest film of a generation Mods mods mods 😎

so many people didn't know what a mod is... essentially as Pete Meaden once described mod-ism as an aphorism for clean living under difficult circumstances... re-watching the film with this in mind makes much more sense

13:34 Let Mark speak Phil !! It's the first time he has opened his mouth.

First time i saw it was in a little loft theatre in Tucson. There were a bunch of ppl there in mod gear with scooters! This was like 82 or so. Of course there's me, dressed up in their mid 70s look, totally outta place! Crazy days And while jumping off the cliffs of Dover made for a more exciting ending, i prefer how the story ends written in the album. Stuck out on the rock

When I first saw Quadrophenia in January of 1980, Punk Rock was everywhere. I thought that Philip Davis (Chalky) was Topper Headen of The Clash. That Mark Wingett was Joe Strummer of The Clash and that Ray Winstone was Steve Jones of The Sex Pistols.

Wow. Give us a sequel to Quadrophenia right fuckin' now....

Did Bill Curbishley ever make / produce the sequel. I have mates if your British don’t laugh in Scunthorpe North Lincolnshire. I met them summer of 1985 coming out of a strip club here in San Diego when I was 21. I first visited them two years later summer of 87. I know that Quadrophenia kicked off a whole new scooter craze in Great Britain. Scunthorpe had two scooter clubs::Pathfinders and Roadrunners. They would journey up to Scarborough on weekends where after a day on the piss they would brawl with other scooter clubs. And the local police would politely ask them to leave!!!! We journeyed up to Scarborough July 11 1987 I still remember the day. The only thing that kept my mates from Sunny Scunny and some lads from Huddersfield from fighting I got up on the pool table and sang the American National Anthem and followed it up with a few choruses of Waltzing Matilda. Broke up everybody up Bar Staff the very Nervous owner and all the patrons. I still listen to Quadrophenia every god damn day!!!!!

Brilliant Movie. C"mon the Rockers.

Would love a sequel with a more adult Jimmy in the world of punk rockers and Margaret Thatcher - a meta movie of sorts setting it in the time the original came out.

It is the single most influencial film of all time. Period. Keep The Faith

Brilliant movie 💯

Wow Toyah looks beautiful

best movie of all time

What happened to Jimmy in the end of the movie Quadrophenia? Did he kill himself? They should make a sequel

Why wasn’t Phil daniels in this?

Wow if Johnny rotten was the main character it would’ve been unreal

They need to make a sequel set in 2023. Quadrosenior. A film about a misunderstood year 60 year old wearing Ebay purchased Ben Sherman tat, riding a blinged up auto scooter listening to Oasis.

YES SEQUEL PLEASE !

How funny going into the booth to listen to music. Lol

Why was Phil Daniels not included?

No sequel necessary, please…

Ready steady go.

Parts of what Jimmy went through was excatly what i went through, In love with a girl who in the end didnt give a shit about me,,,,so...to many drugs n booze to ease myself, walking alone on a beach out of my head....friends sided with my girlfriend so i got the boot from my gang so to speak, went on alone.....IM ONE....MEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

Well there's been a Trainspotting 2 so why can't there be a sequel to this classic movie?

I was an extra in quadrophenia in BRIGHTON mods and rockers I was a mod brilliant and my daughter was conceived their happy day's

Jon Binden was a real life gangster who was a friend of Princess Margaret, thats how real he kept it.

u cant remake this movie just wouldnt work.all time classic

Thank god they didn't make a quad 2 like they done with trainspotting look how that turned out.

"Take it or leave it my son. Take it or leave it."

" CLean Living Under DifficuLt Cicumstances . . ." - Peter Meaden

3:09 120mm medium format snaps!

I remember watching the movie as a sixteen year old in Lübeck in the early eighties and not caring about the rumors skinheads busting our scooters outside the movie theater.

The Bloddy "HUU"! ?What about Swallowing The Bleedin' BLUES before The "Speed"?! dtf~DANce!, Doc Bombay, Chgo iLL

Phil Daniels Time Gentleman Please, Phil's a Regular , at one point ?, says .,,Oh him, he's our there riding a Scooter, like some Twat Mod . Irony !!!.

Make the sequel. I remember the battle of Hastings a few years later. The only difference is I was and always will be a rocker. They are right about trying to escape the shot.

This film changed my life once a mod always a mod great film and that's my life

of all the British Invasion Rock Bands, Only the Who could fit the Bill as far as the Music for Quadrophenia.

Phil not there??

Quadrophenia: Our Generation is a documentary about Quadrophenia.

Sting, not Chalky, turned out to be the ponce.

great, great film, always bothered about the vespa lines shown on beachy head, so you can see where it was practiced - shame it spoiled it for me

A Quadrophenia sequel? Quadrophenia concluded?

15:56, Nooooooooooooooooooo, leave it yu caaaahnt! The past future purfic.

It's currently at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

I saw this film at the cinema when it came out. The acting wasn't great and the music was not to my taste, but what really spoilt it for me was the anacronisms, especially seeing modern cars in the background when Jimmy is riding his scooter down the road. And also, the crowds watching the filming at Brighton, all very sloppy.

I love/hate the movie. I love it on its own merits but not as a representation of the Who album. This was more a Mods v Rockers movie than an exploration of a doubly schizophrenic profound character. Phil Daniels was amazing and I agree with not understanding how he didn't become a huge star after his performance. But the movie character does not appear to be or exhibit any behavior to indicate that he's schizofrenic (let alone "quadro"-phenic) and has more the common angst that all teenagers have, amplified by constant pill popping. He's even popular amongst his friends, not an outcast. All the Mods considered themselves outcasts as a whole, but Jimmy is not in his circle, until towards then end he finally gives in to his angst and rebels against his job and gets kicked out by his quite loving parents. The Jimmy on the album is 4 distinct personalities (thematically represented by each character of the Who) woven into one troubled soul with way more complexity and profundity than the movie Jimmy (IMO). But again, the movie on its own is a classic, very enjoyable, and Phil Daniels killed it.

WTF?, Jimmy didn't die in the end? ----- Sefuckinquel? Been watching the movie since '79, favourite album (in all of it's guises), Jim's alive FFS. Tell me he's still around but wearing leather, somebody tell me his kids ride Ducati Monsters and Buell 1200's.

07:31 ......sorry? Pardon. Lolz.

Top that Filum ,you can't....