Film

Quadrophenia: Can You See the Real Me?

2013 · 1h 10m · Documentary · Music

IMDb

7.7

In his home studio and revisiting old haunts in Shepherds Bush and Battersea, Pete Townshend opens his heart and his personal archive to revisit 'the last great album the Who ever made', one that took the Who full circle back to their earliest days via the adventures of a pill-popping mod on an epic journey of self-discovery. But in 1973 Quadrophenia was an album that almost never was. Beset by money problems, a studio in construction, heroin-taking managers, a lunatic drummer and a culture of heavy drinking, Townshend took on an album that nearly broke him and one that within a year the band had turned their back on and would ignore for nearly three decades. Contributors include: Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, Ethan Russell, Ron Nevison, Richard Barnes, Irish Jack Lyons, Bill Curbishley, John Woolf, Howie Edelson, Mark Kermode and Georgiana Steele Waller.

Pete Townshend

Himself

Roger Daltrey

Himself

Keith Moon

Himself

John Entwistle

Himself

Kenney Jones

Himself

Ethan Russell

Self

• Matt O'CaseyDirector

Release date

June 29, 2013

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 10m

Genres

Documentary, Music