'They are no longer kids, but they have not forgotten.' So Ellen Willis, the late cultural critic and pop music reviewer, mused about The Who.

Back in 1969. Having finally achieved American success with 'Tommy', they had more than one rock opera in them. So Pete Townshend sought to prove.

After his 'Lifehouse' project floundered in the early 1970s, Townshend chose to adapt the band's four personalities into another double-LP rock opera. Dcs World 2 Скачать. This time, the characteristics of The Who, with Roger Daltrey as the 'helpless dancer', John Entwistle as the romantic, and Keith Moon as the 'bloody lunatic', contended with Pete, 'a beggar, a hypocrite', as various leitmotifs dramatized. At the time, quadrophonic speakers were the audiophile's innovation; these combined and contrasted with the schizophrenic nature of one Mod's attempt to reconcile his fractured self, set more or less a decade earlier, when The Who emerged (if briefly) as the premier Mod ensemble. About ten years into their career, Quadrophenia found the godfathers of arena rock squaring off against the punks.

The original 1973 vinyl has been fussed over and remastered and reissued already. The 1979 film adaptation found Entwistle manipulating some of the songs for new mixes.

The album has been played live more than once, originally with poor results. This may account for it being toured less often than 'Tommy', which perhaps outlived by its own cinematic version its initially fresh impact.