ORIGINAL 1973 THE WHO QUADROPHENIA LP - EXCELLENT - VINYL - GATEFOLD BOOKLET

	£		20
	$		26

This is the best 1973 original condition one that I have seen.

Gatefold Cover grading excellent, slight wear on bottom corner, see photos.

Booklet excellent together in one piece attached to cover not with staples but neatly stuck in position, see photos.

No writing on cover or labels

Vinyl no. 1 = 2406 110A -- 2406 110B

Vinyl no. 2 = 2406 111A -- 2406 111A

The vinyl is excellent bright condition

The Who – Quadrophenia  Format: 2 × Vinyl  LP Album Released:1973  Style:Mod

Tracklist:-  

A1 .. I Am The Sea .. A2 The Real Me .. A3 Quadrophenia .. A4 Cut My Hair .. A5 The Punk And The Godfather    

B1 .. I'm One .. B2 The Dirty Jobs .. B3 Helpless Dancer .. B4 Is It In My Head .. B5 I've Had Enough    
C1 .. 5:15 .. C2 Sea And Sand .. C3 Drowned .. C4 Bell Boy    
D1 .. Doctor Jimmy .. D2 The Rock .. D3 Love, Reign O'er Me

HISTORY.

In order to do justice to the recording of Quadrophenia, the group decided to build their own studio, Ramport Studios in Battersea. Work started on building Ramport in November 1972. Townshend's friend Ronnie Lane loaned his mobile studio for the sessions.  Lambert began producing the album in May, by mid 1973, Daltrey demanded the band recruited engineer Ron Nevison, who had worked with Townshend's associate John Alcock, to assist with engineering.

To illustrate the four-way split personality of Jimmy, Townshend wrote four themes, reflecting the four members of the Who. These were "Bell Boy" (Moon), "Is It Me?" (Entwistle), "Helpless Dancer" (Daltrey) and "Love Reign O'er Me" (Townshend). Two lengthy instrumentals on the album, the title track and "The Rock" contain the four themes, separately and together. The instrumentals were not demoed but built up in the studio. Who author John Atkins described the instrumental tracks as "the most ambitious and intricate music the group ever undertook.

Most tracks involved each of the group recording their parts separately unlike earlier albums, Townshend had left space in his demos for other band members to contribute, though most of the synthesizers on the finished album came from his ARP 2500 synthesizer and were recorded at home.The only song arranged by the band in the studio was "5.15” According to Nevison, the ARP 2500 was impossible to record in the studio,which required Townshend to work on these parts at home, working late into the night. To obtain a good string section sound on the album, Townshend bought a cello and over two weeks learned how to play it well enough to be recorded.

Townshend recorded the whistle of a diesel train near his home in Goring-on-Thames as one of the album's sound effects.

Entwistle recorded his bass part to "The Real Me" in one take on a Gibson Thunderbird and spent several weeks during the summer arranging and recording numerous multi-tracked horn parts. Having been forced to play more straightforwardly by Johns on Who's Next, Moon returned to his established drumming style on Quadrophenia. He contributed lead vocals to "Bell Boy", where he deliberately showcased an exaggerated narrative style.]For the finale of "Love, Reign O'er Me", Townshend and Nevison set up a large group of percussion instruments, which Moon played before kicking over a set of tubular bells, which can be heard on the final mix.

During the album production, Townshend made many field recordings with a portable reel-to-reel recorder. These included waves washing on a Cornish beach and the doppler whistle of a diesel train recorded near Townshend's house at Goring-on-Thames The ending of "The Dirty Jobs" includes a musical excerpt from a brass band performance of The Thunderer by John Philip Sousa, which Nevison recorded in Regents Park. ]Assembling the field recordings in the studio was problematic; at one point, during "I Am the Sea", nine different tape machines were running sound effects. According to Nevison, Townshend produced the album single-handedly, adding that "everything started when Pete got there, and everything finished when Pete left". Townshend began mixing the album in August at his home studio in Goring along with Nevison.

Release.

The album was preceded by the single "5:15" in the UK, which benefited from a live appearance on Top of the Pops on 4 October 1973 and was released the next day. It reached No. 20 in the charts. Quadrophenia was originally released in the UK on 26 October, but fans found it difficult to find a copy due to a shortage of vinyl caused by the OPEC oil embargo.[29] In the UK, Quadrophenia reached No. 2, being held off the top spot by David Bowie's Pin Ups.[a] In the US, the album reached No. 2 on the US Billboard album chart (kept from #1 by Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album), the highest position of any Who album in the US.

This album is as originally released as a two-LP set with a gatefold jacket and a booklet containing lyrics, a text version of the story, and photographs taken by Ethan Russell.