THE WHO Quadrophenia 1973 UK TRACK 1st PRESS - - SUPERB SOUND
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May 20, 2016 Sold Date
May 10, 2016 Start Date
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THE WHO Quadrophenia 1973 UK TRACK 1st PRESS - TOP COPY - SUPERB SOUND EX+

THE WHO
Quadrophenia

UK TRACK (DE LUXE DOUBLE 2657 013) FIRST PRESSING (November 1973)
A few days in the life of Mod Jimmy and his existential crisis, "Schizophrenic? I'm bleeding Quadrophenic"

PRESSED WITH THE FIRST ISSUE BLACK/SILVER TRACK LABELS
Matrix Record One: 2406110 A?1 12 7 / 2406110 B?1 11 10 S2-MCA 362
Matrix Record Two: 2406111 A?1 11 2 / 2406111 B?2 12 16
THE TWO RECORDS ARE HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL SOFT BACKED GATEFOLD, PRINTED BY "Euro-Albums Holland B.V." WITH A 44 PAGE HEAVY BOOKLET CONTAINING BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS OF JIMMY'S STORY, FULL LYRICS AND AN ADDITIONAL FIRST PERSON (JIMMY) NARRATIVE BY PETE TOWNSHEND
COMPLETE WITH THE TWO ORIGINAL (matching) POLY-LINED INNER SLEEVES

The story covers about five days of the life of Mod, Jimmy Cooper (circa 1965)
"The story is set on a rock!" announced Pete Townshend, at one live performance, indicating that the opera represents Jimmy's looking back at the events of the previous few days that led him into the gloomy situation where he finds himself at the end of the story.
The narrative is difficult to derive from the lyrics alone, but becomes clearer with the benefit of a short story (also written by Townshend) related from Jimmy's first person perspective, that is printed on the inside of the LP cover.
The first half of the opera consists of songs that allude to the frustrations and insecurities that govern Jimmy's life, including brief glimpses of his home life, his job, his psychoanalyst, and his unsuccessful attempts to have a social life.
Jimmy feels idle and unsure of himself after a bank holiday weekend he spent at Brighton Beach some time before where he participated in a brawl between the Mods and Rockers.
Halfway through the opera he sings "I've Had Enough", finds himself kicked out of his home when his parents find his box of 'blues' and in a fit of depression, wrecks his prized scooter.
Distraught and with nothing better to do, Jimmy drops a large dose of blues and takes a train ride to the coast - out of my brain on the "5:15", where he once felt truly alive and accepted.
During his stay near the beach in Brighton, he encounters the former "Ace Face", the leader of a group of Mods, whom he admires greatly. However, "Ace Face" works as a bell boy at a nearby hotel. Ironically this is the very same hotel Ace Face had smashed the windows of two days before. This display of masculine bravado had earned him the admiration of many of his fellow Mods two days before during Jimmy's first stay in Brighton.
Jimmy is disgusted to learn that the person he had admired as a Mod had "sold out".
At this point Jimmy is inconsolable. Everybody from his parents to his girlfriend had disappointed him before, but he had never expected the Mod lifestyle to let him down.
Drunk and depressed, he steals a small outboard-driven rowboat and takes it out to a barren rock protruding from the sea, where he endures a psychological crash. With his life's worries splayed out in front of him in detail he then faces the fact that his boat has drifted off, he's coming down from his pills and gin, and is now stranded on the rock as a storm rages around him. With nothing left to live for, he finds a spiritual redemption in the pouring rain ("Love, Reign o'er Me")

Side 1: I Am The Sea - The Real Me - Quadrophenia - Cut My Hair - The Punk & The Godfather
Side 2: I'm One - The Dirty Jobs - Helpless Dancer - Is It In My Head - I've Had Enough
Side 3: 5.15 - Sea And Sand - Drowned - Bell Boy
Side 4: Doctor Jimmy - The Rock - Love Reign O'er Me 

LABELS: EXCELLENT+
Clean, unmarked labels - a few light spindle traces
VINYL Visual: EXCELLENT
All surfaces shine like new with nothing but a couple of harmless marks and harmless wispy hairlines
VINYL Audio: EXCELLENT+
Great copy my play-check at loud volume found little to fault the strong, loud and powerful sound - plays beautifully with just two ticks on “I'm One” otherwise pretty much perfect - an incredibly impressive piece of work and one very highly recommended indeed
SLEEVE: EXCELLENT+
The soft backed gatefold is clean and unmarked - the booklet has come loose but is otherwise NM

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