QUADROPHENIA The film masterpiece inspired by the eponymous album by The Who returns to the cinema

London, 60s. Lambrettas, amphetamines, parkas, fighting on the beaches between mods and rockers. The post-war Britain and soul music. The explosion of teen angst of a generation that wants to try to live by writing alone their own future and finally gives way to disillusionment. All in an extraordinary film, directed by Franc Roddam, which draws lifeblood and songs from the album The Who’s masterpiece, one of the 10 most important albums in rock history. With a young Sting in the role of Ace, one of the stars of the movie.

After 35 years since that 1979 the came out of theaters around the world, Quadrophenia, the film directed masterpiece inspired by the eponymous album by The Who in 1973, returns to the cinema version restored and digitized only Tuesday, December 10 (list of cinemas soon be available on www.nexodigital.it ). An output-awaited because it falls in the year of the fiftieth anniversary of the band. The film, tracing the music of the album, told through the protagonist Jimmy, the contrasts of the English generation of the ’60s that was divided between the Mods (well-dressed young men who were leading Italian scooter) and Rockers (followers of the American rock and roll years 50’s, dressed in leather jackets and always riding big motorcycles). So Quadrophenia is probably still capable of showing the film like no other the combination of rock and rebellion of youth.

While the cult film inspired the Who’s album back in the hall restored and digitized, Universal Music radio shows from now on tHE WHO “BE LUCKY”, the song which anticipates the release of the new collection tHE WHO “HITS 50” scheduled for 4 November at the 50th anniversary of the band’s Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend.

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