{"id":25163,"date":"2023-05-02T05:30:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T09:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=25163"},"modified":"2023-04-25T10:30:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T14:30:50","slug":"preview-music-movie-mondays-quadrophenia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/02\/preview-music-movie-mondays-quadrophenia\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: Music Movie Mondays &#8211; &#8216;Quadrophenia&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In October 1973, The Who released their ambitious 2LP set <i>Quadrophenia<\/i>. Following on from songwriter Pete Townshend\u2019s previous conceptual\/narrative works <i>Tommy<\/i> and (the aborted) <i>Lifehouse<\/i>, <i>Quadrophenia<\/i> was superior in most every way: better songwriting, more muscular arrangements, and \u2013 perhaps most significantly \u2013 a compelling story line that one could actually follow.<\/p>\n<p>So it was perhaps no surprise that six years later, a film version of <i>Quadrophenia<\/i> appeared. Following the story of Jimmy, the story was set against the \u2018mods vs. rockers\u2019 scene of mid 1960s Britain. Filmed in and around Brighton, <i>Quadrophenia<\/i> is a dramatic tour de force and succeeds on many levels.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike <i>Tommy<\/i>, it\u2019s not a musical, and it features proper acting. Sting (The Police) makes a dramatic turn as Ace Face, and Toyah Willcox (today also known as the spouse of Robert Fripp) is in fine form as well.<\/p>\n<p>The highly popular monthly Music Movie Mondays series at Grail Moviehouse in Asheville\u2019s River Arts District continues with a special one-night-only screening of <i>Quadrophenia<\/i>, with a moderated discussion (led by me) to follow. May 8 at 7pm.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets and more info <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grailmoviehouse.com\/coming-soon-blog\/music-mondays-quadrophenia\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mY155Eh3684\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October 1973, The Who released their ambitious 2LP set Quadrophenia. Following on from songwriter Pete Townshend\u2019s previous conceptual\/narrative works Tommy and (the aborted) Lifehouse, Quadrophenia was superior in most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25058,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","cat-1-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25164,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25163\/revisions\/25164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}