The Who: Quadrophenia (1973)

Pete Townshend’s even more thematically ambitious follow-up to the enormously successful Tommy sketched in the life of a young Mod (and Who fan) looking for his place in the world in the mid 1960s. It didn’t spring the chart hits of Tommy but is a stronger, more musically coherent album which tapped into a universal teenage angst. Like the original Tommy, a beautifully presented double album also.

Next: The Who, Tommy, Who’s Next and Live at Shea Stadium 1982; Pete Townshend, Empty Glass

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