This is a reunion of director Franc Raddam and some of the key collaborators that took part in the production of the British cinema classic 'Quadrophenia' back in 1979. The film tells a story of Jimmy (Phil Daniels), a troubled West London Mod who finds an outlet for his teenage angst by taking amphetamines, partying, riding scooters and brawling with rockers. The reunion features interviews and insights of Singer-actress Toyah Wilcox, actors Phil Davies ('Vera Drakke', 'Whitechapel') and Mark Wingett ('The Bill'), the film's editor Sean Barton, co-writer Martin Stellman, and producer Bill Curbishley who is also the manager of the English rock band 'The Who' that released an album Quadrophenia that inspired the film
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As a teenager in Great Neck, New York, in the '80s, Quadrophenia "influenced" me greatly. Yes, some of us Americans got it!
I think every teenager should watch this movie just to show them, Generation after Generation have gone through the same issues as you are going through just now.
Grew up Oceanside Ny in 80s Top 3 favorite albums
Ditto, but from Ellicott City, MD. We rented this from erol's video in 1983
Glad you got it, got it second time around with The Jam and the Mod revival of 1979-82…… The music, the clothes, the bikes , the books and the art , once you get it Mod is a way of life …….
Add the Majestic Theater in Madison, Wisconsin to this list of Quadrophenia afflicted locations that helped teenagers in the US learn about the mods and rockers! Stunning cast and raw power throughout!
Quadrophenia will always be a special film... As culture films go, this has to be the best one ever made!! And the thing about Jimmy is he was an everyday man, a normal chap of that time! That's how we can relate to him! 👍🏻😎💯
Very true
This film is timeless. Saw it as a teen in the early ‘80’s. Everything in it rang true to me then, as it does to my kids, today. All the best.👍🏾🇬🇧
I first seen this movie when I was 17 and it just blew my mind, had a bit more respect for my dad who was an original mod in the 60s! Great times
First saw the film in my 30’s and it was like opening a door and going back to my teens . Did all the clubs , did all the riots , shopped in carnaby street at John stephens before it became a tourist trap .. mods a way of life … never forgotten
I had the pleasure of seeing Quandrophenia in an old time movie theatre back in the early ‘80s . Incredible film.
Best Film EVER!
As an American Who fan I always loved this movie, even though I didn't understand it at first... I called it the British "American Graffiti". The movie "Tommy" was hard to watch but "Quadrophenia" was great...
I thought it was a good film but not my best.I`ve never been a fan of the mod culture but The Who yes.But this film interestingly portrayed the fast and outgoing life of an active party going character living in working class area of London.I`d rather just get the album Quadrophenia than get the dvd of the film though.
It wasn't my generation but I saw it as an older teen when involved in the rave scene (1990-95). it made me aware of youth culture and made me appreciate being part of what was arguably the last huge youth movement.
Me too... 1992 for me
I have got to admit I would have loved to have seen Jonny Rotten on that scooter as Jimmy, probably the only other person that would have pulled it off
Probably the greatest drumming ever laid down on any album
for sure
I have it on DVD and have watched it many times….timeless!
I bought the album first. The first thing i bought with my first pay.. Love the Who. Films often don't live up to the Original but this was epic!
A truly great British classic.... A cult film and I always felt we won!!
We Did & ARE + Our Lineages ARE!
I´m 46 now...from Argentina....LOVE THIS MOVIE AND THE WHO!!
You can lose yourself in this for hours with a decent audio setup. A masterpiece.
great film,shame some of the cast is missing in this reunion
I remember a couple of these geezers staying at the Park Lane Hotel in NY for the premier.
I bought the VHS video on my day off work......loved it
Saw this film 3 times love it so much❤
@peterbirkett9537 Good On You M8! From my 1st viewing Opening Day in Chicago until now i "Saw this film" 3000 "times love it so much❤"! Mod Since 1972, "mods a way of life … never forgotten"! My Special Thanks to Milwaukee Wi/Madison Wi/ Chicago iLL MOD~"Mocker", Nuda! dan the fan/dtf/Doc Bombay, Chicago iLL
I was 15 when i saw this on tv... and then went out to buy it on vhs tape... would have been around 1992,... so they are right, it spoke to me and was great to get a feel of those groups from a standing beside them perspective.
This is so good, and the film is a classic.
The main character Jimmy picked for this movie was spot on - my late friend god bless him introduced me to it in 1984 what a classic good times - looking forward to the sequel I hope Jimmy is in it and some of the original cast
Seeing Ray that young is great.
A big thumbs up to a brilliant film
Tommy was brilliant and the 70s were exciting times.Quadrophenia and Easy rider were great films many of us loved.
Trainspotting was another cult film that is still loved
@@Ian-bq7gp good 1 M8!
TOYAH ,,STILL SO GORGEOUS
Much more fuck able than in 79 fo sho
Even MORE gorgeous. Fine wine and all that.And just the perfect amount of insane, god love her.
Yea she's fab mate.
It would be nice to see all of the cast in a play, a meet up of the characters, how their lives turned out, set in current times. How successful were they , or not as the case maybe. How their ideals changed, how their thoughts on life changed and so on. A great film, who would've thought that it would've become such a popular, cultural icon of a film?
1964. Petticoat Lane on a Sunday, in Ravels looking for shoes that nobody else had, driving shoes were in at the time. Carnaby St for Mates, John Stephen's, Take 6. "I was Kitchener's Valet" in Portabello Rd. I was a hairdresser at Vidal Sassoon in 68. 1967 Saw The Who and Jimi Hendrix at the Saville Theatre on Shaftsbury Ave, also the The Who, The Move and Pink Floyd at the Roundhouse Camden on New Years Eve 1966. Great memories. I lived in Brighton while the film was being made, i think it was Marcaris ice cream parlour on the corner of West St that got trashed. Where Phil and Leslie shagged became a shrine. 😂
I'll never forget seeing Quadrophenia as the midnight movie at the UC Theater in Berkeley in '82...all the scooters lined up at the curb out front and people shoutin' at the screen when Jimmy was havin' a wank! Hilarious! As a teen back then, it was just a great time. Like they mentioned, young American teens in the early '80's came out of the woodwork for movies like this AND Dance Craze, and drove the popularity to help make it big for some time..then, after 9/11 the world took a giant shit and you'll never see stuff like this again
@David_Watts ~ALFRED, E. N., "mods a way of life … never forgotten" dtf
The very best music/song to open a movie in history!! Can you see the real me is maybe my favourite ..the one concert I saw they opened with it and I was just memorised..Loved the way it was set in suburban London..will never age..great actors..Great British movie
The theme of Quadrophenia is universal. ie. The Teenage experience / Teenage Angst & trying to find out where you fit in etc...... And the storyline & plot as well as the acting are great but where it fails to appeal to a worldwide audience is in it's delivery & the very parochial and regional nature of the english mod scene & cockney culture. Personally I love it as I'm a bit of an Anglophile but I can also understand how a lot of the world just don't 'get it'
@theselector4733 The Lame Wankers, THE Majority in Every Country Did not/Do Not have The Mod's Music & PHILosopy & Scenes and without A Mod Reality Tunnel it would take an Above Avg, Smart "Civilian" To get Mod~ism, which is Essential to Getting This!
Love this film 🎥great memories ❤
We loved it in Chicago
A sequel would be so lovely
Nice thought Adam but i think it would be impossible to recreate that magic moment in time. Great film.
A Mod film came out in 2021 called "To be someone" with most of the original cast similar roles to that of Quadrophenia but obviously older.
@@richie4830 I have not heard of that, thanks i will look it up.
@@kingsfleet21 I believe it's on Amazon prime.
Don't bother its not that good abit of a let down really 😢
A way of life, I loved it! 😀😀
I saw this when it came out at the pictures i was 17 , i thought it was brilliant i wasn't a mod or even into that musical at the time , brilliant musical arrangement , i have the dvd which i watch from time to time with my son sometimes.
Brilliant movie 💯
Brilliant Movie.
Pete Townshend probably taught more Gen X American males about English culture than anyone else.
I agree 💯 mate
Have a framed poster of the movie side in my living room. One of my all time favorites. In the eighties I strode the line between rocker and mod. Loved ALL the music, but preferred to dress smart. Rockers had a better attitude though.
First time I saw it, was in English class 1985....we were leaving school soon and had no work to do, so our teacher showed us a video of the movie.
YES SEQUEL PLEASE !
A brilliant film long live mods from an old mod 🤩😊😎🤗❤🎉
Like all great films and great art, it's an authentic expression of some facet of the universal human condition. And the fact that this film, or this kind of film, would not be made now highlights the shallow, vacuousness of the popular arts today.
HOW FUCKING TRUE!!
best movie of all time
So glad John Lydon didnt do the main character.A Sex Pistols punk rocker as an actor playing the part of a mod.Dont know why he was even comtemplating it.
I would of definitely been a mod all those years ago.
Recorded it on vhs,when it was premiered on British tv. Not sure if I was in my teens but everyone around me watched it,and then watched it with more little fuckers. It defo made a difference to about 25/30 kids in 88/89. However it was my recording prowess with steath after my parents had either gone to bed or stopped paying attention that introduced a lot of late eighties kids to some naughty movies.on the list..clockwork Orange, the thing,hellraisers, porkies, nightmare on elm st. I was naughty free blockbuster for a year or so....I got paid in beer,whiskey and chips n gravy.
A sequel to Quadrophenia would be pretty damn epic. I don’t know if it stand up to the original it would have to be way different.
Brilliant we are the mods
Don't make a fricking sequel.
Exactly
Agreed mate 👍
First time i saw it was in a little loft theatre in Tucson. There were a bunch of ppl there in mod gear with scooters! This was like 82 or so. Of course there's me, dressed up in their mid 70s look, totally outta place! Crazy days And while jumping off the cliffs of Dover made for a more exciting ending, i prefer how the story ends written in the album. Stuck out on the rock
Wow. Give us a sequel to Quadrophenia right fuckin' now....
Greatest film of a generation Mods mods mods 😎
"Take it or leave it my son. Take it or leave it."
so many people didn't know what a mod is... essentially as Pete Meaden once described mod-ism as an aphorism for clean living under difficult circumstances... re-watching the film with this in mind makes much more sense
13:34 Let Mark speak Phil !! It's the first time he has opened his mouth.
Wow Toyah looks beautiful
Ready steady go.
Brilliant Movie. C"mon the Rockers.
How funny going into the booth to listen to music. Lol
3:09 120mm medium format snaps!
Jon Binden was a real life gangster who was a friend of Princess Margaret, thats how real he kept it.
Binden
@@steventaylor3884 Correction made, bloody autocarrot
A friend of royalty, sounds like scum
They need to make a sequel set in 2023. Quadrosenior. A film about a misunderstood year 60 year old wearing Ebay purchased Ben Sherman tat, riding a blinged up auto scooter listening to Oasis.
I agree. There are enough of those people about, 2nd generation mods, still going on their scooter runs.
Did Bill Curbishley ever make / produce the sequel. I have mates if your British don’t laugh in Scunthorpe North Lincolnshire. I met them summer of 1985 coming out of a strip club here in San Diego when I was 21. I first visited them two years later summer of 87. I know that Quadrophenia kicked off a whole new scooter craze in Great Britain. Scunthorpe had two scooter clubs::Pathfinders and Roadrunners. They would journey up to Scarborough on weekends where after a day on the piss they would brawl with other scooter clubs. And the local police would politely ask them to leave!!!! We journeyed up to Scarborough July 11 1987 I still remember the day. The only thing that kept my mates from Sunny Scunny and some lads from Huddersfield from fighting I got up on the pool table and sang the American National Anthem and followed it up with a few choruses of Waltzing Matilda. Broke up everybody up Bar Staff the very Nervous owner and all the patrons. I still listen to Quadrophenia every god damn day!!!!!
Dunno about the sequel question mate. Your story was "blinding" (Cockney London slang) I'm from Kensington and Chelsea in London originally. Live in the ☀ now. 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇸
When I first saw Quadrophenia in January of 1980, Punk Rock was everywhere. I thought that Philip Davis (Chalky) was Topper Headen of The Clash. That Mark Wingett was Joe Strummer of The Clash and that Ray Winstone was Steve Jones of The Sex Pistols.
Would love a sequel with a more adult Jimmy in the world of punk rockers and Margaret Thatcher - a meta movie of sorts setting it in the time the original came out.
Wow if Johnny rotten was the main character it would’ve been unreal
Mmmmm no!
I agree.He did a film with Harvey Kietel.What he was doing being an actor i dont know.Perhaps it was because the Sex Pistols split up and he tried acting.Not very punk im glad he only ever did one film.
And probably never been finished.
Not sure if Lydon would have pulled off the lead, but seeing him as a major supporting actor would have been tops.
Lydon would have been a disaster in this film.
I was an extra in quadrophenia in BRIGHTON mods and rockers I was a mod brilliant and my daughter was conceived their happy day's
Why was Phil Daniels not included?
What happened to Jimmy in the end of the movie Quadrophenia? Did he kill himself? They should make a sequel
It's open to interpretation, but the very first scene of the film shows Jimmy walking away from the cliff edge back towards the camera, presumably a changed person who has arrived at the other side of his rite of passage into adulthood. The lyrics of the final song which plays as Jimmy rides over Beachy Head tell how he has Had Enough of the whole scene and the madness of it all. To me, Jimmy trashes the scooter and ultimately rises above everyone else in the film, walking away from the cliff back towards the rest of his life, presumably wiser and ready. Pete Townshend and The Who made the same transition away from the mod scene and embraced a different future. In fairness, the album story goes slightly differently where Jimmy has some kind of spiritual awakening which is borne of extreme suffering and mental illness but i would like to think the outcome is the same. Genius album and great film
Why wasn’t Phil daniels in this?
Parts of what Jimmy went through was excatly what i went through, In love with a girl who in the end didnt give a shit about me,,,,so...to many drugs n booze to ease myself, walking alone on a beach out of my head....friends sided with my girlfriend so i got the boot from my gang so to speak, went on alone.....IM ONE....MEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
Phil Daniels Time Gentleman Please, Phil's a Regular , at one point ?, says .,,Oh him, he's our there riding a Scooter, like some Twat Mod . Irony !!!.
Thank god they didn't make a quad 2 like they done with trainspotting look how that turned out.
Yeah, that was awful wasnt it...
u cant remake this movie just wouldnt work.all time classic
Make the sequel. I remember the battle of Hastings a few years later. The only difference is I was and always will be a rocker. They are right about trying to escape the shot.
of all the British Invasion Rock Bands, Only the Who could fit the Bill as far as the Music for Quadrophenia.
At last someone gets that. Beatles were a contrived package mate. London bands essentially weren't.
It is the single most influencial film of all time. Period. Keep The Faith
100% !! 👏
What does 'Period' mean??
The Bloddy "HUU"! ?What about Swallowing The Bleedin' BLUES before The "Speed"?! dtf~DANce!, Doc Bombay, Chgo iLL
Phil not there??
Well there's been a Trainspotting 2 so why can't there be a sequel to this classic movie?
They was but no jimmy kzhead.info/sun/ZqZ-ZMOurItriKc/bejne.html
Leave it be
Yeah and that was shit, let’s not spoil this
15:56, Nooooooooooooooooooo, leave it yu caaaahnt! The past future purfic.
Quadrophenia: Our Generation is a documentary about Quadrophenia.
I remember watching the movie as a sixteen year old in Lübeck in the early eighties and not caring about the rumors skinheads busting our scooters outside the movie theater.
great, great film, always bothered about the vespa lines shown on beachy head, so you can see where it was practiced - shame it spoiled it for me
And the fly screen changed about 5 times 😅
Sting, not Chalky, turned out to be the ponce.
A Quadrophenia sequel? Quadrophenia concluded?
If it comes to be Roger and Pete HAVE to be in it somewhere. Sting too.
@@nationradical If it’s going to be realistic, then most of the cast would have to be in it; certainly, Phil Daniels, Lesly Ash, Toyah, and Sting. How many years after the mid ‘60s would it take place? What would everyone be doing with their lives? It would be like that one or more of the original characters would have “left” us. Could be a very interesting sequel, but I think it would probably be better off without. A Quadrophenia TV series might be interesting, if, it was no more than three seasons, was serious, and adhered to the original characters and era. 🤔
07:31 ......sorry? Pardon. Lolz.
It's currently at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Fair enough but it's showing that 80% liked the film.
if you where there atm it was briliant top banana
I saw this film at the cinema when it came out. The acting wasn't great and the music was not to my taste, but what really spoilt it for me was the anacronisms, especially seeing modern cars in the background when Jimmy is riding his scooter down the road. And also, the crowds watching the filming at Brighton, all very sloppy.
I bet you're great fun to be with 😂
@@steffanhoffmann It is called film criticism and is valid when we pay to see these movies and expect more professionalism than this from them.
@@kernowarty okay accepted 👍
@@kernowartylow budget film, filmed in real locations not studios, just enjoy the movie
WTF?, Jimmy didn't die in the end? ----- Sefuckinquel? Been watching the movie since '79, favourite album (in all of it's guises), Jim's alive FFS. Tell me he's still around but wearing leather, somebody tell me his kids ride Ducati Monsters and Buell 1200's.
No, at the start of the film you see him walking away from the cliffs. Though I think most people forget that and presume he rode over the edge.
Lol, no Brit’s will be riding Buells when we have Triumphs
@@CycolacFan Yep, presumably a changed person who has finally arrived at adulthood on the other end of his rite of passage. I like to think this shows him as ultimately stronger and more ready for whatever comes after than anyone else in the film
rauf faik....lalala nananana~
Top that Filum ,you can't....
This film changed my life once a mod always a mod great film and that's my life
How can they make a sequel with Jimmy? Doesn't he die in the end?
I think when you see Jimmy walking away from the cliff at the beginning of the film it suggests he jumped off the scooter before it plummeted.
Yes, all he 'kills' is the whole chapter of his life and walks away, presumably as a wiser person. The lyrics to the song Had Enough which is playing up to the scooter 'death' tell of everything he's sick of. I prefer to see it that way anyway
so silly to imagine young people know what they are doing. The director talks as if he is dealing with a cult. I have been part, simply by being there, of a few youth movements. It just happened. Sickening to see it all made to dance for the watchers outside the cage.
Dont need poncy opinions ,,that movie was for the kids
and most of us WERE kids when it first came out you thick twat!!!! Why are there so many dumb ass pricks around??? You have the education of a bilge rat -tosspot!!