THE WHO "Quadrophenia" 1973 UK ORIGINAL TRACK DOUBLE

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  THE WHO "Quadrophenia" 1973 UK ORIGINAL TRACK DOUBLE STUNNING ONE PLAY COPY, SENSATIONAL, STRONG MINT AUDIO
THE WHO
Quadrophenia

A few days in the life of Mod Jimmy who who feels double schizophrenic - hence Quadrophenia ("Schizophrenic? I'm bleeding Quadrophenic")

ORIGINAL UK TRACK (DE LUXE DOUBLE 2657 013) PRESSING (October 1973) OF THE WHO'S ELECTRIFYING TWO LP SET, "Quadrophenia" - IN BEAUTIFUL, BARELY PLAYED CONDITION (RECORD ONE HAS BEEN PLAYED ONCE, RECORD TWO IS UNPLAYED) AND THE SET DELIVERS STUNNING MINT AUDIO THROUGHOUT WITH A TREMENDOUSLY STRONG AND CRYSTAL CLEAR LOUD CUT
THE SOFT BACKED GATEFOLD SLEEVE IS ALSO IN PRACTICALLY UNTOUCHED MINT(-) CONDITION (having been kept in a protective plastic sleeve since new) - THE HEAVY INTERNAL 44 PAGE BOOK HAS PREDICTABLY COME LOOSE BUT IS OTHERWISE MINT
FANTASTIC, PRACTICALLY AS-NEW ORIGINAL UK COPY OF THE WHO'S MASTERPIECE

SUPERLATIVES FAIL ME WHEN TRYING TO DESCRIBE THE SHEER POWER OF THIS ALBUM AND THIS PRESSING - RIGHT FROM THE OPENING SOUNDS OF THE WAVES CRASHING ONTO THE SHINGLE BEACH TO JIMMY'S FINAL 'REDEMPTION' AND "REIGH O'ER ME" SOME 82 MINUTES LATER THE PIECE HAS UNBELIEVABLE STRENGTH AND PURPOSE AND IS DELIVERED WITH AN ABSOLUTELY TREMENDOUS, POWERFUL LOUD CUT
THIS ALBUM IS AN INCREDIBLE ACHIEVEMENT AND HOLDS TOGETHER AS A COHERENT, ABSOLUTELY STUNNING PIECE OF WORK

THERE ARE SOME CRITERIA WHICH MARK THIS COPY OUT AS AN ORIGINAL UK ISSUE:
* THE GATEFOLD SLEEVE IS SOFT BACKED IN CONSTRUCTION, PRINTED BY "Euro-Albums Holland B.V." WITH A 'STAPLED AND STUCK' 44 PAGE HEAVY BOOKLET CONTAINING BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS OF JIMMY'S STORY AND FULL LYRICS AND AN ADDITIONAL FIRST PERSON (JIMMY) NARRATIVE BY PETE TOWNSHEND.
* THE SPINE HAS THE BAND NAME, ALBUM TITLE AND CATALOGUE NUMBER 'TRACK DE LUXE DOUBLE 2657 013'
* THE TWO RECORDS ARE PRESSED ON QUALITY MID-WEIGHT VINYL WHICH DELIVER THE STUNNING AUDIO WITH A BEAUTIFUL LOUD CUT
* THE MATRICES HAVE THE INVERTED TRIANGLE SEPARATOR (∇) BETWEEN THE A OR B ON SOME (OR ALL) OF THEIR NUMBERS (see matrices below), LATER ISSUES HAVE THE MORE COMMON DOUBLE BACKSLASH (//) IN ALL OF THESE POSITIONS

MATRIX:
RECORD ONE: 2406110 A//2 420 0 13 1 / 2406110 B//2 11 2
RECORD TWO: 2406111 A∇1 1 3 6 1 5 / 2406111 B∇2 11 29
(looks like this copy was at the end of the first batch issued as RECORD ONE does not have the additional "S2 MCA 362" etching present on the very earliest copies although RECORD TWO does has the earliest matrix number)

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 day or two 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 takes 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 pouring rain ("Love, Reign o'er Me").

Track Listing:
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: The Black/Silver TRACK labels are CLEAN and BRIGHT with NO wear, NO writing and only ONE spindle trace on the Side Two label - NONE on the others. SIDE ONE HAS POSSIBLY BEEN PLAYED JUST THE ONE ONE TIME AND THE REST OF THE ALBUM IS UNPLAYED
VINYL Visual: Both records have their original DEEP, LIKE-NEW, GLOSSY SHEEN and are completely UNMARKED
VINYL Audio: As you have probably guessed by now I ADORE this album and the audio delivery is absolutely SENSATIONAL – BEAUTIFULLY RICH, WARM and CRYSTAL CLEAR. On play-grading at a LOUD volume there are NO scratches, NO sticks/jumps and NO surface noise AT ALL and both records play to their highest possible standard with TREMENDOUS CLARITY, NO distortion and NO groove-wear. BEAUTIFUL CLEAN PRESSING. THE WHOLE SET DELIVERS AN ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING LISTENING EXPERIENCE ON EVERY FRONT FROM START TO FINISH and is graded MINT for audio - STUNNING COPY
SLEEVE: The SOFT-BACKED gatefold cover with booklet is also virtually AS-NEW - CLEAN, SHARP and FRESH with practically NO wear to the edges or the THICK SPINE where all text is CLEAR, SHARP and BOLD. None of the common ring wear normally associated with this sleeve. The booklet has predictably come loose from its staples (it is very, very heavy and the sleeve is now over 35 years old) but otherwise, it is beautifully CLEAN, FRESH and UNMARKED with NO page creases and NO dog-eared corners. SUPERB EXAMPLE OF THIS EASILY WORN SLEEVE

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