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‘Quadrophenia’: as-good-as-could-be-expected film of The Who’s greatest album

March 26, 2012 By Kathy Shaidle

Dismissed as a failed, embarrassing experiment, Quadrophenia is slowly being recognized as one of The Who’s great achievements. Of course, I never doubted…

To celebrate the release of a deluxe edition, The Who set up an amazing site about the album.

The (genuinely flawed) movie based on the album came out when I was a teenager, and ran regularly at the local (only) rep cinema.

Today, TrailersFromHell looks back at Quadrophenia (1979):

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