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1 the who he Who, November 197 L to R: Pete owshed, Keith Moo, Roger altrey ad oh Etwistle Photo: riifold Maagemet Produced by lfred Music P.O. ox 1 Va Nuys, C alfred.com Prited i US. No part of this book shall be reproduced, arraged, adapted, recorded, publicly performed, stored i a retrieval system, or trasmitted by ay meas without writte permissio from the publisher. I order to comply with copyright laws, please apply for such writte permissio ad/or licese by cotactig the publisher at alfred.com/permissios. ISN-1: ISN-1: Cover & iside back cover photos: Copyright Graham Hughes. ll rights reserved. ack cover & iside frot cover photos: Copyright Etha. Russell. ll rights reserved.

2 Keith Moo. his is the cover of the cocert program from he Who s 1976 U.K. stadium tour with Little Feat, he Outlaws, he Sesatioal lex Harvey ad, ad the Streetwalkers. Photo: riifold Maagemet

3 Phil aiels, who plays immy i the 1979 Quadropheia film, with Pete owshed durig the filmig. Photo: Moviestore Collectio/Rex/Rex US this 11 REVISI to he Who s 197 Quadropheia recordig is ispired by curret ad cotiuig iterest i INt R o UCt I o N Pete owshed dow various bits of music that got lost alog the way. I m ot tryig to rewrite history so much as eoy this trawl back through the two ad half the proect. he Who performed a cocert versio of the piece years or so whe Quadropheia was gestatig ad emergig. at the Royal lbert Hall i 1 for the eeage Cacer rust I am makig some surprisig discoveries. with excellet reviews, ad the success of that evet led to the hose of you who eoy Quadropheia ust as it was first prospect of a Who tour i 1 based o the album. he last released partly have the limits of the viyl album to thak. Hard such tour was betwee here is a sequel to the 1979 ad gradiose rock music demaded a lot of this delicate medium film plaed, that will cotiue immy s life after his Mod days, ad about 17 miutes o each side was close to the maximum which will go ito productio i 1 1. he origial 1979 film that made sese if you wated your record to be aarchically is beig restored for lu-ray with surroud soud. orchestral loud. I might have left all the paddig off the album, eve if I had score is beig developed by Rachel Fuller that could see bee allowed more viyl time. Quadropheia proved to me that the piece performed as part of the repertoire of iteratioal rules ca be broke ad ew oes established. he rule that orchestras aroud the world. youthful ad explosive musical was established o the origial album as recorded by he Who, theatre adaptatio successfully toured the UK for six moths was that eergetic musical rage could covey the etire gamut of i 9 ad a revised versio is i developmet i New huma emotio. We did t eed throwaway tracks for light relief, York. Quadropheia, as much as ommy, cotiues to excite we did t eed light ad shade, we did t eed iroy or humour, iterest i ew listeers. we hardly eeded sadess. Hearig Roger literally scream he origial viyl album, released i late 197, was powerful, Love reig o er me a lyric I had writte to demostrate the but compromised i some ways by the rigours of life i ad most extreme ad miserable pathos of the soul ridiculed ad aroud he Who at the time. remix for C was released i abadoed by everyoe ad everythig I leared that such a hat atteded to the fact that o some sogs, Roger s icoic altrey bellow ca symbolically carry witherig sadess, woderfully powerful vocals had bee crushed o the viyl versio. self-pity, loeliess, abadomet, spiritual desperatio, the loss Sice the a V release has featured a cocert versio of romace, of love ad of childhood as well as the more obvious performed i 1997, but with a moo soudtrack. he time has rage ad frustratio. he agst of those teeage years, i which come for me ad my team to hoour Quadropheia with a all of us feel misuderstood, is easy to make fu of but it is real carefully preseted package that features examples of the ad brigs my hero, immy, to cosider suicide. s the composer impact surroud soud (quadraphoic) would have o the music, ad author of the story, I realised that I had o right to decide to remaster the viyl mixes, ad to collect ad restore my demos. whether or ot immy eded his ow life. s a aded rock star What will last a lot loger tha me talkig or writig about my without ay rights to the travails of youth i the 7s ad as a music is the music itself, ad oly the best of that will survive. always ostalgic ex-mod, I had a duty to let immy decide So I m busy here eoyig myself, wadig through files of paper, for himself. press releases, reviews, letters ad photos ad also trackig hat is oe right decisio I made, that I will ot revise.

4 CoNteNts ILE PGE ILE PGE I m the Sea... 6 he Real Me... 7 Quadropheia Cut My Hair... 7 he Puk ad the Godfather... 4 I m Oe he irty obs... Helpless acer... 8 Is It i My Head? I ve Had Eough... 7 : Sea ad Sad... 9 rowed ell oy... 1 octor immy... 1 he Rock Love, Reig O er Me Pete i his home studio, March 197 His beloved echstei upright piao to his right was used to record rowed durig this time. Photo: Chris Morphet

5 he Who, 1964 L to R: Pete owshed, Keith Moo, Roger altrey ad oh Etwistle Photo: riifold Maagemet

6 6 I M HE SE Words ad Music by PEER OWNSHEN Freely *b /E b & bb b b b b 4 (: :) Sea souds w/ad lib. vocal chatig, ad lib. piao ad lyric phrases from Quadropheia. *Chord is implied by piao. & (:) ** Ca you see the real. **Recordig souds oe ad oe half steps higher tha writte due to he Real Me is played with Capo III (cocert key is C, but sog is performed i ). me, ca Œ Œ you, ca you? Œ Segue ito he Real Me. 197 (Reewed) FULOUS MUSIC L. dmiistered i the US ad CN by SPIRI ONE MUSIC (MI) o/b/o SPIRI SERVICES HOLINGS S.à.r.l., SUOLUF MUSIC ad KCO MUSIC INC., 8 Fifth veue, New York, NY 1 Iteratioal Copyright Secured ll Rights Reserved Used by Permissio

7 7 & 4 F & *Elec. Gtr. w/capo III Moderately fast q = 146 Itro: Elec. Gtr. (w/light dist.) Œ Œ *Recordig souds oe ad oe half steps higher tha writte due to capo. ( umbers relative to capo.) Œ Œ HE REL ME G G Œ Œ Words ad Music by PEER OWNSHEN Œ G G 9 & Verse 1: G Œ G & I wet back to the doc - tor, Œ to get a - oth - er shrik. Œ Œ I sit ad 1 & & tell him bout my week - ed, but he ev - Œ Œ G er be - trays what he thiks. Œ Œ G. Whoo! he Real Me (Reewed) FULOUS MUSIC L. dmiistered i the US ad CN by SPIRI ONE MUSIC (MI) o/b/o SPIRI SERVICES HOLINGS S.à.r.l., SUOLUF MUSIC ad KCO MUSIC INC., 8 Fifth veue, New York, NY 1 Iteratioal Copyright Secured ll Rights Reserved Used by Permissio.

8 8 17 & Chorus: C/. G(9)/ / ΠΠΠ&. Ca you see the real. me, doc -. tor, doc -. tor? 1 & C/. G(9)/ Π/.. Ca you see the real me, doc - tor? Whoa, doc - &... w w & & 9 & & - tor. Verse : ΠΠI wet back to my moth - ΠG er, ΠG I said, I m cra - zy ma, help me. ΠG. ΠΠG She said, he Real Me - 7 -