Ever since BBC4 showed the documentary 'Quadrophenia...... Can You See The Real Me '..... about the making of The Who's album and followed it with a showing of the actual movie last week , I've been reminiscing about my youth . From the age of thirteen I was a Mod and obsessed about the 60's . it's music fashion , movies , I was hooked ! My Bible was Richard Barnes book ' Mods! ' which I studied religiously . When Quadrophenia came out in the cinemas in 79 I remember going to see it with my best friend Fitz - a fellow Modette . We were two 14 year old convent girls sneeking in to see an 18 cert movie which was being double billed with ' Scum ' that particular day ,we couldn't believe our luck ! It's no secret that I started dating Mr Doubleu 29 years ago because he got himself a Lambretta , I thought I'd died and gone to heaven on the back of that thing- fickle me ! I'm sorry but I'm going to indulge myself a whole lot more and run a couple of video clips ;
This scene cracks me up !
Anyway , the day after my Mod fix I happened to come across one of those somewhat annoying Top Of The Pops oldies but goodies shows . I was waiting for Wimbledon to come on but thought I'd hang in there as it was showing tunes from 69 . Most were dire but they did dish this one up . Don't laugh , but back in the day I really wanted to be that girl in the song with the glamourous life who'd come from the back streets of Naples . I myself came from the back streets of Rusholme , Manchester, but I was well classy smoking my Gauloises cigerettes , or so I thought !
O.K. Humour me one last time . In 1974 there was a song out by Terry Jacks called ' Seasons in the Sun ' and as a little girl the lyrics used to make me sad , but in a good way because I really liked the song !? I'm not going to show you that one but here's the original version 'Le Moribond '[which means the dying man] written by Belgian singer/songwriter Jacques Brel .
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