Most recently, the 1973 double disc Quadrophenia received a symphonic ... the 1969 "rock opera" that set the standard for that oft-maligned and misunderstood art form: the concept album.

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Set against the soundtrack of The Who's high-concept album "Quadrophenia", Phil Daniels plays working-class Jimmy Cooper, a drug-using Mod who hates his job and is taken the wrong way by his parents.

But in 1973 Quadrophenia was an album that almost never was. Beset by money problems, a studio in construction, heroin-taking managers, a lunatic drummer and a culture of heavy drinking ...