A Quadrophenia documentary will apparently premiere at a UK film festival next month. I'm not finding much more about it than can be read at the link below. Pete and Roger apparently cooperated with the filmmakers, but it doesn't appear to be a Who production. Hopefully this will eventually be available on DVD, and will provide actual substance than stories about what drugs were being used by whom.
(Note that the Keith Moon/Cow Palace story will apparently morph again to where it will be elephant tranquilizers that did Keith in that night--Pete had previously claimed it was monkey tranquilizers. Either way, Tony Fletcher's far more reliable Moon biography states that the drug in question was, in fact, angel dust, While perhaps the only worthwhile use for PCP was as an animal anesthetic, it's unclear how widespread it was used by vererinary purposes, it's not used for that at all anymore. But it makes a better story to say that Keith Moon took gorilla tranquilizers, and an even better story that that to say he took elephant tranquilizers. The bottom line is that I hope that this isn't one of those lurid, "Behind The Music"-style documentaries.)
http://sheffdocfest.com/films/show/5262Quote:
Pete Townshend leads us on a trip back to the early 1970s, and the making of the rock opera Quadrophenia. Featuring Jimmy the Mod, a double schizophrenic, reflecting the personalities of all four Who members, the making of the album was fraught, as Roger Daltry, and other contemporaries vividly testify. A workaholic focused with laser intensity on his vision, Townshend’s stress levels spiked when his producer’s heroin habit became all consuming. A range of fascinating anecdotes help bring to life the album’s subject: the mod era of the early 1960s, where style prevailed over substance. The project’s completion hardly brought the relief it should have, as the band immediately set off on a disastrous American tour, featuring Keith Moon on elephant tranquilizers. Nevertheless, Quadrophenia was critically acclaimed, and Townshend looks back with pride: “What is interesting about this album was it kind of worked,” he says. “We never really ever made a truly great album again.”
I would thought by now that it would have been dinosaur tranquilizers that he'd taken.