Quadrophenia

Watching this again the parallels with Saturday Night Fever are startling, as I said earlier. And now I'm wondering if the connection isn't more direct.

Saturday Night Fever was based on a 1976 article by Nik Cohn, 'Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night'. He said at the time it was journalism, but 20 years later he admitted it was fictional, based in Shepherd's Bush mods.

Was it even more fictional than that? Quadrophenia came out three years later. However Quadrophenia the rock opera came out in 1973. Did Cohn just lift the basics of the story and transplant it to disco era New York?

Whatever, there are some good rural bits in the movie as they go to and from Brighton, it wouldn't have taken much to put a few cows in one of the fields. Just ordinary ones would have been fine, they wouldn't have had to be customised mod cows with loads of wing mirrors sticking out. But no.

No cows.