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CHAPTER: THE GRAPHICS

Before the curious Who fan could get home and tuck into the music enclosed, he or she had the bus ride back from the shop, upon which the Quadrophenia graphics in all their explanatory glory could be perused.

Beginning with the front cover, we are presented with an artful, subtle, black-and-white photograph generated from an idea by Roger and taken by Graham Hughes, Roger’s cousin. Pictured is a twenty-year-old lad called Terry “Chad” Kennett—he’s since died, in 2011—whom Pete had spotted in a pub on Thessaly Road near the studio and thought might be a suitable Jimmy, the protagonist of his Mod coming-of-age saga. Kennett turned out to be a colorful

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