ROCK ON!

PHIL DANIELS plays a restless London youth in the 1979 British movie Quadrophenia, based on the Who's rock opera - but oddly, the chaotic production was not a musical, and the Who does not even appear in it! The lead was supposed to go to JOHN LYDON - better known as Johnny Rotten of notorious punk band the Sex Pistols - but the film's distributors thought he was too dicey a personality to insure. Nevertheless, production did not go smoothly. The Who's legendary drummer, KEITH MOON, died during filming, and a brawl scene in the seaside city of Brighton used two real- life rival gangs, resulting in a "real riot - health and safety didn't come into it," according to Daniels.

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PHIL DANIELS plays a restless London youth in the 1979 British movie Quadrophenia, based on the Who's rock opera — but oddly, the chaotic production was not a musical, and the Who does not even appear in