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Quadrophenia The Album Live
Cliffs Pavilion, Southend on Sea
19th October 2018
Interview with Doug Freeman HERE!
Concept Concerts Ltd are very excited to announce that Quadrophenia - the album, LIVE! Is set to tour theatres across the UK & Ireland throughout 2018 & 2019.

This storming show pays tribute to the emotive music of The Who, the biggest-selling and most powerful band in the world for decades. Produced specifically for the stage and appealing to all generations, with full-on sound effects as used on the original album and state-of-the-art lighting to enhance the performance.

The Goldhawks, a world-class, eight-piece band, fronted by Doug Freeman who is widely regarded as the world's greatest ever live tribute to Roger Daltrey, faithfully recreates the power, tension and visceral emotion of the music backed by a large screen showing bespoke film, archive footage and visual effects throughout the show.
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This show captures a tremendous piece of Mod musical history for all ages to experience today and a chance for all who were or are still part of the phenomenal Mod movement to relive its glory. But don't be mistaken, it's also about the angst of growing up in this day and age.
To send you home on an even bigger high there are a few all-time classic Who hits to close the show!
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www.quadropheniatribute.com/
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Doug Freeman & The Goldhawks
Eight piece band The Goldhawks are fronted by Doug Freeman. As a boy Doug was taken along by older friends to see The Who in Manchester. That moment changed his life. Later, upon 'leaving' college Doug secured recording and publishing deals and moved to London. His band began its career with a residency at the world-famous Marquee Club in London, (where The Who had a residency in the 60s)  attracting sell-out crowds. After touring continuously for several years he had his stage-craft down to a fine art, packing out and rocking venues all over the UK and Europe with blistering, five star review, live performances. Every publication at the time - Melody Maker, Sounds, Kerrang! NME would all extol his performances often exclaiming,
“Doug Freeman is Bruce Springsteen meets The Who!”'

In the mid-90s he formed the highly-lauded tribute band 'Who's Who', taking it to dizzy heights in record time. He left that band at its pinnacle to begin a stint as an entrepreneur but the yearning to perform The Who's music and to get out of small town Hertfordshire to tour again sees him return with another world-class live band to wake up the nation! Thus the theatre show 'Quadrophenia - the album LIVE!' was born.

Reviews and Testimonials
“Absolutely first class ……   Having toured with The Who for ten years I can safely say that this band is the next best thing and the closest you will ever get to the real thing……”  Wolfy Foxlow, (close friend of Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey)
“Brilliant, a triumph for rock history. Well deserved standing ovation at the end.” Bedford Today

Quadrophenia The Album
Released over 40 years ago in October 1973, The Who's second rock opera, ‘Quadrophenia’ was Pete Townshend's homage to a pivotal moment in British youth culture. The album tells the story of Jimmy, a Mod, by chronicling his dissatisfaction with life, work, love, home, and family life. It served as an ode to teenage angst and counterculture rebellion, as well as a criticism of the British class, economic and educational systems. Ultimately, ‘Quadrophenia,’ told the story of the Who's first fans in the band's earliest days, playing pubs and clubs in and around London in the ‘60s.

Quadrophenia is 90 minutes of the Who at its very best. "The reason why the album is so important to me is that I think it's the Who's last great album, really," Townshend told Billboard Magazine in 2011.

What makes it a great work isn't the production or the sound effects but the bones of the songs: the music and the lyrics.
The old adage "write what you know" is what makes the narrative work so well: Townshend and The Who knew and cared about kids just like Jimmy. You don't need to be clued up on the history of the Mods and Rockers to enjoy the album because at its core, Quadrophenia which peaked at No. 2 on the UK and USA charts, is just about teenage confusion, conflict and frustration.
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"Quadrophenia tells a universal story. 'Mod' is a shorter word for young, beautiful and stupid' - we've all been there."
Pete Townshshend, The Who

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