“I Am The Sea” by The Who

"I Am the Sea" belongs to Quadrophenia, the Who's 1973 double album and their third rock opera, the tale of a young mod named Jimmy scrambling for some sense of his own worth across London and Brighton in 1965. Pete Townshend wrote it, as he wrote every song on the record, the only Who album that is his alone.

Here Townshend plays electric guitar, keyboards and even cello, John Entwistle handles bass and horn, Keith Moon drums and percussion, and Roger Daltrey takes the lead vocal with Townshend and Entwistle behind him. The Who produced it themselves, with Kit Lambert and Townshend as co-producers and Ron Nevison engineering, and the album was cut on Ronnie Lane's Mobile Studio, since the band's own new studio wasn't finished. The band's relationship with Lambert, their manager, fell apart for good during those sessions.

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