Each of Jimmy’s four personalities (Jimmy is the main character of the film/opera) from Quadrophenia story is supposed to be associated with one of the four musicians in The Who. The liner notes illustrate this concept as follows:
* A tough guy, a helpless dancer. (Roger Daltrey)
* A romantic, is it me for a moment? (John Entwistle)
* A bloody lunatic, I’ll even carry your bags. (Keith Moon)
* A beggar, a hypocrite, love reign o’er me. (Pete Townshend)
Quadrophenia” fades into rain sound effects after the “Love Reign O’er Me” theme. “The Rock” however ends with a combination of the four different themes, using the “Bell Boy” theme as the chord sequence, the “Helpless Dancer” theme as the melody, the “Is It Me?” theme as a lead (played on guitar and synthesizer), and the keyboard part to “Love Reign O’er Me” as a countermelody. The whole song abruptly ends on a downbeat layered with the sound of thunder and descends into “Love Reign O’er Me” proper.
Keith He was pure, irresponsible, restless childishness. At the end of early Who concerts, as Pete Townshend smashed his guitar, Moon would kick his drums and stand on them and hurl them around the stage, and this seems a logical extension not only of the basic premise of drumming, which is to hit things, but of Moon’s drumming, which was to hit things exuberantly. “For Christ’s sake, play quieter,” the manager of a club once told Moon. To which Moon replied, “I can’t play quiet, I’m a rock drummer.”
Most rock drummers, even very good and inventive ones, are timekeepers. There is a space for a fill or a roll at the end of a musical phrase, but the beat has primacy over the curlicues. In a regular 4/4 bar.
Keith Moon ripped all this up. There is no time-out in his drumming, because there is no time-in. It is all fun stuff. The first principle of Moon’s drumming was that drummers do not exist to keep the beat. He did keep the beat, and very well, but he did it by every method except the traditional one. Drumming is repetition, as is rock music generally, and Moon clearly found repetition dull. So he played the drums like no one else—and not even like himself. No two bars of Moon’s playing ever sound the same; he is in revolt against consistences.
Queen's Roger Taylor Has Never Enjoyed His Drum Solos - Queen drummer Roger Taylor's exacting approach to percussion was apparent to Brian May from before the pair got into their very first jam session. (iHeart.com. Virgin Radio - YouTube)
There was more to his back catalogue than Zeppelin backbeats. He later admitted that The Who’s Keith Moon was instrumental for his musical education.Roger Taylor was the muscle of the outfit. Seated at the back of the stage, Taylor brought raw grit to the band, ploughing through the cymbals like an assassin working through the skull of its latest victim. (Faroutmagazine)
In the latest edition of Queen's retrospective YouTube series 'Queen The Greatest,' May recalled the care Taylor took when loading his drums into their practice space, setting them up and doing something May had never seen before — he was tapping each drum head, began to test every single element, and then turning a bolt with a key. May asked what Taylor was doing. "He said, I'm tuning the drums,' and I went, 'Oh, really? You tune drums?' because the drummers that I'd worked with up to that time just basically put the drums down and hit them."
