Spectacular show! Montreal, Bell Center, Nov. 20, 2012 Tuneage: “Doctor Jimmy” is a song written by Pete Townshend on The Who’s second full-scale rock opera, Quadrophenia (1973). This is the fifteenth track on the album. It concerns a boy named Jimmy, a young English Mod with four distinct personalities. Mods were known for taking amphetamines, which they called “leapers”. The song is the tale of Jimmy’s darker side, which rises to the surface under the influence of amphetamines. One of the four personalities of the album, “Doctor Jimmy,” Jimmy is willing to fight anyone who gets cross with him, take any woman regardless of how she feels about him, and leave a trail of destruction in his path. The song can be recognized by it’s heavy chorus and use of a horn section. Once the chorus begins, a horn section enters as Roger Daltrey sings in a blood-thirsty manner: What is it?/I’ll take it/Who is she?/I’ll rape it/Got a bet there?/I’ll meet it/Getting high?/You can’t beat it/Doctor Jimmy and Mister Jim/When I’m pilled/You don’t notice him/He only comes out when I drink my gin “The Rock” is an instrumental piece written by Pete Townshend of The Who, the second to last track (16th) on their double album Quadrophenia (1973). It is one of the most musically complex pieces that Townshend ever wrote for The Who, combining all of the four themes of Jimmy, the protagonist of the opera, into one six-minute musical medley. At one point during the piece, two of the themes are played …