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Album Review //Tommy// was first. The Who 1969 opera legitimized the improbable union of rock abandon and extended narrative, and marked guitarist Pete Townshend's great leap forward as a composer and as his band's conceptual general. But [|//Quadrophenia//], released in 1973, was a superior tale with more-taut songwriting; it was grounded in Townshend's memories of growing up angry, anguished and mod in the early Sixties, and produced with the panoramic tension of Who's Next //Tommy// was precedent; //Quadrophenia// was coherent spectacle. At the time, Roger Daltrey claimed his vocals were too low in the mix. In this remastered edition, when he hits the "Out of my brain" chorus over Keith Moon's runaway drum rolls and John Entwistle's thunderclap bass in "5:15," you clearly hear the singer - and his lyricist - going off the rails. //Quadrophenia// was the redemption of Townshend's long-form dreams after the collapse of his intended //Tommy// follow-up, the multimedia beast //Lifehouse//. Like his deaf, dumb and blind kid in //Tommy//, Townshend's scooter boy Jimmy (a composite of the four personalities in the Who) finds identity, then disappointment in cult life: the top-dog mod reduced to carrying tourists' bags in "Bell Boy." There is rebirth, too: the final, magisterial cleansing of "Love Reign O'er Me." But where Townshend wrote parts of //Tommy// in too-literal operatic form, he edited //Quadrophenia// with a film director's hand, evident in the two CDs of his original demos included in this box set. The tapes are fascinating for their detailed home-studio arrangements; the band replicated most of them with the appropriate fury. The demos also reveal what Townshend left out on the way to the '73 double LP, such as the ill-fitting verse about rock-star anxiety in "The Real Me" and a run of numbers in the first half - the teen-crush waltz "You Came Back" and an early character sketch, "Joker James" – that would have slowed down the action. Instead, on the LP, Townshend cut right from the kitchen-table revolt of "Cut My Hair" to the real generations' warfare in "The Punk and the Godfather." It still sounds like the right decision. Like the subtitle here says, you get the work's birth in full, including an epic prose account by Townshend. But //Quadrophenia//, as delivered the first time, is still one of his, and the Who's, greatest albums – and the better opera - They have great music - Their great people -And they like money Biography-

Early Life- (born September 27, 1982), better known by his stage name **Lil Wayne**, or **Weezy**, is an American rapper At the age of nine, Lil Wayne joined Cash Money Records as the youngest member of the label, and half of the duo, The B.G'z with B.G.. In 1997, Lil Wayne joined the group Hot Boys, which also included rappersJunvile,B.G, and Young Turk. Hot Boys debuted with Get It How U Live! that year. Lil Wayne gained most of his success with the group's major selling album Guerllia Warfare, released in 1999. Also in 1999, Lil Wayne released his Platinum debut album Tha Block Is Hot, selling over one million copies in the U.S. Although his next two albums Lights Out (2000) and 500Degreez (2002) were not as successful (only reaching Gold status), Lil Wayne reached higher popularity in 2004 with Tha Carter, which included the single "Go D.J[|.]" Wayne also appeared on the Destiny's Child top ten single "Solider" that year. In 2005, the sequel to //Tha Carter//, Tha Carter2, was released. In 2006 and 2007, Lil Wayne released several mixtapes and appeared on several popular rap and R&B singles. His most successful album,Tha Carter3 was released in 2008 and sold over 1 million copies in the U.S. its first week of release. It included the number-one single "Lollipop" and won the Grammy Awards for Best Rap Album

Music Career- 1- Carter joined the Hot Boys along with rappers Junevile, B.G. 2- At age 15, Carter was the youngest member at that time. 3-Hot Boys' debut album //Get It How U Live!// was released the same year, followed in 1999 by the group's major-label debut //[|4-Guerrilla Warfare]//,[|[][|3][|]] which reached No. 1 on the //Billboard// magazine Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and No. 5- on the //Billboard// 200.[|[][|10][|]] During their career, the Hot Boys had two charting singles, "[|We on Fire]" from //Get It How U Live!// 6-"I Need a Hot Girl" from //Guerrilla Warfare//.[|[][|11][|]] Carter was also featured on Juvenile's single "[|Back That Azz Up]", 7- which reached No. 18 on the //Billboard// Hot 100 and No. 5 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks.[|[][|12][|]] //Let 'Em Burn//, a 8-compilation album of unreleased tracks recorded during 1999 and 2000, came out in 2003, several years after the group 9-disbanded.[|[][|13][|]] It reached No. 3 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and No. 14 on the //Billboard// 200.[|[][|10][|]] 10-Carter's debut solo album //[|Tha Block Is Hot]//at age 17 featured significant contributions from the Hot Boys and was certified platinum,. TV & Film Career- 1-Lil Wayne was a guest debater going up against [|Skip Bayless] on the "1st & 10" 2-segment on the January 6, 2009 edition of //[|ESPN First Take]//. 3-On February 10, 2009 he also appeared on ESPN's [|Around the Horn] and beat out veterans 4-fellow New Orleanian [|Michael Smith] to win that show's episode 5-Prior to the 2009 Grammy Awards, Wayne was featured in an interview with [|Katie Couric]. Personal Life-1-Lil Wayne has four children2-His first child, daughter Reginae, was born when he was 15 3-to his high school sweetheart [|Antonia "Toya" Carter] 4-Wayne and Johnson married on Valentine's Day of 2004 and divorced in 2006 5-Internet rumours started circulating in August 2008 that Wayne's daughter had died in a car crash