Set against the soundtrack of The Who's high-concept album "Quadrophenia", Phil Daniels plays working-class Jimmy Cooper, a drug-using Mod who hates his job and is taken the wrong way by his parents.

However, Liam Gallagher didn’t invent the parka’s countercultural cool; that credit belongs to the scooter-riding rebels of 1979’s Quadrophenia, who turned surplus military fishtail ...