The mods who rocked

The mods who rocked

Archive on 4: We Were the Mods is on Radio 4 on Saturday at 8pm. Add it to your collection now.There’s only a narrow pathway between numbers 10 and 11 East Street, Brighton, but it’s a small thoroughfare with huge significance. This is the scene of a key moment in the 1979 film Quadrophenia, when existentially troubled teenage mod Jimmy, played by Phil Daniels, briefly escapes a street riot and has sex with Steph, the girl he has fixed his thwar…