Pete on Dr. Jimmy and the rape thing

        Here's part of an interview with Pete from "Hit Parader" magazine 
     (June 1975, p.42) in which he discusses "Dr. Jimmy."
     
        "And this is why 'Quadrophenia' is going to be the last album of 
     this type.  I found it very, very hypocritical to write a song like 
     'Doctor Jimmy.'  I'm not different from the way I was when I was young 
     - I feel all the same things - but I was sort of writing about 
     somebody else."
        "Like that part where he says, 'What is it.  I'll take it.  Who is 
     she.  I'll rape it.'  That's really the way I see Keith Moon in his 
     most bravado sort of states of mind.  It's not necessarily the way I 
     feel.  It's just something I can identify with, like sitting and 
     watching a movie."
     
        Also strange is that the 2 other times I can recall where "rape" 
     come up in Pete's songs, the rape is directed toward men not women.
     In "We're Not Gonna Take It," Tommy's followers threaten him with rape 
     and in "Riot In The Female Jail,"  an obscure comic demo available on 
     some boots (thanx Pamela!), the male narrator says (as best as I can 
     remember) "I'm going to run over to the gates, so I can be the first 
     one to be raped."
     
                                -Respectfully,
     
                                 Brian