Before Tommy, or even A Quick One, While He’s Away, Pete Townshend of The Who toyed with writing a rock opera named Quads. It was set more than three decades in the future, and the premise was that parents could choose the gender of their children through genetic engineering. In this family, four girls are requested, but the […]
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