The Pop Corporation

Roger Daltrey has been asked if The Who are making music for a new LP. He’s said “what’s the point?” and, honestly, where’s the lie? There’s not many fizzing with excitement at the prospect of a new album from Daltrey and Townshend, is there? No harm like.

He said: “What’s the point? What’s the point of records? We released an album four years ago and it did nothing.”

He continued: “It’s a great album too, but there isn’t the interest out there for new music these days. People want to hear the old music. I don’t know why, but that’s the fact.”

Now, there’ll be die-hard fans of The ‘Oo, who will have loved it no doubt. It didn’t set the world of fire though, even though it had some classic Townshend zingers tucked away in there.

Daltrey, forever opening his mouth like a classic rock curmudgeon, carried on: “we’ve got quite a lot of young people in our audience these days. It’s quite interesting that they’re picking up on our music. But record companies, they just don’t do the same job as they used to.”

When you get to a certain age, it’s everyone else’s fault intit? It’s quite comforting in a way. Good ol’ crotchety classic rock dads.