What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concert, it's in response again to a function which is happening out there on the street.

It's the singer not the song that makes the music move along.

Backstage, I get sleepy, and want to curl up and snooze. I never get nervous, whatever the event. I feel quite detached until I walk on stage, and then some gear inside me clicks and off I go like a wind up doll.

Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.

Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired.

The Who got paid 4000 pounds during those days, but we always smashed our equipment that cost more than 5000 pounds.

Looking back, I don't know why we needed it to be quite so loud all the time.