Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.

Link is a quiet man to meet- easy and courteous. His music, though, betrays that deep inside he gets very very mean very often. I remember being made very uneasy the first time I heard Rumble , and yet very excited by the guitar sound. And his voice! He sounds like a cross between Jagger and Van Morrison, even sometimes like Robbie Robertson. We met him in New York in 1970 while recording Who's Next.... this later inspired the b-side Wasp Man, a tune we dedicated to Link Wray.

Can't pretend that growin' older never hurts.

I don't need to fight / To prove I'm right / I don't need to be forgiven

But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which were happening in the pop genre and represent them to people so that they see them in a new way. I think the best example is Andy Warhol's work, the image of Marilyn Monroe or the Campbell's soup can.

Punk rock was the tsunami that threatened to drown us all in 1977.

We've got to fool the fools, and plan the plans. We must rule the rules, got to stand the stands.