Pete Townshend has once again discussed his battles with life in one of the world’s biggest rock bands as he edges towards retirement.
“The shows? I don’t like them,” he’s told Uncut. “I don’t find them fulfilling. But I’m brilliant at it. I find it incredibly easy. I drift through it. I get out the other end and the next day, somebody comes up to me and says, ‘You were fucking amazing yesterday!’.”
“It’s like being able to make a pair of shoes and knowing that you’ve got to a point that whenever you make a pair of shoes for somebody they’re going to last them for life. I don’t get particularly excited about it, but I do find it easy.”
After the best part of half a century on the road, surviving members Townshend and frontman Roger Daltrey spoke of 2014 tour dates which have continued into this year as being ‘the beginning of the long goodbye’. They’re might also be a new studio album too, a first since 2006’s ‘Endless Wire‘, before the final curtain call.