“I don’t really want to be a Pop Star, believe it or not. I’d like to have successful records, but that’s it. And I’d very much like never to do any more interviews or anything,” said Roger Daltrey.

“Well, you know, the occasional one. I suppose it’s the price you have to pay.”

Yes. ButRoger also has an ulterior motive in talking to us, and that’s to answer Pete Townshend’s attack on the Who, carried in a recent CREEM article.

The interview, though, comes at an appropriate juncture. Sessions for the new Who album, The Who By Numbers, have just finished, and after our rap Daltrey will go off to hear the final mixes.

“I’m really pleased with it,” he says. “One song particularly, called ‘Imagin-! ary Man’ I think is the best song Pete’s ever written. There’s a few mysteries in there, but it’ll be a good album.