How did you and Roger Daltrey ultimately decide to play the Super Bowl halftime show?
We thought about it quite hard. I think Roger was doubtful that we should do it this year. We were going to play at Coachella, the New Orleans Jazz Festival, we had all kinds of things planned, so I persuaded Roger we should do the Super Bowl to kick those events off. And then I decided that I couldn’t do that work later this year because I had to continue to write. Q. Most bands that play the Super Bowl use it as a platform to announce other projects. The only two shows Roger and I are committed to together so far are the Super Bowl and then a concert version of “Quadrophenia” at Royal Albert Hall in March [for the Teenage Cancer Trust]. My hearing trouble makes it quite difficult for me to work in a studio for long periods of time. I have to be quite careful not to work too much or not to tour too much. This show, for us, is an example of what he and I can do together, waving the Who flag, carrying the flag for the boomer generation, just as Paul McCartney, Tom Petty and the Stones h
