It wasn't just about flashing lights and pinball machines blowing up and things like that. It was about using encores, bringing back the good songs and using techniques that I knew about from rock performance.

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What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal...

What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal...

What we learned quite early on is what was really important to early British pop...

What we learned quite early on is what was really important to early British pop...

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

It's like the mod thing is happening again.

It's like the mod thing is happening again.

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A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend...

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I think I probably would have enjoyed to keep my own private pain out of...

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I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20...

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Some of our early work was two minutes twenty when it actually came out on...

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Everything that I had done creatively related to two or three incidents that happened to...

As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine...

As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine...

Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved...

Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved...

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What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s...

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What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If...

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I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who...

I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And...

I know how it feels to be a woman because I am a woman. And...

He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would...

He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would...

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type...

I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type...

What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties...

What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties...

Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and...

Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and...

But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which...

But what was interesting about what the Who did is that we took things which...