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I hate to say "never" but I think it's impossible really. Because we were inventing it as we went along. And it was a blank canvas, and we could paint in very broad brushstrokes. And the media outlets were very limited, so you only had to make some kind of impact and meet people and make connections and the whole thing became self-perpetuatin'. I know there's this whole thing with social media that i don't really understand, it's beyond me, but it seems to me like a lot of good music gets lost in it. Whereas in our time, you had to buy an album, you had to buy 10-12 tracks, and you might have only liked 4 of them, and I always found that some of the songs I didn't like initially ended up after a few plays being my favourite songs. And the ones I bought the album for int eh first place became my least favourite! I think there's something about the internet now, that because you can download just a few tracks, that something gets lost. And that's why I'm still a great proponent of vinyl, because not only does it sound better, but as an artistic format, the album cover, the scale of it, the shape of it, it's the perfect artistic statement. And they sound so much better, there's no doubt about it. And it becomes more personal because if you scratch it, there's a scratch there from you. SO there are these things on vinyl that will never live on in digital. The coffee stains on the cover.

Wow. It's almost, you could almost touch the hole through the walls of the backstage. It was extraordinary, absolutely an extraordinary time. Of course it's in those times of incredible stress the adrenaline kicks in overdrive, and people are dazed, and it kind of brings out the best in humanity. And I was really nervous, you know, I thought "what are we going to play" and Pete said "Let's just play what we always play" and thank god he was right. We went out and played songs that were defiant, not celebratin' anything, but like we're not going away, we're here, and I still find it emotional now, thinking bout it. It was a very roller coaster to be onstage looking at the audience. I don't know if you saw it on the TV, I never saw it on TV, but quite a lot of the front row, there were young children, 8, 9, 10, and they were wearing their father's helmet who were killed in the twin towers. It was so hard to look at it. But they all reacted so positively to the music that you thought "all of this evil, wherever it comes from in the world, music will overcome it, good music, and being upfront with people and talking to people and getting rid of all the stuff in between." When you come face to face with good music. It was an amazing, amazing experience. And i hope I don't ever have to do another one.

Not at the moment. Obviously there will hopefully be one - we're calling this tour now as the Beginning of the Long Goodbye, and we don't know how long that goodbye will be. But we have to be realistic about the years we're in. After John went, I realized we are all in the drop zone after 50-odd. This is the beginning of the long Goodbye, because we might never end it, and we might drop onstage, if we get that lucky! But we are also in the process of making more music on record. Pete's making some fabulous music. So we've got a lot going on, we're going to space it out and enjoy ourselves, we want to make sure that what we do is quality. So it will happen, but I don't know when. But sometime, in the future.

I wouldn't do that to them, hehehe. No, with friends, private things you keep private. And I haven't really got any to be honest with you. Everything they've done in their lives have been so public, it's ridiculous!

Ooh, that's a hard one. I haven't got a favourite. We were just so lucky to find each other. That's a bit of our lives, it's kind of miraculous, that 4 so different people, such individuals, and we happened to end up in a band together it's RIDICULOUS. And I find that bit about our journey absolutely miraculous. There were some bad times, every time I look at photographs from that period or that Pete was having a terrible time on the road, we were always laughing, we were always in fits of hysterics in photographs. We had a lot of fun, a lot of fun. It was hard, hard work. It's not easy work. People that come with us on the road that come with us on the road, they usually wear out within 2 weeks. In the old days we used to play 13 days in 2 weeks. But we seem to have that energy and that chemistry and supporting each other. It was a very very special time.

Well, super important in the 20's. Well, just buying things. Just having the ability to go and buy a Ferrari, or buy a house. I got to the bit in my life, and I suppose it comes to everybody who's successful, there really isn't anything I ever want anymore. I have my car and my house and things, but I've become a non-consumer. It's kind of weird! There's nothing I want! Really! I just love meeting people, I love friendships, I love dinner parties and being with people. That's what i enjoy. I get more reward from the charity work and the singin', and that's all I want from life, really. And obviously being with the family, and I've been lucky to have a really good, close family.

Well, the project is a project i've been working on now for 25 years. And I was very close to gettin' the film that I wanted made, way back in, wait, 15 years now. I was very close to having the script I wanted. The film I wanted to make and everybody said "Oh I can see the potential" but I don't know if they realized that film isn't real life, a film script has to speak in its own language, and generally, biopics are generally run of the mill and boring. It would be absolutely criminal to make a film about Keith that was ever run of the mill and boring. So I had to wait all this time so I could buy back the original script that i had written, in partnership with a company called Icon that is Mel Gibson's company, they didn't like the script and i thought 60% of it was correct, and it was written by a guy named John Law, and this script was the first draft. John Law is a NY times theater critic, and he wrote a film called Prick Up Your Ears, and so it's a very mindful film. It's quite a piece. Not just to do with the antics. Because a lot of people don't realize that when you write down some of the things that Keith used to do on the page, that we all used to laugh at back in the day, it feels awful - it could be a really nasty piece of work. A lot of his humor came out of other people's discomfort. I was trying to show his psychology and what drove him. he was self-educated way beyond any schooling he had, he was INCREDIBLY intelligent, an incredible raconteur and a fabulous mimic, but a terrible actor. All kinds of dichotomy. Every facet of his character was extreme. He could be the most generous, the most selfish. I want it to be drama, this film. What I consider to be great drama, Shakespearean. Because Moon deserves it, because he was! And no, certainly not a cameo, I mean, where would I fit in? Hahaha! It's not about The Who, it's going to be about Keith, and one of those things is that you can't re-create The Who, you have to tell the story through people's eyes, so obviously The Who will be in it, but it's all about perspective, and it won't ever be people looking at the Who through a crowd perspective.