Pete Townshend: ‘Fans are irritated I won’t just play Who hits till I die’

The rocker on turning his mod classic Quadrophenia into a ballet, how in the Sixties he ‘wanted people to think I was gay’ and why, at nearly 80, he no longer cares about success

Pete Townshend and Rachel Fuller talked to Will Hodgkinson about the upcoming new ballet based on his Quadrophenia album.