The Who veteran Roger Daltrey has had a go at young Pete Doherty, according to The Sunday Mirror, and he also had a dig at old Paul McCartney. Daltrey praised current buzz bands Kaiser Chiefs and Arctic Monkeys, but criticised Doherty for wasting his life. "It's a waste of a life really, because he's got talent. He seems to be feeding off it, now he's become infamous for his drug addiction he seems to think 'that's what I do so I've got to do it', it's very sad."
On McCartney he said: "Paul acts like what is expected of him, I find it very strange, but it's how he deals with his life. Everything, though, becomes the Paul McCartney show." On the positive side, however, he praised Mick Jagger, calling him "just remarkable. The amount of energy he has is amazing."
He also had some words to say on Who bandmate Pete Townshend, following his arrest back 2003. As you may remember, Townshend was charged by police after he accessed a child pornography site, but he insisted he only accessed it as research for the book he was writing. Daltrey says "He's fucking angry about what happened to him. Make no mistake about it; it will come out in his music."
On their work on a new Who album. Daltrey added: "I don't want to stop and I don't think Pete does. We're at the pinnacle of our decline."