Uncut interviewing Roger Daltry, 2002: “Thirty years on, #RogerDaltrey, too, has plenty to say about the purity of the singles aesthetic in the age of Pop Idol. “I made some rude remarks recently about Simon Cowell in an interview,” he guffaws, “but I’ve changed my opinion of him because you need to have a #BlandPeriod so that all these young groups will get pissed off and start coming through.
You can see it happening now with a lot of the new groups, The Coral and all that lot: they’re saying, ‘We’ve had enough of this shit, let’s get out and make some noise!’ So thank you very much, Simon Cowell, you did it, mate!
Make no bones about it, shit like #PopIdol and #AmericanIdol will lead to the creation of the next #punk. The seeds are already out there. It’s great!”
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