The Who: Best material is still to come

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The Who's Roger Daltrey has claimed that the band's best material will come in their later years.

Talking about the progress of their follow-up to 2006's Endless Wire, the singer argued that songwriter Pete Townshend was getting better with age.

Daltrey told The Rock Radio: "At the moment Pete's writing new material. I haven't heard anything.

"He's told me some of the ideas which sound really intriguing again, and as usual from Pete, it's never dull.

"It's always these wonderful kinds of stories that go along with it. It's always exciting when he talks about where he is and the spaces he's in when he's writing his music.

"I've always been of the opinion that he will write some of his best work when he's an older man, so I'm still living in hope."