Roger Daltrey said that rock had reached a dead end and most pop was meaningless

One of rock’s veterans has claimed that the gig is over: only rappers have anything to say now.

Roger Daltrey, 72, the singer with the groundbreaking British band the Who, said he was saddened that rock had “reached a dead end”.

In an interview with The Times Magazine, conducted as the band played the Desert Trip “festival to end all festivals” in California, Daltrey suggested that because of his band’s innate aggression they still had a tang of danger.

The singer was known in his younger days for using his fists. He once punched his guitarist Pete Townshend so hard that he claimed it had made him go bald. But those days are over.

“The sadness for me is that rock has reached a