Townshend credits Daltrey for making "Endless Wire" better

Pete Townshend might have written most of the material for the new Who album called Endless Wire, but he's the first person to admit it wasn't a one-man project. Townshend told us that a lot of the credit for how Endless Wire turned out has to go to Roger Daltrey, whose vocal performance made everything better: "What was surprising for me was how Roger fought really, really hard to sing 'Man In A Purple Dress,' to sing 'Two Thousand Years,' and to sing 'Tea & Theatre,' 'cause I had those mixed with my vocals, absolutely convinced that he would say, 'Listen, you know, the balance is wrong here, Pete -- you're singing 10 songs, and I'm only singing six.' He went into the studio, he did vocals on these tracks, and I heard them, and I said to the producer Billy Nicholls, I just said, 'He's nailing them.'"

It all worked out for the best, as Endless Wire debuted this week on the Billboard 200 album chart at Number Seven, with more than 81,000 copies changing hands.

The Who play the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas on Friday, November 10th.