(and corporate assimilation of the rock and roll) I loved this little passage from the latest diary entry at Pete Townshend’s website, detailing a txt msg exchange between Townshend and Bob Geldof about Live 8:

“While we [Roger Daltrey and PT] rehearsed in London for the Samsung event, Bob Geldof sent me a mobile text message in teenage-speak (he lives in a house full of young women so he can speak the lingo better than I). It said ‘R U doin Live8? LOL Bob g’. I found myself thinking that he should know, surely. I replied ‘RH 4 NY charity gig. Will talk 2 Rog. Later. PT’ This seemed very teenaged to me, and I was quite proud of my almost incomprehensible texting.”

Bloody diamond old geezer.