I wanted to create a visual clue to the fact that the old rock star is somebody like a mixture of artists from the late '60s/early '70s, what we call "progressive" rock artists. I used a couple of connections: the hang glider the scene at the opening is like the end of Ken Russell's film of Tommy. How does this novel connect to Tommy ? Does it? Were you doing that on purpose? I did notice, as I was going through this book, that there are some parallels between The Age of Anxiety and say, Tommy, your rock opera. What good popular music does is allow you, as the listener, to draw the conclusion and write the ending. We try not to plot things, we try not to create twists, we try not to close the story for you. I must quickly say that, in music, we try not to do that. This is my first novel and it's the first time I've tried to properly plot something. I suppose what I was doing was trying to create an interwoven, flowing plot that had more than one strand. It's an interesting way to finish that book that way, in this time. By the end, you aren't sure if he's being completely honest. The narrator is sort of given to be unreliable. I certainly don't expect to be accused of anything like that myself. In a sense, it does jack into the current #MeToo movement, but. Whether or not this accusation is true is left to the reader to decide. I started this book in 2008, before the #MeToo movement kicked off. The narrator is accused by somebody that's close to him of the possibility that he has raped somebody. I'm a man in my 70s who occasionally gets asked on a date by a younger woman. So I'm familiar with that world I'm familiar with the machinery of it. I'm in the music business, coming up to 75 years old, and I'm surrounded by young people. Why would I do that? Well, it's where I am. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Age of Anxiety Author Pete Townshend
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