The Who ’s Pete Townshend admitted in a new interview that he “never really got into Led Zeppelin ” at the height of the latter act’s fame, adding, “The only heavy metal I really listened to was AC/DC .”

Townshend was a guest on the YouTube channel Classic Album Review , where host Barry Robinson asked the guitarist if he thought The Who were early progenitors of heavy metal.

“No, I don’t necessarily think so,” responded Townshend (as transcribed by Blabbermouth ). “I think [our 1970 live album] Live At Leeds is probably as explosive as it got. But, meanwhile, we were still doing… Like, for example, at Woodstock, we played a good chunk of Tommy and then we played some heavy stuff, as well. We did both.”

He continued, “The only heavy metal I really listened to was AC/DC,” Pete admitted. “And I never really got into Led Zeppelin, which is strange because today I’ve recently been trying to get Jimmy Page to have lunch with me.…