On 25 January 2013, he gave an interview to John Wilson on the BBC Radio 4 arts programme "Front Row". He discussed his cancer and said doctors had told him he had nine or ten months to live. He also talked about his "farewell tour" of the UK set for March and how his diagnosis had made him feel "vividly alive". After the tour was over, he announced he would spend his final days recording a farewell album with the Who's lead singer Roger Daltrey. The album, "Going Back Home", was released in March 2014. "I thought that was going to be the last thing I ever did", he later told BBC News entertainment correspondent Colin Paterson in October 2014.