Roger Daltrey
Roger Daltrey
Roger Harry Daltrey, CBEis an English singer and actor. In a music career spanning more than 50 years, Daltrey came to prominence in the mid 1960s as the founder and lead singer of the English rock band the Who, which released fourteen singles that entered the Top 10 charts in the United Kingdom during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, including "I Can't Explain", "My Generation", "Substitute", "I'm a Boy", "Happy Jack", "Pictures of Lily", "Pinball Wizard", "Won't Get Fooled Again",...
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth1 March 1944
CityLondon, England
All you could do was to see them. We were backstage when the Beatles were on and you could just about hear a noise. It was just literally screaming.
Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.
You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.
I hope I die before I get old.
I'm not always the most diplomatic person.
Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out.
We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.
The Who would never have been successful without two special people, Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp
I'm realistic about my age and realistic about the fact that there's an awful lot less in front of me than there is behind me. I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.
I was making guitars and I was a sheet metal worker and if you ever see sheet metal workers' hands, you've never seen so many cuts in your life.
There is certainly more in the future now than back in 1964.
I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just because it's a rural area, it gets forgotten.
I wanted to be in a band that shared ideas and were in it together.
Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.