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
We lived the life with Keith Moon. It was all Spinal Tap magnified a thousand times.
I've never wanted to be anyone other than who I am.
I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.
First of all, you have to understand that I'm like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice.
We tend to think of age only in time, but I don't think it has much to do with time at all there's a whole load of other things. I've met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.
Rock n' roll seems to have changed society much more than any politician, I think it really has.
I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.
I enjoy singing; being in touch with something that is inside of me.
I never understood that if you sweat as much as I used to every night, you drain your body of salts. So I got very, very, seriously ill. I got to the stage where I was almost hospitalized with serious problems.
Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.
My place, your place, slapped face, rat race.
I'm not always the most diplomatic person.
Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out.
I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can't sing.