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
I don't over-sing anymore, which I used to suffer from terribly because I couldn't hear myself.
I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it.
You can do too much and oversell your market.
My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention.
The Who would never have been successful without two special people, Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp
Imagine if you could go watch Mozart today, even if it's the last, crappiest show he ever played. What a thrill that would be.
Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.
I always used to develop a cold going into the studio.
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.
We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.
I hope I die before I get old.
I used to take amphetamines until I realized that amphetamines didn't go with being a good singer.
I struggled more than anything else to find a voice for this band.
We thought, at least it's dangerous. And we were under the wing of two great managers -- Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp,