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
Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.
I always used to develop a cold going into the studio.
I call it fan fatigue. I went to see Bob Dylan last year, who I think is absolutely incredible, but he suffers from his audience.
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.
My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days.
I'm surrounded by good people. That's the measure of a good life. All the rest is flotsam.
Nikki Lamborn has the best female rock voice since Janis Joplin and I know what I’m talking about, I knew Janis.
I thought if I lost the band, I was dead. If I didn't stick with the Who, I would be a sheet metal worker for the rest of my life.
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,