"There's some reason why these great bands, like us and Zeppelin and The Beatles - it's the chemistry of the members that created this thing that is so much bigger than the sum of its parts."ĭaltrey spoke with NPR's David Greene about the early days of The Who and how severe illness forced him to face his mortality in the middle of a creative project. "There was something about the chemistry of us that worked," he says. Though they hardly see each other offstage anymore, Daltrey says he and Townshend still have a strong relationship grounded in honesty. After a month in the hospital and six months of recovery, Daltrey planned to shelve the project - until he got a boost of energy from his old friend Pete Townshend, who urged him to finish the project and offered to play guitar on it.
Work on As Long as I Have You stalled when Daltrey was hospitalized for meningitis. Roger Daltrey skipped sessions for The Who Sell Out as he was afraid of Jimi Hendrix stealing his girlfriend, says Pete Townshend By Classic Rock ( Classic Rock ) published 27 July 21 Fears that Jimi Hendrix might seduce his girlfriend Heather Taylor led Roger Daltrey to avoid the studio during sessions for The Who’s third album, says. Roger Daltrey's As Long as I Have You is available now. And, of course, as young English teenagers growing up, this was magical music," he says. After the war, we had the GIs over in England. "This is all American heritage music that Americans at the time didn't know about. As Daltrey explains, this was the music he idolized as a teen.
The new album's title track is a cover of a 1964 song by soul singer Garnet Mimms. "The idea of doing pre-Townshend stuff was an idea that I had for The Who about 10 years ago, when Pete was struggling writing a new album." "This is the kind of material we were playing when we were at the Marquee Club and early gigs that we used to do in London around 1964, before Pete Townshend started writing the songs," Daltrey says. At the age of 74, the British rocker is returning to that music for his new solo album, As Long as I Have You. But when first it started in the 1960s, Daltrey's band was covering American soul songs. Rolling Stone wrote that the voice of The Who's Roger Daltrey was one of the most powerful instruments in rock. The Whos Roger Daltrey Doesnt Know if Band Will Make New Music 8 months. iGoing Back Home (2014) and his first solo album since 1992, Now That I Have You (2018), proved there was still much to offer."Soul comes from the gut," Roger Daltrey says. The Whos Roger Daltrey Calls Rolling Stones a Mediocre Pub Band 8 months ago. Still astonishingly fit and firm of voice into his sixth decade, Roger Daltrey's enduring strength and charisma made him one of rock's most memorable frontmen, with a pair of late-career milestones, an R&B set with guitarist Wilko Johnson. He rejoined Townshend and Entwhistle in 1989 to celebrate the band's 25th anniversary, which led to a string of subsequent reunion tours and a well-received album, Endless Wire (2006). The Who haven’t performed in a little under a year and have no tour dates slated for the foreseeable future, but their break hasn’t kept Roger Daltrey still. Daltrey began releasing solo records in 1973. His seemingly innocent appearance belied his incredible vocal range, which reached from a blues-driven growl to an ear-shattering scream, as evidenced by his cathartic exclamation at the end of 1971's "Won't Get Fooled Again." His singing talents and undeniably masculine stage presence led to a string of acting roles, most notably as the titular hero in Ken Russell's adaptation of "Tommy" (1975) and as a determined bank robber in "McVicar" (1980). Arguably one of the most commanding singers in rock-n-roll history, Roger Daltrey delivered maximum power as frontman for Britain's legendary the Who, from their inception in the early 1960s through their rise to international fame with the albums Tommy (1962), Who's Next (1971) and Who Are You (1978) and subsequent reunions over a period of nearly five decades.
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