Roger has appeared on stage away from The Who on many occasions, and his 1994 solo concert at New York’s Carnegie Hall, with The Juilliard Orchestra, was the fastest selling event in the venue’s history. It was a track from his first solo album Daltrey, released that same year, which he followed up with the albums Ride A Rock Horse (1975), One Of The Boys (1977), the soundtrack to McVicar (1980), and After The Fire (1985). Roger has also cultivated a singing career outside of The Who, beginning in 1973 when he found himself on the BBC’s Top Of The Pops, the UK’s then premier chart TV show, promoting the single ‘Giving It All Away’ which reached number five in the UK charts. He has also narrated a series for the History Channel, undergoing extreme hardships similar to those faced by pioneering settlers in America and elsewhere. Other US TV appearances include Lois & Clarke (Superman), Midnight Caller, William Tell, Sliders and Highlander as well as Leprechauns for Celtic Leprechaun Ltd and The Bill, the long running UK TV police drama. Most recently he appeared in the US CBS TV show CSI – which uses Who songs as theme music – as five separate, differently made-up characters, one of them a middle-aged African-American woman. Other film credits over the years include Ken Russell’s Lizstomania, the title role in McVicar, Lightning Jack with Paul Hogan, Teen Agent, and numerous roles in TV dramas. ![]() ![]() This in turn led Roger to develop a concurrent career as a film actor while continuing to sing with the Who. In this respect Roger became Tommy, the deaf dumb and blind boy of Pete’s imagination, and it was therefore only natural that he should assume the role in Ken Russell’s movie adaptation of the rock opera in 1975, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination. At the same time, he contributed to the group’s sense of showmanship by developing his unique skill at twirling his microphone lead around like a lasso and, by the time of Tommy in 1969, becoming one of rock’s most iconic sex symbols with his golden curls, bare chest and fringed suede coats. In surrendering his leadership of the band to Pete when the latter became the group’s songwriter, Roger became the mouthpiece for Pete’s lyrics and ideas. Roger’s earliest tastes in music ran to the blues and R&B which formed the setlist during their early years as the Detours, as well as Fifties rock’n’roll, which is reflected in his outstanding interpretations of such noted Who covers as ‘Summertime Blues’ and ‘Shakin’ All Over’. That same energy, coupled with his unwavering resolve, has sustained the group during periods of uncertainty ever since. In those days Roger, whose daytime job was in a sheet metal factory, even made the band’s guitars, and it was his energy and ambition that drove the group during their formative years. Roger first assembled the group that would become The Who in 1959 while at Acton County School, recruiting John Entwistle and subsequently agreeing to John’s proposal that Pete Townshend should join. His delivery of “We’re Not Gonna Take It,” the closing track of their rock opera " Tommy," got a standing ovation from most of the audience.If any one member of The Who can be said to be the group’s founding member it is singer Roger Daltrey, who was born in the West London suburb of Shepherd’s Bush on March 1, 1944. “I’m One” was beautifully packaged, the counterpoint of his vocals and guitar perfectly honed.ĭaltrey’s singing is eerily unchanged from decades ago, still full of subtle control and a range of inflection that other singers struggle to master. ![]() Townshend’s technique remains masterful and expressive. Two things that have barely changed, though, are Townshend’s guitar playing and Daltrey’s voice. The band has grown up over the decades, and so have the songs, and that change isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Also on stage was a full orchestra of mostly-local instrumentalists that provided depth and complexity where there used to be rowdiness and volume. Keith Urban review Keith Urban delivers 2 hours of 'utopian experience' in amped-up, high-energy showĭaltrey,78, and Townshend, 77, were joined by a hardworking touring band who both supported them and let them command the stage. This is a band who needs to prove nothing more and can simply enjoy doing what they do best: being musicians.
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