Roger Harry Daltrey was born on 1 March 1944 and is an English singer, musician and actor.
68 Facts About Roger Daltrey
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Roger Daltrey is a co-founder and the lead singer of the rock band The Who.
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Roger Daltrey began his solo career in 1973, while still a member of the Who.
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Roger Daltrey was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990, and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005.
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Roger Daltrey has been an actor and film producer, with roles in films, theatre, and television.
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Roger Daltrey was born on 1 March 1944, in Hammersmith Hospital, East Acton, London, the eldest of three children of Harry and Irene Roger Daltrey.
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Roger Daltrey made his first guitar, from a block of wood, in 1957, a cherry red Stratocaster replica, and joined a skiffle band called the Detours, who were in need of a lead singer.
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Early on, Roger Daltrey was the band's leader, earning a reputation for using his fists to exercise discipline, when needed.
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Roger Daltrey would explain, later in life, that his harsh approach came from the tough neighbourhood he grew up in, where most arguments and debates were resolved with a fight.
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Roger Daltrey promised that there would be no more violent outbursts or assaults.
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Roger Daltrey's Townshend-inspired stuttering expression of youthful anger, frustration, and arrogance in the band's breakthrough single, "My Generation", captured the revolutionary feeling of the 1960s for many young people around the world and became the band's trademark.
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Roger Daltrey found they had fallen into disarray under the management of Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp.
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When Ken Russell's adaptation of Tommy appeared as a feature film in 1975, Roger Daltrey played the lead role, and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for "Best Acting Debut in a Motion Picture" and appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine on 10 April 1975.
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Roger Daltrey afterward worked with Russell again, starring as Franz Liszt in Lisztomania.
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Roger Daltrey worked with Rick Wakeman on the soundtrack to this film.
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The Who continued after the death of their drummer Keith Moon in 1978, but tension continued to rise as Roger Daltrey felt that new drummer Kenney Jones was the wrong choice.
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In spite of an abdominal hemangioma, Roger Daltrey managed to complete the tour.
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The accident fractured his eye socket and caused considerable concern that he might not be able to perform safely, but Roger Daltrey donned an eye-patch to cover the bruises and completed the show as scheduled.
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In February 2010, Townshend and Roger Daltrey, headlining as the Who, performed the half-time show at Super Bowl XLIV in front of 105.97 million viewers across the globe.
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Roger Daltrey wrote a handful of songs in the band's catalogue during their early years:.
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Roger Daltrey wrote a song entitled "Crossroads Now" for the Who.
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Roger Daltrey released a single in 1973, "Thinking", with "There is Love" as the B-side.
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McVicar was billed as a soundtrack album for the film of the same name, in which Roger Daltrey starred and co-produced.
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McVicar included two hit singles, "Free Me", and "Without Your Love", which is Roger Daltrey's best-selling solo recording.
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On release, Parting Should Be Painless received negative critical reviews, and was Roger Daltrey's poorest-selling studio album up to that point.
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Roger Daltrey appeared in the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in 1992, singing the hard rock Queen song "I Want It All", to pay homage to his friend Freddie Mercury, who died the previous year one day after a public announcement that he suffered from AIDS.
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An avid fan of Premier League football club Arsenal FC, Roger Daltrey wrote and performed a specially commissioned song, "Highbury Highs", for the 2006 Highbury Farewell ceremony following the final football match at Highbury.
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Roger Daltrey's performance was part of Arsenal's celebration of the previous 93 years at Highbury as the club prepared for their move to the Emirates Stadium the following season.
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Roger Daltrey embarked on a solo tour of the US and Canada on 10 October 2009, officially called the "Use It or Lose It" tour with a new touring band he called "No Plan B" on the Alan Titchmarsh Show.
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On 15 March 2018, Roger Daltrey announced the forthcoming release, on 1 June, of his new solo studio album As Long as I Have You.
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Roger Daltrey appeared on BBC One's The Graham Norton Show, on 13 April 2018, to promote the single taken from the album.
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In May 2021, Roger Daltrey announced a return to touring, with the solo Live and Kicking Tour, starting in August 2021.
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In 1998, Roger Daltrey performed two songs with the Jim Byrnes Blues Band at the Los Angeles Highlander Convention.
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On 12 January 2009, Roger Daltrey headlined a one-off concert along with Babyshambles at the O2 Academy Bristol for Teenage Cancer Trust.
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In 2011, Roger Daltrey recorded a duet on the song "Ma seule amour" with French singer and composer Laurent Voulzy for his album Lys and Love.
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Roger Daltrey developed a trademark move of swinging and throwing his microphone through a complex sequence, matching these sequences with the tempo of the song that was being played at the moment, although Daltrey reduced the athleticism of his performances in later years.
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Roger Daltrey began playing guitar with the Who again during the band's tours in the 1980s, and used a Fender Esquire to play a second guitar part for the song "Eminence Front" on the Who's 1982,1989 and later tours.
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Roger Daltrey played a Versoul Buxom 6 handmade acoustic guitar on the Who's 2002 tour.
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Roger Daltrey owns a Gibson Everly Brothers Flattop acoustic guitar which he played on the Who and solo tours in the late first decade of the 21st century.
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Roger Daltrey is among those who first brought the harmonica into popular music.
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Roger Daltrey uses Shure microphones with cords that are taped to reinforce the connection and avoid cutting his hands when he swings and catches the microphone.
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Roger Daltrey commonly uses a standard Shure SM58, but has used Shure SM78, Shure model 565D Unisphere 1, and Shure model 548 Unidyne IV.
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Roger Daltrey uses a hybrid monitoring system, with one in-ear monitor supplemented by floor wedges.
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Roger Daltrey contributed to a collection of childhood fishing stories published in 1996 entitled I Remember: Reflections on Fishing in Childhood.
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In 1976, Roger Daltrey was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for "Best Acting Debut in a Motion Picture" for his starring role in the film version of the Who's rock opera Tommy.
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Roger Daltrey performed as a guest on the Chieftains' recording of Irish Evening: Live at the Grand Opera House which won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album in 1993.
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In 1990, Roger Daltrey was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio as a member of the Who.
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In 2005, Roger Daltrey received a British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors Gold Badge Award for special and lasting contributions to the British entertainment industry.
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In 2003, Roger Daltrey was honoured by Time magazine as a European Hero for his work with the Teenage Cancer Trust and other charities.
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On 4 March 2009, three days after his 65th birthday, Roger Daltrey accepted the James Joyce Award from the Literary and Historical Society of University College Dublin for outstanding success in the music field.
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In July 2012, Roger Daltrey received an honorary degree from Middlesex University in recognition of his contributions to music.
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Roger Daltrey has received numerous awards for his music, including Best Blues Album in the British Blues Awards 2015 alongside Wilko Johnson.
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In 2019, Roger Daltrey was the recipient of the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.
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Roger Daltrey received his Golden Plate along with Pete Townshend and presented by Awards Council member Peter Gabriel.
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Roger Daltrey was instrumental in starting the Teenage Cancer Trust concert series in 2000, with the Who actually playing in 2000,2002,2004,2007, and 2010, and Roger Daltrey playing solo in 2011, and in 2015 as the Who.
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Roger Daltrey has endorsed the Whodlums, a Who tribute band which raise money for the trust.
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Roger Daltrey performed at the first ChildLine Rocks concert at London's the O2 on 13 March 2008.
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In 2009, Roger Daltrey was a judge for the 8th annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists.
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In 2011, Roger Daltrey became a patron of the Children's Respite Trust for children with disabilities.
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Roger Daltrey announced that a portion of ticket sales from his solo tours would go to fund the teen cancer centres.
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Roger Daltrey was previously a supporter of the British Labour Party, but he withdrew his endorsement citing his opposition to the "mass immigration" policies put in place under the Blair government.
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In 2017, Roger Daltrey opined that a "dead dog" could have defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 United States presidential election.
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In 2021, Roger Daltrey criticised the rise of woke culture in an interview with Zane Lowe's Apple Music 1 podcast, arguing that younger generations are limiting themselves by stifling and undoing creative freedoms that had emerged through the artistic revolutions of the 1960s.
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In 1971, Roger Daltrey bought a farm at Holmshurst Manor, near Burwash, Sussex.
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Roger Daltrey has announced onstage that he is "very, very deaf," suffering hearing loss due to exposure to loud volume levels during performances.
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In 1978, during the recording of the Who's album Who Are You, Roger Daltrey had throat surgery to remove nodules after an infection.
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Roger Daltrey has an allergy to cannabis that affects his singing voice; when second-hand marijuana smoke from an audience has impacted his performance, he has occasionally interrupted the concert to request that people not smoke it.
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Roger Daltrey has stated that he has never taken hard drugs.