74 Facts About Roger Daltrey

Roger Harry Daltrey was born on 1 March 1944 and is an English singer, musician and actor.

Roger Daltrey is the co-founder and lead singer of the rock band the Who.

Roger Daltrey began a solo career in 1973 while still a member of the Who, and has released ten solo studio albums, five compilation albums and one live album.

Roger Daltrey was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990, and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005.

Roger Daltrey was ranked number 61 on Rolling Stones list of the 100 greatest singers of all time in 2008; Planet Rock listeners voted him rock's fifth-greatest voice in 2009.

Roger Daltrey has been an actor and film producer, with roles in films, theatre, and television.

Roger Daltrey was born on 1 March 1944 in Hammersmith Hospital, East Acton, London, during a World War II bombing raid.

Roger Daltrey is the eldest of three children of Harry and Irene Daltrey, and has two younger sisters.

Roger Daltrey joined a skiffle group called the Detours who needed a lead singer, and produced it when they told him to bring a guitar.

Roger Daltrey's father bought him an Epiphone guitar in 1959 and he became the band's lead guitarist.

Roger Daltrey became the band's leader, and gained a reputation for using his fists to impose discipline.

Roger Daltrey explained, later in life, that this harsh approach came from the tough neighbourhood in which he had grown up, where arguments were resolved by fighting.

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 young people around the world and became a trademark sound.

Roger Daltrey's scream near the end of "Won't Get Fooled Again" was a defining moment in rock and roll.

When Ken Russell's adaptation of Tommy appeared as a feature film in 1975, Roger Daltrey played the lead role.

Roger Daltrey 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.

Roger Daltrey worked with Russell again, starring as Franz Liszt in Lisztomania, and collaborated with Rick Wakeman on the soundtrack of the film.

The band continued working after his death, but Roger Daltrey thought that new drummer Kenney Jones had been the wrong choice.

Roger Daltrey managed to complete the tour in spite of an abdominal ailment, for which he later received surgery.

Roger Daltrey agreed to help to produce a one-off performance, and the opera was to be performed with a large backing band.

In February 2010, Townshend and Roger Daltrey, headlining as the Who, performed the half-time show at Super Bowl XLIV in Miami, Florida, and were seen by 105.97 million viewers across the world.

Roger Daltrey wrote several songs in the band's catalogue during their early years:.

Roger Daltrey wrote a song titled "Crossroads Now" for the Who, which grew from an onstage jam in 1999.

The first, Roger Daltrey, was recorded during a hiatus in the Who's touring schedule.

Roger Daltrey released a single in 1973, "Thinking", with "There is Love" on the B-side.

McVicar was a soundtrack album from the film of the same name, in which Roger Daltrey starred and co-produced; it featured all the other members of the Who.

McVicar included two hit singles, "Free Me", and "Without Your Love", Roger Daltrey's best-selling solo recording.

Roger Daltrey said the album covered musical areas that he had wanted the Who to pursue.

On his Rocks in the Head album, Roger Daltrey's voice ranged from a powerful bluesy growl in the style of Howlin' Wolf, to tender vocals shared with his daughter Willow on the ballad "Everything a Heart Could Ever Want".

Roger Daltrey appeared in the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert in 1992, singing the hard rock Queen song "I Want It All", in homage to his friend Freddie Mercury who had died the previous year one day after a public announcement that he had AIDS.

Roger Daltrey's performance was part of Arsenal's celebration of the club's 93 years at Highbury as it prepared to move to a new stadium.

Roger Daltrey embarked on a solo tour of the US and Canada on 10 October 2009, the "Use It or Lose It" tour, with a new touring band he called "No Plan B" on The Alan Titchmarsh Show.

On 15 March 2018, Roger Daltrey announced the forthcoming release on 1 June of a new solo studio album, As Long as I Have You.

Roger Daltrey appeared on BBC One's The Graham Norton Show on 13 April 2018 to promote the single taken from the album.

In May 2021, Roger Daltrey announced a return to touring, with the solo Live and Kicking Tour, starting in August 2021.

In 1998, Roger Daltrey performed two songs with the Jim Byrnes Blues Band at the Los Angeles Highlander Convention.

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.

In November 2014, while staying at the Mar Hall Hotel in Bishopton, Renfrewshire ahead of the Who's gig at the SSE Hydro, Roger Daltrey joined local band Milestone for an impromptu rendition of "I Can't Explain".

Pete Townshend said Roger Daltrey had "almost invented the pseudo-messianic role taken up later by Jim Morrison and Robert Plant".

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, although Daltrey reduced the athleticism of his performances in later years.

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.

Roger Daltrey played a Versoul Buxom 6 handmade acoustic guitar on the Who's 2002 tour.

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.

Roger Daltrey is among those who brought the harmonica into British popular music.

Roger Daltrey commonly uses a standard Shure SM58, but has used Shure SM78, Shure model 565D Unisphere 1, and Shure model 548 Unidyne IV.

Roger Daltrey uses a hybrid monitoring system, with one in-ear monitor supplemented by floor wedges.

Roger Daltrey contributed to a collection of childhood fishing stories published in 1996 entitled I Remember: Reflections on Fishing in Childhood.

In October 2018, Roger Daltrey published his memoir, Thanks a Lot Mr Kibblewhite: My Story.

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.

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.

In 1990, Roger Daltrey was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio as a member of the Who.

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.

In 2003, Roger Daltrey was honoured by Time magazine as a European Hero for his work with the Teenage Cancer Trust and other charities.

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.

In July 2012, Roger Daltrey received an honorary degree from Middlesex University in recognition of his contributions to music.

Roger Daltrey has received numerous awards for his music, including Best Blues Album in the British Blues Awards 2015 alongside Wilko Johnson.

In 2019, Roger Daltrey was the recipient of the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.

Roger Daltrey received his Golden Plate along with Pete Townshend and presented by Awards Council member Peter Gabriel.

Roger Daltrey was instrumental in starting the Teenage Cancer Trust concert series in 2000, with the Who playing in 2000,2002,2004,2007 and 2010, and Roger Daltrey playing solo in 2011 and in 2015 as the Who.

Roger Daltrey has endorsed the Whodlums, a Who tribute band which raise money for the trust.

Roger Daltrey performed at the first ChildLine Rocks concert at London's the O2 on 13 March 2008.

In 2009, Roger Daltrey was a judge for the 8th annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists.

In 2011, Roger Daltrey became a patron of the Children's Respite Trust for children with disabilities.

Roger Daltrey announced that a portion of ticket sales from his solo tours would go to fund the teen cancer centres.

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.

In 2017, Roger Daltrey opined that a "dead dog" could have defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 United States presidential election.

In 2021, Roger Daltrey criticised "the woke generation" 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.

On 1 March 1994, his 50th birthday, Roger Daltrey received a letter from a woman who claimed to be his daughter from a brief relationship in the interval between his marriages.

Roger Daltrey later met two more daughters who were born during this period in the late 1960s.

Roger Daltrey stated that Heather had joined him in welcoming them to their extended family.

In 1971, Roger Daltrey bought a farm at Holmshurst Manor, near Burwash, Sussex.

In 1978, during the recording of the Who's album Who Are You, Roger Daltrey had throat surgery to remove nodules.

Roger Daltrey has an allergy to cannabis that affects his singing voice.

Roger Daltrey has stated that he has never taken hard drugs.