We used to do three-hour shows at enormous volume. "In the 70s, quite often I'd stay in different hotels because we got thrown out of so many. Off stage, Daltrey would distance himself from his drug-ravaged bandmates, he recalls.
He details all the excesses – from the high points of hits including My Generation and rock operas Tommy and Quadrophenia, to the lows, notably the deaths of Moon and Entwistle – in his memoir, Thanks A Lot Mr Kibblewhite: My Story (named after his old grammar school teacher who said he'd never amount to anything). I knew I had a sound in me which could move people." I could have very easily gone off the rails too but the most important thing in my life was to be a singer.
"I was the straight one with three addicts in the band. "Somebody had to be the sensible one," he says now. He wasn't the one who drove a Cadillac into a hotel swimming pool (that was Moon) or smashed up instruments (Townshend and Moon), or demolished hotel rooms to such an extent that the band was banned from many during their heyday.
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Meeting Daltrey, the working-class Shepherd's Bush-boy-made-good is still a bundle of energy, standing up when he could sit down, animated, full of ideas and opinions, refreshingly devoid of filters in his responses.īut then he was the band member whose brain was never addled by long-term cocaine use or week-long benders. He was the relatively clean-living frontman of the band, known for his stage presence and energy, while his drug and alcohol-fuelled bandmates Pete Townshend, John Entwistle and Keith Moon frequently got wasted in the 60s and 70s. HE USED to boast long, wild, corkscrew curls but today Roger Daltrey's short grey hair is more conservative than chaotic – though with his black T-shirt and jeans combo, and sunglasses with smoky blue lenses (which he wears indoors), there's still an air of ageing rock star about him.Īt 74, The Who's lead singer looks a decade younger than his age.
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