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Roger Daltrey Biography

Roger Harry Daltrey CBE (born 1 March 1944) is an English singer and actor. In a career spanning more than 50 years, Daltrey came to prominence in the mid-1960s as the founder and lead singer of the rock band the Who, which released 14 singles that entered the Top 10 charts in the United Kingdom during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, including "I Can't Explain", "My Generation", "Substitute", "I'm a Boy", "Happy Jack", "Pictures of Lily", "Pinball Wizard", "Won't Get Fooled Again", and "You Better You Bet". Daltrey began his solo career in 1973, while still a member of the Who. Since then, he has released eight studio albums, five compilation albums, and one live album. His solo hits include "Giving It All Away", "Walking the Dog", "Written on the Wind", "Free Me", "Without Your Love", "Walking in My Sleep", "After the Fire", and "Under a Raging Moon". In 2010, he was ranked as number 61 on Rolling Stone's list of the 100 greatest singers of all time.

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My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention.

Enthusiasm, Feeling, Feelings, Reinvention, Simply

I struggled more than anything else to find a voice for this band.

Band, Struggled, Voice

I'm surrounded by good people. That's the measure of a good life. All the rest is flotsam.

Good Life, Good People, People, Rest, Surrounded

You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.

Brick, Guitar, Layers, Play, Worker

I love Adele. That's a lead singer; that's the real deal.

Real, Singers, Deals, Singer, Lead

I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it.

Congratulations, Done, Like, Pleased, Success

We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.

Community, Crime, Rich, Shepherds, Wonderful

I never understood that if you sweat as much as I used to every night, you drain your body of salts. So I got very, very, seriously ill. I got to the stage where I was almost hospitalized with serious problems.

Body, Night, Problems, Sweat, Understood

We lived the life with Keith Moon. It was all Spinal Tap magnified a thousand times.

Keith, Life, Lived, Moon, Spinal Tap

I'm realistic about my age and realistic about the fact that there's an awful lot less in front of me than there is behind me. I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

Age, Art, Live Life, Music, Realistic

No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I'd had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me.

Baby, Fighting, Guys, Life, Older, War

I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.

Able, Keith, Life, Moon, Think, Thinking

I thought if I lost the band, I was dead. If I didn't stick with the Who, I would be a sheet metal worker for the rest of my life.

Band, Life, Rest, Sheet, Sticks, Would Be

Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out.

Career, Careers, Early, Knocking, Part, People

We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.

Edges, Group, Groups, Pop, Pops, Rough

My place, your place, slapped face, rat race.

Face, Race, Rat, Rats, Rejection, Slapped

I enjoy singing; being in touch with something that is inside of me.

Enjoy, Singing, Touch

Rock n' roll seems to have changed society much more than any politician, I think it really has.

Changed, Rock, Rock N Roll, Rocks, Think, Thinking

All you could do was to see them. We were backstage when the Beatles were on and you could just about hear a noise. It was just literally screaming.

Backstage, Hear, Noise, Screaming, See

I don't care what people say about me.

Care, I Don'T Care, People, Say

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