“If it helps my charity work open doors towards huge amounts of money sittin’ in fuckin’ foundations everywhere, then fine!”
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Roger Daltrey
Sir Roger Harry Daltrey is an English singer, songwriter and actor. He is the co-founder and lead vocalist of the rock band the Who, known for his powerful voice and charismatic stage presence. His stage persona earned him a position as one of the "gods of rock and roll".
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entertainment · English musician and songwriter (born 1944) · vocalist · actor · singer · film producer · singer-songwriter · guitarist · film actor · television actor · voice actor · rock musician · also Roger Daltrey, Roger Harry Daltrey, Sir Roger Daltrey, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Daltrey
Born 1 March 1944 · Q311672
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He’s got the X factor, hasn’t he? He’s magic to watch. You can’t learn that. “What’s so disarming about Peter [Doherty] is that he pretends he’s in control, or he thinks he is. But if he’s up to everything [with drugs] people say he is, he cannot be in control. He is a genius. But I’ve known many people like that and they’re all dead.
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2026· 10 entries
“He’s got the X factor, hasn’t he? He’s magic to watch. You can’t learn that. “What’s so disarming about Peter [Doherty] is that he pretends he’s in control, or he thinks he is. But if he’s up to everything [with drugs] people say he is, he cannot be in control. He is a genius. But I’ve known many people like that and they’re all dead.”
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“The most amazing mimic. He could vacuum a character off someone in 10 minutes and he would then become them. Not just a caricature, he’d get inside. It was scary! He may have been a little bit autistic; we didn’t know about those things then. There was definitely something different in his head.”
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“a working-class thing, putting something back”
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Hoodline: Knighted Rocker Roger Daltrey Finally Headlines a Las Vegas Strip Theater
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Las Vegas Review-Journal: Latest Vegas shows mark a first for The Who’s Roger Daltrey - Las Vegas Review-Journal
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Far Out Magazine: 'Music Must Change': The song Roger Daltrey refuses to play
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Far Out Magazine: The one “screaming” genre Roger Daltrey always hated: “Not music”
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Far Out Magazine: Roger Daltrey on the one man who filled John Entwistle's shoes
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Yahoo: Robert Plant, Roger Daltrey to perform at tribute concert for British music presenter Whispering Bob Harris
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2025· 5 entries
Miami New Times: Roger Daltrey Will Headline Fort Lauderdale Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp
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The Guardian: Ringo Starr called Roger Daltrey ‘that little man’, says son sacked from the Who
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Awarded Knight Bachelor (2025).
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The Guardian: Gary Oldman and Roger Daltrey knighted in king’s birthday honours
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Yahoo: Roger Daltrey Net Worth 2025: How Much Money Does He Make?
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2024· 1 entry
American Songwriter: The Who’s Roger Daltrey Announces North American Tour in 2024
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2023· 1 entry
People: Roger Daltrey Says the Who Is Likely Done Making New Music: 'What's the Point?'
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2021· 6 entries
Ultimate Classic Rock: Roger Daltrey Doesn’t Know Why Keith Moon Wanted to Join the Who
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Ultimate Classic Rock: How the Who’s ‘Sell Out’ Cover Made Roger Daltrey Sick
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The Guardian: Brexiter Roger Daltrey criticises restrictions for musicians touring Europe
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Daltrey said, "'When three daughters arrived on my doorstep [unexpectedly in the '90s, the products of relationships with women in the '60s], I accepted them and I love them very much'"
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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
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In 2021, Daltrey said, "'When three daughters arrived on my doorstep [unexpectedly in the '90s, the products of relationships with women in the '60s], I accepted them and I love them very much'".
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2019· 3 entries
Released album “The Who’s Tommy Orchestral”.
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Saying, "If you want to be signed up to be ruled by a fucking mafia, you do it
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Daltrey was the recipient of the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement
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2018· 6 entries
Released album “As Long as I Have You”.
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Daltrey announced onstage in 2018 that he had suffered hearing loss as a result of exposure to loud noise levels during performances and was now "very, very deaf".
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Criticised Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, describing him as a "communist"
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As of 2018, Daltrey had eight children and fifteen grandchildren.
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That he had suffered hearing loss as a result of exposure to loud noise levels during performances and was now "very, very deaf"
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Denounced the MeToo movement, saying: "I find this whole thing so obnoxious
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2017· 1 entry
Daltrey opined that a "dead dog" could have defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 United States presidential election
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2014· 1 entry
Released album “Going Back Home”.
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2013· 1 entry
The Guardian: Who frontman Roger Daltrey talks about 'Tommy': From Guardian archive, 26 March 1975
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2012· 1 entry
Offered his support to a project helping unemployed young people in Heathfield, East Sussex, run by Tomorrow's People Trust
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2011· 7 entries
Released album “Roger Daltrey Performs The Who's Tommy”.
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Daltrey recorded a duet on the song "Ma seule amour" with French singer and composer Laurent Voulzy for his seventh studio album Lys and Love
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Wrote a tribute article in honour of the late Ken Russell which was published in Britain's Daily Express
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Released album “Roger Daltrey Performs The Who's "Tommy" (10/24/11 Live in Portland, OR)”.
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Daltrey became a patron of the Children's Respite Trust for children with disabilities
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Daltrey, Aerosmith's Steven Tyler, and Julie Andrews provided funding for Robert S
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Released album “Tommy Reborn”.
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2010· 1 entry
Daltrey and No Plan B appeared for several dates with Eric Clapton, including Summerfest held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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2009· 3 entries
Daltrey was a judge for the 8th annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists
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Began finding it harder to reach the high notes
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Contributed a foreword to Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere: The Complete Chronicle of the Who 1958–1978 by Andrew Neill and Matt Kent
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2008· 2 entries
Released album “First Solo Tour”.
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And The George and Ira Gershwin Award for Lifetime Musical Achievement at UCLA on 21 May 2016
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2007· 1 entry
Released album “The Wheels On the Bus”.
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2006· 2 entries
Released album “Gold”.
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Released the Who's first studio album of new material in twenty-four years, Endless Wire, which led to suggestions that the much-discussed artistic tension in the Who lay between Daltrey and Townshend
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2005· 5 entries
Awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2005).
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Released album “Moonlighting: The Anthology”.
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Released album “Anthology”.
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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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Released album “Ultimate Male, Volume 2”.
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2004· 1 entry
Career landmark: Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2004).
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2003· 1 entry
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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2001· 1 entry
For outstanding artistic significance in music
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2000· 1 entry
With the Who playing in 2000, 2002, 2004, 2007 and 2010, and Daltrey playing solo in 2011 and in 2015 as the Who
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1998· 1 entry
Daltrey performed two songs with the Jim Byrnes Blues Band at the Los Angeles Highlander Convention
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1997· 1 entry
Released album “Martyrs and Madmen: The Best of Roger Daltrey”.
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1996· 2 entries
Pete Townshend was approached to produce Quadrophenia for the Prince's Trust concert at Hyde Park, London
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Entitled I Remember: Reflections on Fishing in Childhood
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1994· 3 entries
Released album “A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who”.
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On 1 March 1994, his 50th birthday, Daltrey received a letter from a woman who stated that she was his daughter.
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Daltrey performed two shows at Carnegie Hall in New York City
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1992· 4 entries
Released album “Rocks in the Head”.
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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
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Released album “Alone & Together Live in Concert 1986”.
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Released album “Summertime Blues”.
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1991· 1 entry
Released album “Best of Rockers & Ballads”.
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1990· 1 entry
Daltrey was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio as a member of the Who
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1989· 2 entries
Released album “Mack the Knife”.
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For a 25th Anniversary Tour, which also celebrated the 20th anniversary of their rock opera Tommy
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1987· 1 entry
Released album “Can’t Wait to See the Movie”.
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1985· 1 entry
Released album “Under a Raging Moon”.
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1984· 1 entry
Released album “Parting Should Be Painless”.
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1983· 1 entry
When Townshend felt that he could no longer write for them
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1982· 1 entry
Released album “Best Bits”.
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1981· 1 entry
Opened a trout farm, Lakedown Trout Fishery, designing its four spring-fed lakes himself
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1980· 1 entry
Released album “McVicar”.
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1978· 1 entry
During the recording of the Who's eighth studio album Who Are You, Daltrey had throat surgery to remove nodules
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1977· 1 entry
Released album “One of the Boys”.
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1976· 1 entry
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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1975· 2 entries
Released album “Ride a Rock Horse”.
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Daltrey played the lead role
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1973· 4 entries
Released album “Daltrey”.
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While still a member of the Who, and has released ten solo studio albums, five compilation albums and one live album
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"Thinking", with "There Is Love" on the B-side featuring Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin on guitar
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“Whatever happens, our country should never fear the consequences of leaving. We went into the Common Market in 1973. Do you know what was going on before we went in? It was the 1960s. The most exciting time ever – Britain was Swinging. Films, Theatre, Fashion, Art and Music.... Britain was the centre of the world. You got that because Britain was doing its own thing. It was independent. Not sure we”
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1971· 2 entries
Daltrey and Taylor have been married since 1971.
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Daltrey bought a farm at Holmshurst Manor, a Jacobean country house near Burwash in East Sussex
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1970· 1 entry
Daltrey publicly supported The National Campaign for Freedom of Information, saying: "I come from a working-class background and I am proud of it, and I intend to fight for the workers' right to know
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1968· 1 entry
Daltrey met Heather Taylor, a UK-born model living with her grandmother at the time, who supposedly was the subject of the 1967 Jimi Hendrix song "Foxy Lady"
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1967· 1 entry
Daltrey's son Mathias was born as a result of Daltrey's affair with Swedish model Elisabeth Aronsson
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1965· 1 entry
“s catalogue during their early years:”
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1964· 1 entry
That another band was performing as the Detours, and discussed changing their name
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1944· 3 entries
Born 1944-03-01.
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“And when it leaves me, I’ll know.”
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“s Daily Express. In October 2018, Daltrey published his memoir, Thanks a Lot Mr. Kibblewhite: My Story. The title is a reference to the man who threw him out of grammar school, enabling him to go into a successful music career. Awards and achievements In 1976 Daltrey was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for”
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