In March 2011, Roger Daltrey said in an interview with the BBC that Townshend had recently experienced gradual but severe hearing loss and was now trying to save what remained of his hearing.

* When Roger hits Marge with his microphone Roger Daltrey improvised and said " Shut the fuck up, Marge.

He was invited, in part, because the band had been friendly with him from his days with the Small Faces ( he and Moon were friends and were together on the last night of Moon's life in 1978, as part of the viewing party put together by Paul McCartney, for The Buddy Holly Story ), and because he had played with Townshend, Roger Daltrey and John Entwistle on the Tommy soundtrack.

He played on the albums Face Dances and It's Hard and on the band's tours from 1979 to 1982, and at Live Aid, but was frequently at odds with Daltrey, who felt that Jones ' drumming style was not right for the Who.

The promo film to Call Me Lightning ( 1968 ) tells a story of how drummer Keith Moon came to join the group: One fine day, the other three band members are having tea inside what looks like an abandoned hangar when suddenly a " bleeding box " arrives, out of which jumps a fast-running, timelapse, utterly out-of-control Moon that Pete Townshend, Roger Daltrey, and John Entwistle subsequently try to get a hold of in a sped-up slapstick chasing sequence to wind him down.

From this beginning they moved on to The Detours, a skiffle / rock and roll band fronted by Roger Daltrey, another former schoolmate.

The band ( now comprising Daltrey on lead vocals and harmonica, Townshend on guitar, Entwistle on bass guitar and french horn, and Moon on drums ) were soon taken on by a mod publicist named Peter Meaden who convinced them to change their name to The High Numbers to give the band more of a mod feel.

Roger Harry Daltrey, CBE ( born 1 March 1944 ), is an English singer, musician, songwriter and actor, best known as the founder and lead singer of English rock band The Who.

Daltrey became a sheet metal worker during the day, while practising and performing nights with the band at weddings, pubs and working men's clubs.

At that time, the band consisted of Daltrey on lead guitar, Pete Townshend on rhythm guitar, John Entwistle on bass, Doug Sandom on drums and Colin Dawson on lead vocals.

After Colin Dawson left the band, Daltrey switched to vocals and played harmonica as well, while Townshend became the lead guitarist.

" The next morning, Daltrey made the decision for the band, saying " It's The Who, innit?

The other members of the Who expelled Daltrey from the band in late 1965 after he beat up drummer Keith Moon for supplying drugs to Townshend and Entwistle, causing him to re-examine his methods of dealing with people.

A week later, Daltrey was admitted back to the band, but was told he'd be on probation.

Daltrey recalled, " I thought if I lost the band I was dead.

The band's second single, " Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere " was the only song on which Daltrey and Townshend collaborated, and Daltrey only wrote two other songs for the band during these years.

While others of the band worked on recording the music for Quadrophenia, Daltrey used some of this time to check the Who's books.

With each of the Who's milestone achievements, Tommy, Who's Next, and Quadrophenia, Daltrey was the face and voice of the band as they defined themselves as the ultimate rebels in a generation of change.

Daltrey produced and starred in the film, and completed a striking soundtrack with other members of the band.

In March 2010, Townshend and Daltrey, along with an extensive backing band, performed Quadrophenia at the Royal Albert Hall in London as a tenth anniversary charity benefit for the Teenage Cancer Trust.

The band as a whole acknowledged Moon and Entwistle's innovation and talent on their instruments, and Pete Townshend had begun writing hit songs, but Daltrey struggled to find a voice to present their new music.

David Daltrey, front man of British psychedelic band Tales of Justine, played the role of Joseph ; and Tim Rice was Pharaoh.

Both Townshend and Daltrey stated felt that Starkey was the best match for the band since the death of Keith Moon.

* Roger Daltrey, lead singer of British rock band The Who

Cricketer Albert Relf ( 1874 – 1937 ) was born here, The Who frontman Roger Daltrey maintains a Holmshurst Manor country estate and Lakedown fishery near Burwash Common, Robert Smith, singer and founding member of rock band The Cure is a resident.

King, Bob Dylan, Vicki Brown, Cozy Powell, Rod Argent, the Beach Boys, Ozzy Osbourne, Paul Rodgers, Keith Emerson, Roger Daltrey, Albert King and together with Colosseum II with Andrew Lloyd Webber on the composer's Variations album in 1978.

A 10-minute standing ovation followed the concert ; the DVD shows several rock luminaries in the crowd, such as Roger Daltrey, Paul Weller, Sir George Martin and Sir Paul McCartney ( although neither Martin nor McCartney attended the opening night, contrary to what the DVD implies ).

These included leading Northern Irish musician Van Morrison, British blues pioneer Alexis Korner as well as Ronnie Wood, Alex Harvey and Mick Jagger ; folk musicians Martin Carthy, John Renbourn and Ashley Hutchings ; rock musicians Roger Daltrey, Jimmy Page, Ritchie Blackmore, Robin Trower and David Gilmour ; and popular beat music successes Graham Nash and Allan Clarke of The Hollies.

In his definition of an " act ", Jancik distinguishes between a solo performer and any group he or she may have performed in ; thus Roger Daltrey is distinguished from The Who.

Unlike other filmed rock operas ( such as that of Pink Floyd's The Wall ) the album is never dubbed over the film ; the different actors – including Nicholson and Reed, neither of whom were known for their vocal prowess ( Reed's character's songs were cut from Oliver !, and Nicholson's in On a Clear Day You Can See Forever appeared only in the now-lost roadshow version ) – perform the songs in character instead of The Who, with the exception of Daltrey as Tommy and where Townshend sings narration in place of recitative.

" In a 1994 issue of Q magazine, Roger Daltrey echoed Townshend's comments regarding The Kinks ' influence on the writing of the song ;

Townshend did at one point consider forming a band with the members of the group Paddy, Klaus and Gibson, when Roger Daltrey was fired from The Who for a short time ; and John Entwistle was contemplating joining The Moody Blues to replace Clint Warwick.

With the encouragement and assistance of his old classmate Entwistle, Daltrey invited Townshend to join as well.

Roger Harry Daltrey was born in the Hammersmith area of London, but was brought up in Acton, the same working class suburban district that produced fellow Who members Pete Townshend and John Entwistle.

Daltrey attended Victoria Primary School and then Acton County Grammar School for Boys along with Pete Townshend and John Entwistle.

The event was followed by a major tour financed by Daltrey and including John Entwistle on bass, Zak Starkey on drums and Simon Townshend on guitar.

He then joined two members of the Who, Roger Daltrey and John Entwistle on a tour entitled Daltrey Sings Townshend, in 1994.

On The Who's involvement with the film, members Roger Daltrey played the title character, Keith Moon played, in essence, a dual role as both Uncle Ernie and as himself along with John Entwistle and Pete Townshend lip-synching on their respective instruments in the Eyesight to The Blind and Pinball Wizard segments.

Roger Daltrey, John Entwistle and Pete's brother, Paul Townshend provided guest voices in the episode.

The three then-surviving members of The Who ( Daltrey, John Entwistle, and Townshend ) performed as a group in two songs, " Dig " and " Fire ", although the latter was not penned by Townshend.

Parr's last concert in the U. S. was a duet of the song with Daltrey at Madison Square Garden, joining them on stage were Yoko Ono, Julian Lennon, John Entwistle and Zak Starkey.