Roger Daltrey: The biography
Sep 2012 · Hachette UK
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'Hope I die before I get old', sang Roger Daltrey over forty years ago, but it didn't quite work out like that.
The wild and passionate lead singer for supergroup The Who is still very much alive. The premature deaths of fellow group members Keith Moon and John Entwistle leaves Daltrey and Pete Townshend as the only survivors of the legendary band.
Roger Daltrey's life is extraordinary from start to finish: he was expelled from school and written off as a violent thug - before he made his first guitar out of a block of wood, and music and The Who became his salvation. For many years he was the vouce of a generation, strutting bare-chested on stage, swinging the mic around like a lariat at The Who's dynamic concerts.
Drawing on interviews with Daltrey himself, as well as his friends and fellow musicians, this is the most complete and revealing biography of one of rock's most powerful personalities.
The wild and passionate lead singer for supergroup The Who is still very much alive. The premature deaths of fellow group members Keith Moon and John Entwistle leaves Daltrey and Pete Townshend as the only survivors of the legendary band.
Roger Daltrey's life is extraordinary from start to finish: he was expelled from school and written off as a violent thug - before he made his first guitar out of a block of wood, and music and The Who became his salvation. For many years he was the vouce of a generation, strutting bare-chested on stage, swinging the mic around like a lariat at The Who's dynamic concerts.
Drawing on interviews with Daltrey himself, as well as his friends and fellow musicians, this is the most complete and revealing biography of one of rock's most powerful personalities.
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Becky Haggard
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August 13, 2013
Simple; I love Roger Daltrey and so I loved this book. I wish it had pictures and there could have been a few more details on his music and life but it was an easy totally enjoying read! I liked at the end all of the lists of his work because there were songs he sang himself and with The Who that I had almost forgotten, and throughout the book it tells the movies and t.v. programs he was on that I can now try and find. Also I was very interested to learn the reasons behind starting his teenage cancer charity. He is a very kind and generous man with more than just singing talent! Rebecca S. Haggard
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About the author
Tim Ewbank writes regularly on show business for Now magazine, as well as for national newspapers like the Daily Express and Mail on Sunday. He is the author of a number of successful show business biographies, including ones on Rod Stewart, Tom Jones and Roy Keane.
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