Roger Harry Daltrey (born on March 1st 1944) is a British singer of rock'n'roll , founder of the group The Who. He was also actor in many films, plays and telefilms.

Biography

See also: The Who

Former metal-worker known for his sometimes violent reactions and his aversion for drugs, Daltrey delivers by singing an energy out of the commun run, which made say to its guitarist “the songs of Who speak about fear, and one needs a man to sing in connection with the fear”. Often vêtu at the time of the concerts of a jacket with fringes which amplify each one of its movements, Daltrey developed a very spectacular stage business with the passing of years, in particular launching its microphone in the air to catch up with it at the last time.

Daltrey composed little of pieces for Who, but is nevertheless an essential wheel of the group, to which it brings the growls and the sweat of the Blues, but also a certain sexual energy: its jackets with fringes on its muscular chest left few indifferent young girls in the Années 1970…

The personality of Daltrey reaches its apogee end of the year 60, at the beginning of the Seventies. Its voice becomes much more expressive in turn very powerful in the title Baba O' Riley or mélodieuse in Behind Blue Eyes. Its scenic performances do of it one of the largest pop singers of all times.

Its punctuated career solo of some hits will reveal other facets of the personality of Daltrey.

In 2001, Roger Daltrey was the high-speed motorboat of the American series Shock waves ( Strange Frequency ). To each episode, it presents the stories and it also has the role of Simon/le devil in the first episode the god of the guitar .

Daltrey also has a cinematographic career, with some films as an actor and of many as a producer to his credit.

Always active in the last few years with Who, in solo, as an actor or for caritative works, it records with its accomplice of always the album Endless Wire and launches out in a gigantic world tour.

Anecdotes

• It wrote and sung a title with the memory of Arsenal at the time of the last match of Gunners Highbury has.
• It played in many episodes of Highlander (role of Hugh Fitzcairn), and also in an episode of the American series That 70 ' S Show (“That '70s Musical”, season 4)
• It is member and founder of the TEENAGE CANCER TRUST (caritative activity looking after the teenagers reached of cancer).

Discography

Albums

• Daltrey , 1973

• Ride has Rock Horse , 1975
• One off the Boys , 1977
• McVicar , 1980
• Parting Should Be Painless , 1984
• Under has Raging Moon , 1985
• Can' T Wait to See the Movie , 1987
• Rocks in the Head , 1992
• An irish evening , album of the Chieftains, 1992

Individual

• Giving It All Away (#5 the U.K.), 1973

• I' m Free (#13 the U.K.), 1973
• Without Your Coils (US #20), 1980
• Free Me (#39 the U.K.), 1980