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Roger Daltrey has "thought about" joining Dignitas and would rather die than have treatment if he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. The Who frontman stressed he isn't currently ill but at the age of 79, mortality has been on his mind and if he felt he was becoming a "burden" to his loved ones, he'd take steps to end his life. Speaking after Dame Esther Rantzen - who has stage 4 lung cancer - revealed she has joined assisted dying organisation Dignitas, he told The Times newspaper: “I think she is incredibly brave to raise the subject and I’m kind of there too, so I have thought about it." As...
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Pete Townshend "really wanted" The Who's gay manager to be "sexually attracted" to him. The 78-year-old rocker - who has three children with ex-wife Karen Astley and is now married to Rachel Fuller - had no sexual interest in Kit Lambert and had never been attracted to a man, but he longed to have the executive look at him in a different way during the making of the group's ill-fated "lost" rock opera 'Life House'. He told the Financial Times newspaper: “I loved Kit. I wasn’t homosexual, I didn’t have any homoerotic feelings and I wasn’t sexually attracted to him, but I really wanted him to be...
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Pete Townshend believes taking heroin helped him do "dangerous, radical" things. The 78-year-old rocker - who has three children with ex-wife Karen Astley and is now married to Rachel Fuller - has opened up about the struggles in his relationship with The Who's manager Kit Lambert when he was writing his infamous 'lost' rock opera 'Life House' in 1970 and insisted he doesn't blame his mentor's drug addiction for the rift. He told The Times newspaper: “I’ve used heroin myself and it doesn’t disable you. “It mostly means you don’t enjoy food or sex, but also that you don’t give a f*** and that c...
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Roger Daltrey is "glad" Ed Sheeran won his 'Shape of You' copyright case. The 31-year-old pop star was taken to court by grime artist Sami Chokri, who claimed that the melody of the 2017 smash hit is "strikingly similar" to that of his 2015 song 'Oh Why', but a judge ruled earlier this month that Ed and his collaborators, Johnny McDaid and Steven McCutcheon, had not plagiarised the earlier hit. Judge Antony Zacaroli acknowledged there were "similarities between the one-bar phrase" in 'Shape of You' and 'Oh Why' but said "such similarities are only a starting point for a possible infringement" ...
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Roger Daltrey has claimed he's been "shrinking" ever since he took viral medication for meningitis. The Who frontman, 78, who came down with the severe bacterial infection in 2017, and was so poorly he thought he might die, believes the drugs he was prescribed to fend off the illness have made him shorter. As he and bandmate Pete Townshend, 76, prepare to play their first concert in two years, an acoustic set for Teenage Cancer Trust at London's The Royal Albert Hall on March 25, the charity's patron admits their two-hour sets are becoming increasingly harder as they approach their 80s. The 'P...
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Brian Cox thinks the UK is "still as feudal as it ever was". The 75-year-old actor - who stars as Logan Roy in the acclaimed TV series 'Succession' - admits to feeling frustrated by old-fashioned attitudes that have stunted the careers of working-class actors in the UK. Brian - who was born in Dundee, Scotland - reflected: "It's a feudal society, and it's everybody in their place, and the great thing about the '60s was that anything was possible. You were encouraged to be who you were. You were encouraged to be able to talk in your own accent. "Ironically, the Scottish thing didn't kick in unt...
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Alice Cooper has hailed Charlie Watts as "one of rock and roll’s true gentlemen". The Rolling Stones star passed away in a London hospital on Tuesday (24.08.21) at the age of 80, and Alice has paid a glowing tribute to Charlie, describing him as "the greatest pocket drummer of all time". Alice, 73, said in a statement: "Charlie Watts kept the beat for the world's greatest rock band for over 50 years. I consider him the greatest pocket drummer of all time." Similarly, Roger Daltrey has described Charlie as a "perfect gentleman", adding that he was "as sharp in his manner of dress as he was on t...
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Roger Daltrey has warned against the dangers of listening to “loud” music. The Who frontman has urged younger people to lower the volume because it’s unnecessary and admitted he and his bandmate, Pete Townshend, are paying the price now for not following the advice decades ago. He said: “Young people should stop listening to such loud music. They don’t need to. If your ears are ringing, you’ll pay. “Pete and I both have to wear hearing aids and it’s no fun taking them out; without them, life’s a mumble.” While he doesn’t want people to listen to loud music, Roger does wish they would sing more...
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Roger Daltrey has blasted the "miserable world" being created by the "woke generation". The Who frontman thinks the political climate has grown increasingly "absurd" and called for a shift away from online culture back to traditional print media as he warned young people are on a "route to nowhere". Joining bandmate Pete Townshend on Zane Lowe's Apple Music 1 show, he said: "It's just getting harder to disseminate the truth. It's almost like, now we should turn the whole thing off. Go back to newsprint, go back to word of mouth and start to read books again. "I don't know, we might get somewhe...
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Roger Daltrey: I'm allergic to the smell of weed!.The Who frontman has blamed a case of meningitis he suffered five years ago for making him develop the unusual allergy, which causes his throat to “close up” if he so much as smells a whiff of the smokable plant.Roger spends a lot of time in California, where marijuana is now legal, and says his allergy has made his home a “nightmare”, because it seems as though everyone is enjoying the drug except for him.Since [I had meningitis] I’ve got this terrible allergy to the smell of pot. Of all the afflictions! It’s a nightmare. My throat closes up a...
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