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Roger Daltrey, frontman of the Who, has addressed his mortality, weeks after his 80th birthday. The rocker, who hit the milestone on March 1, gave a long self-examination to U.K.’s The Times while explaining his decision to step down as the curator of the annual Teenage Cancer Trust (TCT) charity concerts. “I have to be realistic. I’m on my way out,” the legendary singer wrote. “The average life expectancy is 83 and with a bit of luck I’ll make that, but we need someone else to drive things.” Daltrey further detailed the nervousness he felt before recent shows, admitting concerns “about how ma...
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Pete Townshend has commented on the Who’s future, suggesting the legendary act may get back on the road for an extensive farewell tour. “It feels to me like there’s one thing the Who can do,” the rocker explained to The New York Times, “and that’s a final tour where we play every territory in the world and then crawl off to die.” The ever-candid guitarist admitted a final trek for the Who would be less about legacy and more about finances. READ MORE: All 245 Who Songs Ranked Worst to Best “I don’t get much of a buzz from performing with the Who,” Townshend confessed. “If I’m really honest, I’v...
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Roger Daltrey will return to songs by the Who this summer during an intimate tour of theaters and amphitheaters in the U.S. and Canada. He’s also promising some solo material and special question-and-answer sessions. Stops include Boston, Detroit and Indianapolis. A complete list of the nine-city tour is below. Tickets go on sale beginning Friday at 10AM local time. Local venues will have more pre-sale information. Check thewho.com for other details. The Who’s most recent dates were in 2022 during the “Hits Back” tour. Who touring members Simon Townshend (guitar), Billy Nicholls (mandolin) and...
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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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Classic rock band The Who has announced its first tour since 2019. Called the Who Hits Back! tour, it will kick off in Florida on April 22 at Hard Rock Live, and go most of the year before wrapping up November 11 with two shows in Las Vegas in Dolby Live at Park MGM. GET DEALS ON THE WHO CONCERT TOUR TICKETS HERE! Starting in June going to July, The Who will perform several shows in theaters around England. After a break in August and September, they will hit the road in North America again starting October 2 in Toronto. Original members Pete Townshend and Roger Daltry will be joined by severa...
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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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