I`m not insecure about doing a solo album now, which I was before. If I`d been too positive then, it would have done the Who a lot of damage. “This album is very positive,” said Roger Daltrey referring to `Ride A Rock Horse`, his second solo album released next week. Before examing the machinery in toto, let us briefly turn our attention to one energetic cog in the cycle. This Summer the individual components are being fused together again for the recording of the first Who album since `Quadrophenia`. While not known for their intimate comradeship offstage, the Who have seen even less of each other over the last 18 months with each member pursuing various cinematic and musical projects. You let the machinery unravel, slowly, allowing individual components to function without group environments, positively hoping that frustrations will disappear and the machinery emerge well oiled and more impressive than before. If you are the Who, you do a great number of things. So what do you do?” The singer asked passionately. “If the Who went onstage like the Pink Floyd, with an incredible light show, and stood there like four dead people that sounded great, our fans wouldn`t put up with that. You can`t just turn it off, go somewhere else and expect people to put up with it. That`s why we`ve lasted because kids want to see the Who, see those four people. “It`s still only the four people in the band. Rock isn`t refusing to grow up, it`s the people that buy it it`s what they want to hear. “It`s just learning things, growing up and becoming mature. “It`s nothing to do with getting old,” says a member of the world`s only intact and unchanged rock and roll band. We were talking about this dead end rock has run into. Not content to stay home and mind the pigs, Roger Daltrey has been busy lately. He is very tired today, feeling the blunt edge of continuous work for the last 18 months. Roger Daltrey looks up from his roast chicken, casting an eager eye over the colourful crowd. People from wardrobe and makeup, directors, sultry female extras, all sorts. The food is the same standard, barely edible stuff found in any cafeteria but the clientele is more attractive. The atmosphere is decidely more realistic inside the practical but unglamorous canteen. Roger Daltrey, actor, climbs out of some fancy grey threads into some scruffy denims and becomes Roger Daltrey, rock singer. The inflatible lady stays behind in a dingy studio at Shepperton while the rest of the less plastic crew take time out from the very last day of shooting `Lisztomania` for lunch.įranz Liszt climbs out of the space capsule and suddenly becomes Roger Daltrey. The fantasy and illusions stop for lunch. And an even more patient Ken Russell saying “Lola A flat”. And there was a patient Roger Daltrey saying “Lola B flat”. And there was this silver space capsule plummeting towards earth. There was this enormous inflatible lady, red satin knickers and racy black lace. Nice one, Barbara!Įxclusive Roger Daltrey interview by Barbara Charone Charone conducted a really good interview here. This is a refreshingly honest interview with the one and only frontman of the Who.
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