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All you could do was to see them. We were backstage when the Beatles were on and you could just about hear a noise. It was just literally screaming.

Roger Daltrey

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Roger Daltrey
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: March 1
Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
Guitarist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Hammersmith
London
Roger Harry Daltrey
Backstage
Beatles
Screaming
Literally
Noise
Hear

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We tend to think of age only in time, but I don't think it has much to do with time at all there's a whole load of other things. I've met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.
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We were too rough at the edges to be a pop group.
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My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention.
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Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out.
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I struggled more than anything else to find a voice for this band.
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I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can't sing.
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I enjoy singing being in touch with something that is inside of me.
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Fifty per cent of rock is having a good time.
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I call it fan fatigue. I went to see Bob Dylan last year, who I think is absolutely incredible, but he suffers from his audience.
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First of all, you have to understand that I'm like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice.
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I know my faults, but I'm comfortable with me.
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I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice.
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But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man.
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I was making guitars and I was a sheet metal worker and if you ever see sheet metal workers' hands, you've never seen so many cuts in your life.
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No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I'd had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me.
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I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.
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I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.
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We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.
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Imagine if you could go watch Mozart today, even if it's the last, crappiest show he ever played. What a thrill that would be.
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You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything.
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