Nevertheless, The Who legend Roger Daltrey has stepped up to defend our national flag, sharing why his band were so proud to use it as the main part of their imagery.
Appearing on GB News’ Tonight Live, host Dan Wootton told the Brexiteer musician: “No one in pop culture is more synonymous with the Union Jack than you.”The 77-year-old replied: “I just feel there’s so much made of the flag today. “But as far as we were concerned, it’s just such a great, great graphic.”
Of all the flags that are out there, the Union Jack is just such a strong graphic. “That's what we appreciated. It was not jingoistic, it wasn’t anything like that. Just looked so great on the stage.”
“It gave me the opportunity to find my own platform and I’m very happy being there.” “Equally, I wouldn’t mind being in a really good pub band like The Rolling Stones.
“Because The Who music was great to fight to, but it wasn’t good to dance to.”
Speaking in an another interview with DJ Zane Lowe on Apple Music in late April, Daltrey expressed gratitude for having lived through the "golden era," rebuking the relativity of truth and slamming those who advocate socialism and communism. (Theblaze.com)
"It's just getting harder to disseminate the truth," Daltrey said. "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."
"It's becoming so absurd now with AI, all the tricks it can do, and the woke generation," he continued. "It's terrifying, the miserable world they're going to create for themselves. I mean, anyone who's lived a life and you see what they're doing, you just know that it's a route to nowhere. Especially when you've lived through the periods of a life that we've had the privilege to."
"We've had the golden era. There's no doubt about that," Daltrey explained. "We came out of a war, we came out of a leveled society, completely flattened bomb sites and everything. And we've been through socialist governments. We've seen the communist system fail in the Soviet Union. I've been in those communist countries while they were communist. I've seen how 'wonderful' — really? — it was."
The Who frontman, Roger Daltrey, was a guest last April 26 on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. In the video below, Daltrey talks about how he came up with his mic-swinging trick, The Who’s explosive Smothers Brothers appearance, and his new film Rock Camp: The Movie.Boredom Inspired Roger Daltrey to Create His Iconic Mic-Swinging Trick
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