Roger Daltrey: "A Who New Album? What’s the Point, they want to hear the old music.”

By editorial board on January 10, 2024

In a new interview Roger Daltrey talks about the continued popularity of The Who. Tommy is probably the best opera ever written'.

With the 60-year anniversary of The Who approaching, frontman Roger Daltrey has been reflecting on the continued popularity of the rock ‘n’ roll band.

When asked about new music from The Who, he laughs. “What’s the point? What’s the point of records? We released an album 4 years ago (The Who’s twelfth studio album, WHO was released on 6 December 2019) and it did nothing. It’s a great album too, but there isn’t the interest out there for new music these days. People want to hear the old music. I don’t know why, but that’s the fact.”

You play some of our records today and they sound as modern as they did the day they were released.”

“I think it’s the style that (Pete) Townshend writes in and the position of his psychology that you wrote from, this is so different than anything else that’s out there.”

“The Who’s music is very different from most rock,” Daltrey said. “You’re dealing with words from a deep inner space within us all. They have to connect the singer to the audience. If I lose the power to do that, well, I will stop, even if it’s after this tour. I don’t want the downward slope where you’re not quite as good as you used to be.”

He cited the band's classic song “Won’t Get Fooled Again,” which appeared in the recent movie Top Gun: Maverick. “That’s the beauty of [Pete] Townshend’s writing: You can put any kind of action film behind the pulsating music,” he said. “

Then there’s my scream in that song. I can only imagine where that might be [in the movie]. ... Pete had indicated a scream in that part of the song, and I thought, ‘This needs to be completely and utterly primal.’ I’ve always been into the primal shock connection to the audience that a voice can have. ‘Love Reign O’er Me’ has the same kind of thing with the last ‘love.’”

The singer praised the participating acts for being “incredibly generous” with their precious time. “They’re giving what is now their total income, which is from the road because there is no other income really in the music industry anymore. It’s all been robbed,” he continued. “So they’re giving up what is potentially their biggest payday, which is a London show. Especially for the bands in the position of Wet Leg where they’re just about to start doing arenas.”

 

 

Roger Daltrey said the distinctive requirements of singing the Who's songs meant he would have no choice but to retire at some point, and he was ready for it to happen at any time, even though he still loves touring.

In a new interview with Forbes, he accepted that “retirement age” was close and he'll stop when he could no longer “sing to where it touches the audience.”

 

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