I lost all my salts and now I have to deal with that and not sweat too much. He added of his health battle: “We’d done a gig in Paris where it was 45 degrees on stage and basically I think I cooked my brain. His best selling album of the 80s was the 1985 album Under. Top 40 hit with Without Your Love in 1980. The 'Seeker hitmaker will be bringing his physiotherapist with him to their shows and admits he's to try not to "sweat too much". While Daltrey amassed a nice catalog of solo material in the 80s, he had only one U.S. "When I went for my medical for the next tour, I’d shrunk two inches in five years.” Sharing his theory behind his declining stature, he suggested: “The drugs they gave me for viral meningitis made me shrink. In an interview with The Times newspaper, he added: “But I have to be careful not to get too pumped up because I’m shrinking. The curly-mopped rocker is thrilled that he's kept a full head of hair, and his only real qualm about his appearance is his diminishing height. He said: “I walk at least two miles a day and I live in a house where every room goes up or downstairs.” The Who's Pete Townshend outed his longtime partner's crisis of confidence in a recent conversation with Classic Rock magazine. Roger - who insists he had to be the "sensible one" with "three addicts" in the band, referring to Pete and the late drummer Keith Moon and bassist John Entwistle, who both died of drug overdoses before their time - has looked after his health and says he walks two miles each day. Roger Daltrey missed a number of sessions for The Who 's third album, The Who Sell Out, to keep an eye on his girlfriend now wife whom he feared was being seduced by Jimi Hendrix. The unusual elements included Daltrey on vocals, John Entwistle on bass and Pete. After leaving London's Acton County Grammar School in 1963, he formed a skiffle band called The Detours, then displayed an early genius by putting together unusual elements into a world-class performance. The 'Pinball Wizard' hitmaker - who is "very, very deaf" due to almost six decades of exposure to loud music - admitted: “We haven’t done anything big in two years and I hope it’s still with me. Roger Daltrey is noted as a founder of the legendary rock band The Who. 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.Īs 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. Yet he still regularly tours with Townshend (Moon and Entwistle died in 19, respectively) –- often in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust, of which he is a patron with Sarah "Fergie" Ferguson, and her daughters Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie.Roger Daltrey has claimed he's been "shrinking" ever since he took viral medication for meningitis. RELATED: Pete Townshend: I Hated The Who's Rock 'n' Roll Carnage - but It Made Us Famousĭaltrey, 77, has a total of eight children and now lives a quiet rural life in Sussex, England with second wife, Heather. Some of those rooms did need a bit of redecorating." "When we got arrested, I'd been ordered to go to bed by the doctor, so I didn't do the smashing up. "We had no money, so we were sharing rooms and it was chaos," he said. "In the early days there were lots of parties, booze, and relationships," he continued about the band's extensive touring, which included a starring role at Woodstock in August 1969.
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