Roger has appeared on stage away from The Who on many occasions, and his 1994 solo concert at New York’s Carnegie Hall, with The Juilliard Orchestra, was the fastest selling event in the venue’s history. It was a track from his first solo album Daltrey, released that same year, which he followed up with the albums Ride A Rock Horse (1975), One Of The Boys (1977), the soundtrack to McVicar (1980), and After The Fire (1985). Roger has also cultivated a singing career outside of The Who, beginning in 1973 when he found himself on the BBC’s Top Of The Pops, the UK’s then premier chart TV show, promoting the single ‘Giving It All Away’ which reached number five in the UK charts. He has also narrated a series for the History Channel, undergoing extreme hardships similar to those faced by pioneering settlers in America and elsewhere. Other US TV appearances include Lois & Clarke (Superman), Midnight Caller, William Tell, Sliders and Highlander as well as Leprechauns for Celtic Leprechaun Ltd and The Bill, the long running UK TV police drama. Most recently he appeared in the US CBS TV show CSI – which uses Who songs as theme music – as five separate, differently made-up characters, one of them a middle-aged African-American woman. Other film credits over the years include Ken Russell’s Lizstomania, the title role in McVicar, Lightning Jack with Paul Hogan, Teen Agent, and numerous roles in TV dramas. This in turn led Roger to develop a concurrent career as a film actor while continuing to sing with the Who. In this respect Roger became Tommy, the deaf dumb and blind boy of Pete’s imagination, and it was therefore only natural that he should assume the role in Ken Russell’s movie adaptation of the rock opera in 1975, for which he received a Golden Globe nomination. At the same time, he contributed to the group’s sense of showmanship by developing his unique skill at twirling his microphone lead around like a lasso and, by the time of Tommy in 1969, becoming one of rock’s most iconic sex symbols with his golden curls, bare chest and fringed suede coats. In surrendering his leadership of the band to Pete when the latter became the group’s songwriter, Roger became the mouthpiece for Pete’s lyrics and ideas. Roger’s earliest tastes in music ran to the blues and R&B which formed the setlist during their early years as the Detours, as well as Fifties rock’n’roll, which is reflected in his outstanding interpretations of such noted Who covers as ‘Summertime Blues’ and ‘Shakin’ All Over’. That same energy, coupled with his unwavering resolve, has sustained the group during periods of uncertainty ever since. In those days Roger, whose daytime job was in a sheet metal factory, even made the band’s guitars, and it was his energy and ambition that drove the group during their formative years. Roger first assembled the group that would become The Who in 1959 while at Acton County School, recruiting John Entwistle and subsequently agreeing to John’s proposal that Pete Townshend should join. So what does everyone think of the Roger discog? I've heard Daltrey, Ride a Rock Horse, One Of The Boys, McVicar and Under A Raging Moon myself, curious to hear what y'all think, especially of the ones I haven't heard.If any one member of The Who can be said to be the group’s founding member it is singer Roger Daltrey, who was born in the West London suburb of Shepherd’s Bush on March 1, 1944. I literally thought it was gonna be a cover and the original would be some kind of old blues tune. The instrumental interludes are pleasant, but I was surprised to learn that the album features easily the best original of Roger's solo career in Waiting On A Friend, which is just a really wonderful song. I've had McVicar on a whole lot the past couple weeks though, I feel it's very well paced, the album just flies on by and it's great every time. once, according to Discogs, and the film hasn't seen a DVD anywhere but the UK. I feel like the "hidden gem" of the bunch is the soundtrack album for McVicar though. People that like The Who seem to enjoy Under A Raging Moon, and fair enough, it's a good album. Hell, most of them don't have more than one or two CD prints. I noticed that a lot of his albums are badly unloved, with a scant three of them on Spotify.
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