Roger Daltrey Biography

Fast Facts

• Grew up in the same neighborhood as future Who band mates Pete Townshend and John Entwistle
• Supported himself by working as a sheet-metal worker during the day while playing guitar with his band, the Detours, at night
• Recruited Entwistle to the Detours after their bassist quit; when the group's rhythm guitarist left, Entwistle called upon Townshend, a former band mate, to join
• Released his first studio album with the Who, The Who Sings My Generation, in 1965; was briefly kicked out of the band the same year after he flushed drummer Keith Moon's drugs down a toilet
• Made his solo debut in 1973 with Daltrey
• Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as part of the Who, in 1990
• Made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II
• Is a patron of the Teenage Cancer Trust, for which he organizes charity concerts at Royal Albert Hall