He still lives in the wilds of East Sussex, with its immense views and big skies. I was only 30 miles from London but we might as well have been in the Sahara Desert, and I learned the value of community again, which I'd had in Shepherd's Bush." There were always girls sitting on the front wall. There were parties, but there was also peace and quiet. In 1971 he and Heather moved to Holmshurst Manor, a country pile in East Sussex, which was used for a few years as the ultimate hippy crash pad. Grandkids come along, and you're suddenly looking through the right end of the telescope of life and it all makes sense." "You just grow out of it," he says with a shrug.
So, at what point did the marriage become monogamous? If she wasn't, then what's good for the goose is good for the gander." He says he told her about the other women in the early days. To have any kind of long-term relationship, you need to accept that that's part of your life, as long as it doesn't crush the marriage." "She accepted it because she knew the business. We never let those silly things that usually break marriages up break ours up. She understood me and knew the business I was in, and accepted me for my honesty at the beginning, and it worked. "I'm starting to like her and I'm thinking of not kicking her out," he says, laughing out loud.
He and Heather, with whom he has three children, have been together for nearly 50 years. "For a man, it's mostly just a s**g, unless you fall in love."
"Sexual infidelity should never be a reason for divorce," he writes. He admits that to come home and tell her he'd been a good boy would have been a lie. And we were away on tour for five, six months at a time as one of the biggest rock bands in the world." "Life on the road, month after month, can be a very lonely place without company. "If it was going to last, it had to be a marriage with no issues because of the business I was in," he writes. He had left his first wife Jackie and their son Simon to pursue a rock career, and when he married American model Heather in 1971, she knew the score, he says. He may not have been a drug addict, but he was a sex symbol. The last thing I wanted to do was to let the audience down." So if you didn't sleep that night and you had a show the next day, your voice wouldn't recover for the next show. We used to do three-hour shows at enormous volume. "In the 70s, quite often I'd stay in different hotels because we got thrown out of so many. Off stage, Daltrey would distance himself from his drug-ravaged bandmates, he recalls. He details all the excesses – from the high points of hits including My Generation and rock operas Tommy and Quadrophenia, to the lows, notably the deaths of Moon and Entwistle – in his memoir, Thanks A Lot Mr Kibblewhite: My Story (named after his old grammar school teacher who said he'd never amount to anything). I knew I had a sound in me which could move people." I could have very easily gone off the rails too but the most important thing in my life was to be a singer. "I was the straight one with three addicts in the band. "Somebody had to be the sensible one," he says now. He wasn't the one who drove a Cadillac into a hotel swimming pool (that was Moon) or smashed up instruments (Townshend and Moon), or demolished hotel rooms to such an extent that the band was banned from many during their heyday.
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Meeting Daltrey, the working-class Shepherd's Bush-boy-made-good is still a bundle of energy, standing up when he could sit down, animated, full of ideas and opinions, refreshingly devoid of filters in his responses.īut then he was the band member whose brain was never addled by long-term cocaine use or week-long benders. He was the relatively clean-living frontman of the band, known for his stage presence and energy, while his drug and alcohol-fuelled bandmates Pete Townshend, John Entwistle and Keith Moon frequently got wasted in the 60s and 70s. HE USED to boast long, wild, corkscrew curls but today Roger Daltrey's short grey hair is more conservative than chaotic – though with his black T-shirt and jeans combo, and sunglasses with smoky blue lenses (which he wears indoors), there's still an air of ageing rock star about him.Īt 74, The Who's lead singer looks a decade younger than his age.
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