Roger daltrey as long as i have you series#

Roger daltrey as long as i have you series#

But the lyrics apply just as much today as they did then.”ĭaltrey has no immediate tour plans to promote As Long As I Have You With Townshend taking a year off from The Who, Daltrey - joined by members of The Who’s touring band - hits the road for a series of Tommy concerts with orchestras, starting June 8 in Bethel, N.Y., on the site of the first Woodstock festival. It just feels like we don’t seem to be moving on from where we are in the ’70s, when that song was written, so I sang it with a little more anger than I think Stevie ever sang it. There’s an incredible anger out there, and all it is anger. “It felt right for where we are politically around the world at the moment,” he explains, “because there’s so much frustration with the state of our nations and the politics. The version of “You Haven’t Done Nothing,” meanwhile, gave Daltrey a chance to express his frustrations with the state of the world.

One of Daltrey’s originals, “Certified Rose,” for his daughter Rosie, was considered for The Who, while “Always Headed Home” has been around since 1992. There’s more meat and potatoes to it now.” “But of course the way we did it back then, I was 18 years old, 19 years old, 20 years old you can sing the words at that age, but add 55 years of life experience on top of it and there’s a whole different ballgame. “This is the kind of music The Who used to do before Pete started writing,” Daltrey says. The set’s title track, in fact, is a Garnett Mimms single Daltrey and Townshend used to play in the pre-Who High Numbers as well as during The Who’s earliest days. “Pete didn’t go for it, so that’s where the idea came from for me doing a solo album.” “This is an idea I had about 10 years ago for The Who where I said to Pete, ‘Rather than you having to sweat blood to write new songs, why don’t we just record an album of what we used to play before we made it big and before you started writing the material?'” Daltrey says.

The Who's Roger Daltrey to Write Memoir, Inks Book Dealīlending originals with carefully selected covers of songs by Stephen Stills, Boz Scaggs, Buffalo Springfield, Parliament, Nick Cave, the Five Keys and Joe Tex - along with a molten rendition of Steve Wonder’s “You Haven’t Done Nothing” - As Long as I Have You has a soulful, even gospel in spots feel that hearkens back to Daltrey’s early days in music.