“Whether this is an open marriage or just a matter of honesty, I always knew I would never be a perfect husband and she understands this perfectly,” he said. “Finding a woman who understands what this business is and how and who we are, accepting that and still wanting to be with me is a gift from the universe,” Daltrey said.
“Heather is wonderful,” the singer praised. In the same interview, the musician also revealed that he and his second wife had an agreement that he was allowed to live and do whatever he wanted while on tour in the gilded phase of The Who. He said he keeps in touch and is close to them. Roger Daltreys Net Worth, Age, Height, Weight, Wife, Kids, Bio-Wiki Wife/Spouse (Name):, Heather Taylor Children/Kids (Son and Daughter):, No/Yes (name). On the eve of the release of his autobiography, Daltrey said that everything went well with the children discovered late. Without revealing the identity of the children later discovered and the names of their biological mothers, the musician had a son with the first wife, one with the Swedish model Elisabeth Aronsson and three with the second woman. Most of all, love for his family shines through the book which is dedicated to Heather.Daltrey explained that the three children were born between his divorce from his first wife, Jackie, and his marriage to the second woman, Heather.
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“I knew, the moment I saw Pete stare straight into the TV camera, that he was entirely innocent,” says Roger. Then came the scandal of Townshend’s arrest on child porn charges which were later dropped. And Entwistle was found dead at 57 in a suite at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas in 2002 from a heart attack following a cocaine-fuelled romp with a stripper. Moon died aged 32 after overdosing on sedatives in 1978. “He would make you laugh, and keep laughing, and keep pushing buttons until you had to leave the room because you laughed so hard you ached.”īut there are also tragedies, like the death of 11 fans during their concert in Cincinnati.
“He looked like Aristotle Onasis by then, and had this little voice saying, ‘And how’s your mum?’”. Jaw-dropping moments, like his meeting with Ronnie Kray in Broadmoor. For a man, it’s mostly just a sh*g, unless you fall in love.” From City Hall, Newcastle on Wednesday night, heres Roger and his band singing The Kids Are Alright with a very cool extended coda. There are insights, such as his unusual views on marriage: “Sexual infidelity should never be a reason for divorce. Because when it comes to taking up hems of each new pair of trousers, he does the job himself. These days Roger defiantly refuses to even look like he should for a man of his generation, with his thick bouncy curls and gym-sculpted body.Īnd he’s not too high and mighty to be above doing his own chores either. They racked up so many hotel repair bills they returned from world tours broke. The Who tore up the rulebook, flicked two fingers at the establishment and told anyone trying to tame them to f-f-fade away. I AM a little f***er,” says Roger, hooting with laughter. “The little f***er didn’t bother me at all. “My fight with Keith Moon happened the next night in Aalborg.”Īnd the 5ft 7in giant of rock insists the reason he knocked out Pete Townshend was not because he had called him “a little f***er” during filming of Quadrophenia, but because they’d rowed about the crew. We had a riot in Aarhus with 5,000 p***ed-up farmers. “We had a fight alright,” says Roger, deadpan. Like my fight with Keith Moon in Aarhus,” he says. “A lot that’s recorded as Who history is wrong. Now, chatting over a cuppa in a London hotel room which echoes with his booming and infectious laugh, Roger wants to set the record straight about some of The Who’s legendary fights.
He was happy to be booted from the school he hated because it propelled him into the rock world.
The title Thanks a Lot Mr Kibblewhite is a message to Roger’s former headteacher who expelled him over an incident involving an air gun. I wanted my book, my story, my title, my cover. “You can’t take a dollop of money in a contract because then you’re under pressure from publishers who say, ‘I want more of this, more of that’. “I’ve been offered huge amounts for my life story but always turned it down,” he explains. It all makes for an incredible memoir, which he insisted on penning strictly on his terms. Off stage they were just as explosive, driving cars into swimming pools and hurling TV sets through windows. Onstage, they were dynamite – electrifying Woodstock and demolishing studio sets.
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