{"id":29163,"date":"2024-04-01T18:02:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T18:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/the-whos-roger-daltrey-looks-ahead-im-on-my-way-out\/"},"modified":"2024-04-01T18:02:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T18:02:58","slug":"the-whos-roger-daltrey-looks-ahead-im-on-my-way-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/the-whos-roger-daltrey-looks-ahead-im-on-my-way-out\/","title":{"rendered":"The Who\u2019s Roger Daltrey looks ahead: &#8220;I\u2019m on my way out\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-04-01\/Getty_RogerDaltrey_040124.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Ian West\/PA Images via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>The Who<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Roger Daltrey<\/strong> recently stepped down as curator of the annual Teenage Cancer Trust charity shows after 24 years, and he&#8217;s\u00a0now opening up about why he decided to retire from the position.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI have to be realistic. I\u2019m on my way out,\u201d the 80-year-old rocker wrote in a backstage diary for U.K.&#8217;s\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/roger-daltreys-diary-24-years-of-charity-gigs-and-raising-32m-fb5mx0lt2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>The Times<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><span class=\"s1\">. \u201cThe average life expectancy is 83 and with a bit of luck I\u2019ll make that, but we need someone else to drive things.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Daltrey isn\u2019t stepping away from the charity completely but will stick to working behind the scenes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">For his final year, The Who headlined two of this year\u2019s shows at London\u2019s Royal Albert Hall, and\u00a0Daltrey\u00a0headlined a third show with\u00a0a series of guests to\u00a0celebrate\u00a0his tenure as curator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The rocker revealed that before taking the stage for those shows, he was actually worried \u201cabout how many words\u201d he needed to remember for them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe haven\u2019t done anything for seven months and this winter\u2019s been brutal. I\u2019ve been in hibernation. For the whole of January, I lost my voice completely,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI live like a monk and if I went on tour for a week I\u2019d be fit as a butcher\u2019s dog again, but tonight, for the first time in my career, I think, \u2018Blimey, this is hard.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">While Daltrey seems ready to hang it up, his bandmate <strong>Pete Townshend<\/strong>\u00a0has indicated he was up for at least one more tour. In a recent interview with\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/23\/theater\/pete-townshend-tommy-broadway.html?ugrp=u&amp;unlocked_article_code=1.e00.NlZf.ugNHvl8KiHdV&amp;smid=url-share&amp;fbclid=IwAR2DWo0OlWVYQpFzmgu8Yvqq0lNIsXz9pCWTCkLrs5mM-tOt8bk86B4E4Oo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>The New York Times<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span class=\"s1\">,\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">he shared, \u201cIt feels to me like there\u2019s one thing the Who can do, and that\u2019s a final tour where we play every territory in the world and then crawl off to die.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ian West\/PA Images via Getty Images The Who\u2019s Roger Daltrey recently stepped down as curator of the annual Teenage Cancer Trust charity shows after 24 years, and he&#8217;s\u00a0now opening up about why he decided to retire from the position. \u201cI have to be realistic. I\u2019m on my way out,\u201d the<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/the-whos-roger-daltrey-looks-ahead-im-on-my-way-out\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}