1- Roger Daltrey was born on March 1, 1944
2- Roger Daltrey Plays the flute, harmonica, tambourine, and guitar
3- Roger Daltrey also a film and TV actor
4- Roger Daltrey Ranked #53 on VH1’s 100 Sexiest Artists.
5- Before becoming a member of The Who, Roger Daltrey was a sheet-metal worker.
6- His first guitar was one of his own creations: he made an imitation cherry red Stratocaster he carved from a block of wood.
7- Roger Daltrey was awarded the C.B.E. (Commander of the order of the British Empire) in the 2005
8- In May 2006 he performed “Highbury Highs,” a song especially written for a ceremony to mark Arsenal’s final football game at the Highbury Stadium in North London
9- Roger Daltrey Awarded The George and Ira Gershwin Award for Lifetime Musical Achievement at UCLA on 21 May 2016
10- In 1992, Daltrey appeared in the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, singing the hard rock Queen song “I Want It All”
12- Roger Daltrey Grew up in the same neighborhood as future Who band mates Pete Townshend and John Entwistle.
13- Roger Daltrey was enrolled at the ‘Acton County Grammar School,’ and once he graduated from high school
14- When his father bought him an Epiphone guitar in 1959, he became the lead guitarist for the skiffle
15- Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend received Kennedy Center Honors in 2008
16- Roger Daltrey Is a patron of the Teenage Cancer Trust, for which he organizes charity concerts at Royal Albert Hall.
17- Roger Daltrey was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990
18- During a Who concert on May 16, 1969 at New York City’s Fillmore East, a man rushed the stage and tried to take the microphone. Roger Daltrey punched him in the face, and Pete Townshend kicked him in the crotch. The man was actually a plain-clothes policeman trying to warn them that the grocery store next door was in the midst of a five-alarm blaze. Townshend was later arrested.
19- Daltrey has released eight solo studio albums. The first was the self-titled Daltrey in 1973
20- Daltrey received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the British Phonographic Industry in 1988
21- Roger Daltrey has been married twice: to Jackie Rickman (1964-1968) and to Heather Taylor (1971-present)
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