Rock Around The World: Roger Daltry- Article Continued/TITLE><script type="text/javascript"> var _gaq = _gaq || []; _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-9302529-2']); _gaq.push(['_trackPageview']); (function() { var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true; ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 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Daltrey also </SPAN>makes his debut as a songwriter on his solo albums here, <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >collaborating with Courtney on "Satin and Lace," "Doing </SPAN>It All Again" and "The Prisoner," a tune inspired by the autobiography of convicted robber John McVicar. "I just <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >wanted to do one song in music to encapsulate that kind of </SPAN>total desperation feeling and I think it does it." </SPAN></P> <P class=Style16 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 9.600000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 14.400000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.400000px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >The album's most basic rocker is the title track, penned <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >by long-time Who protege Steve Gibbons and delivered by </SPAN>Daltrey with a blustering tone more than a little reminiscent <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >of Alex Harvey. "It's a 1977 'My Generation'," Roger </SPAN></SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 252.250000pt; height: 401.200000pt; top: 576.150000pt; left: 536.700000pt;" > <LAYER top=768.200000px left=715.600000px width=336.333333px height=534.933333px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,336,534" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" > <P class=Style5 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 2.400000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >explains. "It could have been written by Pete Townshend.- With the short film Roger did to promote the album–where <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >he adopts the sartorial stances of Rockers, Teds, Mods and punks–in addition to his somewhat sarcastic vocal delivery, </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >some have speculated that "One Of The Boys" is an attack </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >on the punk rock brigade. </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=Style16 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 4.800000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >"It's not a send-up. The truth is we don't speak for the <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >kids today, but we never pretended to speak for anyone else but our generation. Our generation hasn't gone away. It's </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >just that another generation has joined the ball game. </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >The </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Who By Numbers, </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >obvious from a lot of people's point of </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >view, especially from young fans, must have seemed like a disaster, but I count that album as being one of the most important albums the group's ever made. The album does </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >cover a period in your life. When you're 30, you really do </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >go through a lot of change. You re-evaluate your life and </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >it's probably the first time in your life that you realize </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >that you're not immortal." </SPAN></SPAN></P> <P class=Style16 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 14.400000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Daltrey seems to have weathered the discovery of his own mortality well from all indications. Despite the lure of lucrative offers, he's refrained from doing any solo gigs in <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >order to avoid jeopardizing the delicate internal balance of </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >the Who. And thank God for that–not that I'd mind seeing </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >Roger perform on his own but the Who concert I caught </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >last year was simply one of the finest shows of recent years, </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >one of those magic nights where the feedback is melodic </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >and the firecrackers explode in perfect time to the music. </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >It's more than a little ironic to find out with </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >One Of The </SPAN><SPAN style=" font-style: italic; font-weight: normal;" >Boys </SPAN>ranking as the strongest, most consistent albums of his solo career, that Daltrey is planning to phase out his solo work. </SPAN></P> <P class=Style16 style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; text-align: left; text-indent: 14.400000px; line-height: normal ; margin-top: 21.600000px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 2.400000px; margin-left: 0px;" ><SPAN style="font-family: Bookman Old Style,serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 8pt; letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >"I only want to do one more album on my own. I never <SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >ever did it to get a kind of separate big career. My main thing is the Who. I've only done the albums for experience outside of the things that the Who do. I've tried to do </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 1.120000pt;" >material that the Who would never ever do and so far I </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >think I've been successful. I've done three albums, each one </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >different from each other and every one different from the </SPAN><SPAN style=" letter-spacing: 0.370000pt;" >Who and I'm really pleased with that." </SPAN></SPAN></P> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0pt none #FFFFFF ; width: 768.450000pt; height: 956.850000pt; top: 26.900000pt; left: 28.100000pt;" > <LAYER top=35.866667px left=37.466667px width=1024.600000px height=1275.800000px bgcolor=#FFFFFF CLIP=" 0,0,1024,1275" class=Box style=" background-color: #FFFFFF;" ><CENTER> <IMG src="0279J019_Picture1.jpg" alt="Picture" align="top" height="1275" width="1024"></CENTER> </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" border-left: 1px solid #000000 ; width: 0pt; height: 362.450000pt; top: 126.700000pt; left: 8.150000pt;" > <LAYER top=168.933333px left=10.866667px width=0px height=483.266667px CLIP=" 0,0,0,483" class=Box style=" border-left: 1px solid #000000 ;" > </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Box style=" border-left: 1px solid #000000 ; width: 0pt; height: 482.450000pt; top: 522.500000pt; left: 9.350000pt;" > <LAYER top=696.666667px left=12.466667px width=0px height=643.266667px CLIP=" 0,0,0,643" class=Box style=" border-left: 1px solid #000000 ;" > </LAYER> </DIV> <DIV class=Boxlistheight style=" width: 1093.466667px; height: 1440.800000px; top: 20px;" > </DIV> </ILAYER> </DIV> <HR NOSHADE size=3 align=center><CENTER> <TABLE width="80%"> <TR> <TD align="left" ></TD> <TD align="right" ></TD></TR></TABLE></CENTER> </BODY></HTML>