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This easy-to-follow tutorial is ideal if you've just bought your first bass guitar, or if there's been a guitar sitting around somewhere just waiting to be played.... This DVD will take you from novice level through to intermediate level, yet it requires no prior knowledge at all; it truly is for someone starting "from scratch."
Each of the carefully designed chapters introduce commonly used scales and techniques gradually and strategically, along with some practical theory- nothing too demanding, just enough to help you understand what you're doing and why.
You'll soon be playing scales, picking out melodies and, hopefully, writing some songs of your own! Making music has never been so easy!
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BASS TEACHER: PHIL WILLIAMS is a highly sought after freelance bass player, writer and teacher. He has played and toured with many well-known bands and artists as diverse as Gary Barlow (Solo Artist , & Take That), Roger Daltrey (Solo Artist & The Who) and Keith Emerson (Solo Artist & Emerson, Lake & Palmer) to name just a few. His playing can be heard on numerous film and TV soundtracks.
Running time: 1 hour 36 minutes
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Gary Barlow | |
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Background information | |
Birth name | Gary Barlow |
Born |
20 January 1971 (1971-01-20)
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Years active |
1988-present |
Labels |
Sony Music (1990-1999) Polydor (2005-) (2009-) |
Associated acts | Take That |
Gary Barlow (born 20 January 1971 in Frodsham, Cheshire) is an English singer-songwriter, pianist and producer. He is a member and lead vocalist of the pop-rock group Take That. Barlow is one of Britain's most successful songwriters. He has had two Number 1 hits and a Number 1 album along with five other top 40 UK singles as a solo singer in the last half of the 1990s, and has had eleven Number 1 singles and seven Number 1 albums with Take That.[1] He is a five-time recipient of the prestigious Ivor Novello Award and has been voted the greatest British songwriter of all time.[2]
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[3] In his autobiography, Barlow relates that his love of music began at an early age.
"I was one of those kids that's forever dancing in front of the TV looking at my reflection."
He said he enjoyed watching Top Of The Pops on television, and when he was ten years old, he watched an episode of the programme in which Depeche Mode were performing their new single "Just Can't Get Enough". Barlow was mesmerised by the sound and decided he wanted a keyboard for Christmas. For the next few years, he spent most of his spare time teaching himself to play his favourite songs.[3]
In 1986 Barlow entered a BBC Pebble Mill at One competition called A Song For Christmas with a song called Let's Pray For Christmas. After getting through to the semi-finals, he was invited to London's West Heath Studios to record his song. This inspired Barlow to perform on the northern club circuit, singing cover versions and his own songs.[citation needed]
Barlow's first performance was at the Connah's Quay Labour Cub in the late eighties and he was paid £18 per performance on Saturday evenings.[4]
In 1989 he appointed Wigan show business agent Barry Woolley to be his manager and recorded a single (Love Is In The Air) under the stage name Kurtis Rush. After the single's commercial failure, Barlow came under the influence of pop manager Nigel Martin-Smith and formed Take That, becoming the lead singer. He was introduced to Martin-Smith by Manchester photographer Michael Braham whom Barlow paid to take publicity shots. Braham, an aspiring actor at the time, was also represented by Martin-Smith and knew he was looking for members to form a pop group as Britain's answer to New Kids on the Block, who had become a worldwide phenomenon.
Barlow, who wrote the majority of the group's songs, is generally recognised as the musical talent behind Take That.[5] The five-piece vocal group consisted of Barlow, Howard Donald, Jason Orange, Mark Owen and Robbie Williams. The UK group were signed to RCA records, and after a number of top 40 hits, eventually secured their first Number 1 with Barlow's Pray. Previous hits included A Million Love Songs, It Only Takes A Minute and Could It Be Magic - also written by Barlow.
The debut album Take That & Party was released on August 17, 1992. It reached number 2 on the UK Album Chart. The following year saw the release of their second album, Everything Changes based on Barlow's own material. It went straight in at number 1 in the UK Album Chart and spawned four number 1 singles, as well as Why Can't I Wake Up With You and Love Ain't Here Anymore hitting number 2 and 3 respectively.[6] Barlow received an Ivor Novello Award for Best Contemporary Song in 1994 for the number 1 hit song Pray included on the album.[7] Their third album Nobody Else, again based on Barlow's own material, went straight to number 1 and was to be their last studio album of the 90s. The album had three number 1 singles, including Barlow's Back For Good which peaked at number 7 on the US Billboard Hot 100 [8] and was brought forward an unprecedented 6 weeks before its official release such was the demand for the single.[9] A Greatest Hits collection followed again reaching number 1. The album featured the band's eighth number 1 single How Deep Is Your Love. This was to be the first single released by Take That as a four piece (without Robbie Williams) and it was their last single until they reformed in 2005.
Barlow's solo career was predicted to be very successful, being described as 'the next George Michael'. His first two solo singles Forever Love and Love Won't Wait both leapt to the number one spot in his home country. Forever Love was also used as the soundtrack to the film The Leading Man. His debut album Open Road reached number 1 in the UK Album Chart. Barlow's first ever single to be released in the United States as a solo artist was So Help Me Girl which reached Number 44 on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart and Number 1 on the US Billboard Adult Contemporary Chart. He then achieved another top ten hit in the UK with Open Road peaking at number 7[10] and a number 8 in the Netherlands with Are You Ready Now[11]. After the success of his first solo album he released his second LP Twelve Months, Eleven Days in 1999. Barlow released Stronger as the lead single preceding the album however due to an expected backlash against Barlow it received minimal promotion and airplay and peaked at number 16[12]. The second single For All That You Want again was subjected to minimal radio play and peaked at number 24, however it peaked just outside the top 5 in Finland.[13] Twelve Months, Eleven Days was released soon after the second single to little promotion and peaked at a disappointing number 34, which led to Sony recalling Barlow's 'greatest' song according to critics, the scheduled third single from his second album Lie To Me.[14] This resulted in both Barlow and BMG parting company.
On August 17 2008 he took part in a birthday tribute concert for songwriter Don Black, Lyrics by Don Black, at the London Palladium. He performed the song Born Free, originally a hit for Matt Monro, with guest conductor David Arnold.
Barlow is credited as Director of Music for the ITV series, Britannia High which ran from October to December in 2008. The musical drama was dropped after a first series due to poor ratings.[15]
Barlow has also announced that he is to re release his second solo album Twelve Months, Eleven Days sometime in the upcoming future with new songs to be featured.[16]
In early 2010, Barlow was asked to sing on the Helping Haiti charity single Everybody Hurts by music mogul Simon Cowell alongside some of the biggest names in the music industry including fellow bandmates, Jason Orange, Mark Owen and Robbie Williams.[17] Barlow sings the vocals on the chorus of the single which sold 453,000 copies in its first week and went straight to number 1 with all proceeds going to help those affected by the Haiti Earthquake.[18]
Barlow announced in 2010 that he would release a single entitled Shame alongside Robbie Williams. The single is set for release on 4 October 2010 and will be featured on Williams' greatest hits album, In and Out of Consciousness: The Greatest Hits 1990–2010
After leaving his career as a solo artist Barlow returned to his first love of writing music. He soon signed a song writing publishing deal with Sony and went to the USA on a 6 month songwriting project, residing in Nashville, Los Angeles and New York with his wife, Dawn and first child, Daniel. Upon his return he set up True North Productions with Elliot Kennedy and Tim Woodcock. In his autobiography 'My Take' Barlow partly blames his fall as a solo artist on his commitments to being a star in the United States. After his disappointing second album, Barlow remained out of the public eye, choosing to continue to write songs for other artists such as Shirley Bassey, Charlotte Church and Will Young.
Gary Barlow has recently signed a new 5 year song writing publishing deal with Sony music.[19] He has also been voted as the greatest British songwriter of all time, ahead of Paul McCartney and John Lennon of The Beatles.[2]
In 2009 Barlow began work on his own record label Future Records and signed his first artist, classical singer Camilla Kerslake.[20] Since then Barlow has also signed UK rapper Aggro Santos to his label.[21]
Barlow returned to the limelight in a successful TV documentary, Take That: For the Record in 2005. Following this success and renewed interest, Take That experienced a career renaissance in 2005 when the post-Williams line-up reformed for a sell-out stadium tour. The band then released the single Patience which peaked at number 1 for four weeks. Patience was also voted The Record of the Year in 2006 and won a Brit for single of the year.[22] This was followed with Shine which became the bands tenth number 1 single. Take That released their first album of new material in over ten years, Beautiful World on November 24 2006. The album peaked at number 1 in the UK Album Chart. It was re released as a tour edition with hit single Rule The World in 2007 and peaked again at number 1.
In 2008, the band were nominated for four Brit Awards (Best British Group, Best British Album, Best British Single and Best British Live Act). They won Best British Single and Best British Live Act. After great success in 2006, Take That released the single Greatest Day which peaked at number 1 and became their eleventh number 1 single in the UK. The week after they released their second album since their reunion in 2006, The Circus which was the most preordered album of all time.[23] The Circus album was also a great success for Take That going straight to the top of the UK album chart and selling over 2 million copies across the country, going multi platinum within 4 days of its release.[24][25] In June and July Take That performed on their record breaking Circus tour all across the United Kingdom selling sold over 1 million tickets in just 5 hours.[26]
It has been announced that Barlow is in the process of writing Take That's much anticipated sixth studio album, set for release in late 2010[27]. The album will be the first to feature the original lineup since their 1995 album, Nobody Else. The band have also announced a stadium tour which will take place in 2011.[28]
The media have widely acknowledged Barlow's talent and labelled him as the mastermind behind the unprecedented success of Take That's comeback[29] and the new musical direction they have taken.[30]
In 2000, Barlow made his acting debut in the ITV1 drama Heartbeat. This was the 150th edition of the show. He played hitch-hiker Micky Shannon.[31]
Gary organised a sponsored climb to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money for Comic Relief. Barlow and eight other celebrities: Cheryl Cole, Ben Shephard, Alesha Dixon, Kimberley Walsh, Fearne Cotton, Chris Moyles, Denise Van Outen and Ronan Keating, made it to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro safely on Sunday 7 March 2009, raising millions for Comic Relief.[32]
Gary's charity efforts in 2009, including his organising of the BT Comic Relief Kilimanjaro Climb and his organising of 'Children In Need Rocks', raised in excess £6 million. In addition to the charity events organised by Gary, the pop star has also shown support for fellow artists' charity efforts including that of Ronan Keating. The pair belted out Take That's Back For Good at Ronan's Emerald and Ivy Ball[33] in Battersea, South London, on Saturday. The starry bash raised £650,000 for Cancer Research UK.
His organisation of a very special event at the Royal Albert Hall went ahead in November 2009 and was broadcast the following week. This saw a meeting of Take That with Robbie Williams on stage and a number of unusual duets (including Dame Shirley Bassey with Dizzy Rascal and Take That with Lily Allen). Gary dedicated the band's song Rule the World to "everyone whose lost some one - Dad this is for you". It was a very special night raising £2M and ending with Gary seeming to promise it could be an annual event.
It was announced in December 2009 that Barlow had been awarded the prestigious Blue Peter Gold Badge, awarded for outstanding achievements and inspiring children to realise their talents and achieve.[34]
To celebrate his 10th wedding anniversary Gary invited family and many friends to a special event in London. It was a rare event that Gary allowed a popular magazine to photograph the event. A highlight was a special Bingo session hosted by Gary. Money raised at the event was donated to Barnardo's. His promise to use his fame for good the second time around is certainly being kept.
Towards the end of 2009, there has been a huge twitter campaign to 'Get Gary Knighted' for all of his charity work over the years.[35][36] The campaign has been mentioned and endorsed by many celebrities, including Chris Moyles of Radio 1.
At the beginning of May 2010, it was announced that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II had asked Gary Barlow to organise her 85th birthday and her Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 2012. A source said: "Her Majesty has been made well aware of his charity work and the events he has put together. She knows that Gary has got the power to pull in the big names across the music industry and to ensure it's a party to match the occasion".[37][38]
It has been announced that Gary Barlow is planning to organise a charity walk to the North Pole to raise money for BBC Sport Relief.[39]
Barlow was born on 20 January 1971 to parents Marjorie and Colin Barlow. Gary has an older brother, Ian. He married his long-time girlfriend Dawn Andrews (*July 1970) on 12 January 2000. They met on 'Nobody Else' Tour in 1995 where she worked as a back-up dancer and is still a dancer for the band. They have three children - Daniel (*2000), Emily (*2002) and Daisy (*2009).[40] Barlow is a popular believer in the law of attraction and credits this theory of thought with much of his success. He revealed in his autobiography that he is a supporter of Liverpool FC with their anthem, You'll Never Walk Alone being one of the first songs he learned to play on piano[41].
In his autobiography My Take, Barlow mentions he was on the Edgware Road tube train that was one of the targets of the 7 July 2005 London bombings.
In 2009, Barlow named "Don't Give Up", the 1986 duet between Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush, as the song that had most inspired him. He said: "I don't think you can listen to this song without feeling inspired, it could save anybody. The lyrics are so inspirational. Specifically I was having a very low moment in the 1990s and the song came on the radio. There have only been a very few times when I've had to pull the car over to listen to a song – this was one of them."[42]
Barlow's father Colin died aged 71 on 15 October 2009.[43] The singer rushed back to his parents home in Frodsham, Cheshire, and cancelled an engagement to launch his celebrity-packed Children in Need show.[44] whilst also postponing the launch of the Take That edition of Singstar.
During the 2010 General Election the Conservative Party announced their intention to encourage musical achievement amongst young people in schools with a competition called School Stars. Barlow appeared at a school staged campaign event and sang Greatest Day, backing the programme and the Conservative Party leader, David Cameron[45]
Year | Title | Peak Chart Position | ||||||||||||
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UK [46] |
GER [47] |
NL [48] |
FIN [49] |
SWE [50] |
NO [51] |
AUT [52] |
SWI [53] |
BEL (WA) [54] |
BEL (VL) [55] |
AUS [56] |
NZ [57] |
US [58] | ||
1997 | Open Road | 1 | 10 | 13 | 29 | 25 | 34 | 13 | 6 | 20 | 7 | 30 | 43 | - |
1999 | Twelve Months, Eleven Days | 35 | 67 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Year | Title | Peak Chart Position | Album | |||||||||||||||
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UK [46] |
IRE [59] |
GER [60] |
NL [48] |
FIN [49] |
SWE [50] |
NO [51] |
AUT [52] |
SWI [53] |
FRA [61] |
BEL (WA) [54] |
BEL (VL) [55] |
AUS [56] |
NZ [57] |
US [62] |
US A.C. [58] | |||
1996 | "Forever Love" | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 27 | 4 | 5 | 7 | - | - | - | Open Road |
1997 | "Love Won't Wait" | 1 | 5 | 35 | 32 | 16 | 53 | - | 20 | 23 | - | - | 43 | 16 | 42 | - | - | |
"So Help Me Girl" | 11 | 14 | 78 | 58 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 36 | - | 44 | 3 | ||
"Open Road" | 7 | 29 | 63 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
"Are You Ready Now" | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1998 | "Hang On In There Baby" | - | - | 69 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
"Superhero" | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 106 | 23 | ||
1999 | "Stronger" | 16 | - | 73 | - | 11 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | Twelve Months, Eleven Days |
"For All That You Want" | 24 | - | 94 | - | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
"Lie To Me" | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2010 | "Shame" (with Robbie Williams) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | In and Out of Consciousness |
As featured artist | ||||||||||||||||||
2010 | "Everybody Hurts" (with Helping Haiti) | 1 | 1 | 16 | - | - | 21 | - | - | 16 | - | - | - | - | 17 | - | - | Single Only |
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NAME | Barlow, Gary |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | |
SHORT DESCRIPTION | English musician |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1971-01-20 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Frodsham, Cheshire, England |
DATE OF DEATH | |
PLACE OF DEATH |
Roger Daltrey | |
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Roger Daltrey at the Hyde Park Live 8 concert (2005) | |
Background information | |
Birth name | Roger Harry Daltrey |
Born | 1 March 1944 (1944-03-01) Hammersmith, London, England |
Genres | Rock, hard rock, pop rock, art rock |
Occupations | Singer–songwriter, musician, actor, film producer |
Instruments | Vocals, guitar, harmonica, percussion, trombone |
Years active | 1959–present |
Labels | Various |
Associated acts | The Who The RD Crusaders |
Roger Harry Daltrey CBE (born 1 March 1944) is an English singer-songwriter and actor, best known as the founder and lead singer of English rock band The Who. He has maintained a musical career as a solo artist and has also worked in the film industry, acting in a large number of films, theatre and television roles and also producing films. Daltrey is ranked by Hit Parader as the seventeenth greatest heavy metal singer of all time [1].
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Roger Harry Daltrey was born in the Hammersmith area of London, but was raised in Acton, the same working class suburban neighbourhood that produced fellow Who members Pete Townshend and John Entwistle. He was one of three children born to parents Irene and Harry Daltrey, and grew up with two sisters, Gillian and Carol. Harry Daltrey worked for a water closet manufacturer, and Irene Daltrey was told she would be unable to have children because of losing a kidney in 1937. Nevertheless, she went into labour during a World War II air raid and gave birth to her son at the nearby Hammersmith Hospital, West London. At the age of three, the young Roger swallowed a rusty nail which had to be surgically removed, leaving a visible scar. At the age of five, the rust from the nail caused an ulcer in his stomach which required him to be hospitalised.
Daltrey attended Victoria Primary School and then Acton County Grammar School for boys along with Pete Townshend and John Entwistle. He showed academic promise in the English state school system, ranking at the top of his class on the eleven plus examination that led to his enrolment at the Acton County Grammar School. His parents hoped he would eventually continue on to study at the university, but Daltrey turned out to be a self-described "school rebel" and developed a dedicated interest in the emerging rock and roll music scene instead.
He made his first guitar from a block of wood and formed a skiffle band called The Detours. When his father bought him an Epiphone guitar in 1959, he became the lead guitarist for the band and soon afterwards was expelled from school for smoking. Describing the post-war times, Pete Townshend wrote in his autobiography, "Until he was expelled, Roger had been a good pupil. Then he heard Elvis and transmogrified into a Teddy Boy with an electric guitar and a dress-sneer. Was it simply rock ‘n’ roll? It was obvious to a young man as intelligent as Roger that there was no future in conforming any more."
Daltrey became a sheet metal worker during the day, while practicing and performing nights with the band at weddings, pubs and men's clubs. He invited schoolmate John Entwistle to play bass in the band, and on the advice of Entwistle, invited Pete Townshend to play guitar. At that time, the band consisted of Daltrey on lead guitar, Pete Townshend on rhythm guitar, John Entwistle on bass, Doug Sandom on drums and Colin Dawson on lead vocals. After Colin Dawson left the band, Daltrey switched to vocals and played harmonica as well, while Townshend became the lead guitarist. In 1964 drummer Doug Sandom left the band, eventually being replaced by Keith Moon.
Early on, Daltrey was the band's leader, earning a reputation for using his fists to exercise control when needed, despite his small stature (his height is reportedly 5 feet 7 inches (1.70 m)). According to Townshend, Roger "ran things the way he wanted. If you argued with him, you usually got a bunch of fives."[1] He generally selected the music they performed, including songs by The Beatles, various Motown artists, James Brown, and other rock standards.
In 1964 the group discovered another band working as The Detours and discussed changing their name. Pete Townshend suggested "The Hair" and Townshend's roommate Richard Barnes suggested "The Who." The next morning, Daltrey made the decision for the band, saying "It's The Who, innit?"
During 1964, band manager Peter Meaden renamed the band The High Numbers as part of a move to establish the band as Mod favourites. The name was a reference to the T-shirts with "numbers" that the Mods used at the time. Pete Meaden composed Mod songs for them (in fact, the songs were almost copies of Mod hits at the time, with changed lyrics) and they released one single, "I'm The Face/Zoot Suit", on Fontana Records. The single was unsuccessful.
After Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp discovered The High Numbers at the Railway Hotel, the band quickly changed their name back to The Who, since neither Lambert nor Stamp liked the name "The High Numbers".
With the band's first hit single and record deal in early 1965, Townshend began writing original material and Daltrey's dominance of the band began to decline.
The other members of The Who expelled Daltrey from the band in late 1965 after he beat up drummer Keith Moon for supplying drugs to Townshend and Entwistle, causing him to re-examine his methods of dealing with people. A week later, Daltrey was admitted back to the band, but was told he'd be on probation. He promised there would be no more violent outbursts or assaults. Daltrey recalled, "I thought if I lost the band I was dead. If I didn't stick with The Who, I would be a sheet metal worker for the rest of my life."
The band's second single, "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere" was the only song on which Daltrey and Townshend collaborated, and Daltrey only wrote two other songs for the band during these years. As Townshend developed into one of rock's most accomplished composers, Daltrey's vocals became the vehicle through which Townshend's visions were expressed, and he gained an equally vaunted reputation as a powerful vocalist and riveting frontman. The Who's stage act was highly energetic, and Daltrey's habit of swinging the microphone around by its cord on stage became his signature move.
Daltrey's stuttering expression of youthful anger, frustration and arrogance in the band's breakthrough single, "My Generation", captured the revolutionary feeling of the 1960s for many young people around the world and became the band's trademark. Later, his scream near the end of "Won't Get Fooled Again" became a defining moment in rock and roll. (Note: The stuttering was initially introduced by Pete Townshend on the demo for "My Generation" as a way of expressing the rapid-fire speech of the Mods at the time. Daltrey followed the demo faithfully in this regard.)
In October 1973, Townshend was at a low point after struggling through the rock opera Lifehouse and Quadrophenia projects, and Daltrey was experiencing success with his solo projects and acting roles. Daltrey had quite a bit of free time while others of the band worked on recording the music for Quadrophenia, and he used some of this time to check The Who's books. He found they had fallen into disarray under the management of Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp. Kit Lambert was also Pete Townshend's artistic mentor and challenging him led to renewed tension within the band. During a filming session (in an incident that Daltrey claimed was overblown) Townshend and Daltrey argued over the schedule. Townshend whacked the singer over the head with his guitar and Daltrey responded by knocking Townshend unconscious, again with a single blow.[2]
With each of The Who's milestone achievements, Tommy, Who's Next, and Quadrophenia, Daltrey was the face and voice of the band as they defined themselves as the ultimate rebels in a generation of change. When Ken Russell's adaptation of Tommy appeared as a feature film in 1975, Daltrey played the lead role, was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for "Best Acting Debut in a Motion Picture" and appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine on 10 April 1975. Afterward, Daltrey worked with Russell again, starring as Franz Liszt in Lisztomania. He worked with Rick Wakeman on the soundtrack to this film, writing the lyrics to three songs and also performing these, as well as others.
The Who went on after the death of Keith Moon in 1978, but tension continued as Daltrey felt new drummer Kenney Jones was the wrong choice for The Who. In 1980 Daltrey completed a major project for The Who Films, Ltd., a dramatic film called McVicar about U.K. bank robber John McVicar. Daltrey produced and starred in the film, and completed a striking soundtrack with other members of the band. This success, along with other stresses, contributed to a deterioration of relations with Townshend, and The Who retired from active touring in 1982 when Townshend felt he was no longer able to write for the band. The band continued to work together sporadically, reuniting for the Live Aid concert and recording songs for Daltrey's solo album Under a Raging Moon and Townshend's solo album Iron Man.
Daltrey turned to working as an actor, completing such high profile projects as The Beggar's Opera and The Comedy of Errors for the BBC. He also appeared in several film, television and stage productions during this period, including Mike Batt's The Hunting of the Snark (1987), The Little Match Girl (1987), Buddy's Song (1990), which he also produced, and Mack the Knife (1990). In 1991 he received a Grammy Award with The Chieftains for An Irish Evening: Live at the Grand Opera House, Belfast.
The Who returned in 1989 with their 25th Anniversary Tour, which was also the 20th anniversary of the rock opera Tommy. The tour featured a large backing band and guest appearances by Steve Winwood, Patti LaBelle, Phil Collins and Elton John. Although Daltrey experienced severe health problems due to an abdominal hemangioma, he managed to complete the tour. He continued to work on stage and screen during this period, completing projects such as The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True (1995) appearing as the Tin Woodman alongside Nathan Lane, Joel Grey, Natalie Cole, and Jewel Kilcher as Dorothy. During this time, he also began to appear in U.S. television shows.
In 1994 Daltrey celebrated his 50th birthday by performing a two-night spectacular at Carnegie Hall titled A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who, and popularly called Daltrey Sings Townshend. The show was produced by Daltrey's manager at the time, Richard Flanzer. The Who's music was arranged for orchestra by Michael Kamen, who conducted The Juilliard Orchestra for the event. Bob Ezrin, who produced Pink Floyd's The Wall CD, among other famous albums, produced the live CD. Pete Townshend, John Entwistle, Eddie Vedder (who performed a special acoustic tribute), Sinéad O'Connor, Lou Reed, David Sanborn, Alice Cooper, Linda Perry, The Chieftains and others performed as special guests. Michael Lindsay-Hogg directed the telecast, which was aired on satellite TV. The concert, at the time, was the fastest sell out in the famed venue's history. The event was followed by a major tour financed by Daltrey and including John Entwistle on bass, Zak Starkey on drums and Simon Townshend on guitar. Although the tour was considered an artistic success, it failed to make a profit due to the expense of providing extraordinary musicians and orchestras in every city to replicate the Carnegie Hall event. Significantly, the tour attracted attention to songs from The Who's rock opera Quadrophenia and gathered support for a staging and major tour of the rock opera in 1996-1997.
In 1996 Pete Townshend was approached to produce Quadrophenia for The Prince's Trust concert at Hyde Park, London. He at first planned to perform the opera as a solo acoustic piece using parts of the film on the screens, but after receiving offers of financing decided on a full-out production. When he first contacted Daltrey to request a collaboration, Daltrey refused, but after some discussion, he agreed to help produce a one-off performance. The opera was performed with a large backing band, including John Entwistle on bass, Pete Townshend on acoustic guitar and vocals, Zak Starkey on drums, Rabbit Bundrick and Jon Carin on keyboards, Simon Townshend on guitar and special guests including David Gilmour, Adrian Edmondson, Trevor McDonald and Gary Glitter. A horn section and backing vocalists were added, along with other actors. On the night before the show, Daltrey was struck in the face by a microphone stand swung by Gary Glitter. The accident fractured his eye socket and caused considerable concern that he might not be able to perform safely, but Daltrey donned an eye-patch to cover the bruises and completed the show as scheduled. Afterward, Townshend decided to take the production on tour in 1996-1997 as The Who.
After their Quadrophenia tour was successful, the band returned as The Who in a stripped-down, five-piece lineup for tours in 1999-2000. The band continued to work together, making a major impact at The Concert for New York City. After Entwistle's death in June 2002, both Daltrey and Townshend decided to continue with an already planned tour as The Who. Bassist Pino Palladino was chosen to fill Entwistle's place. The band also completed a brief tour in 2004. In 2006, they released their first studio album of new material in twenty-four years, Endless Wire, leading some fans and critics to say that the highly acclaimed artistic tension within The Who lay between the two principals Daltrey and Townshend. The band completed a world tour in 2006-2007 to support this album.
In February 2010, Townshend and Daltrey, headlining as The Who, performed the halftime show at Super Bowl XLIV in front of 105.97 million viewers across the globe. In March 2010, Townshend and Daltrey, along with an extensive backing band, performed Quadrophenia at the Royal Albert Hall in London as a tenth anniversary charity benefit for the Teenage Cancer Trust. Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam sang the part of the Godfather, and Tom Meighan of Kasabian sang the part of Aceface.[3] Tom Norris, London Symphony Orchestra Co-Principal Second Violin, played violin for the production. On 3 July He performed the Opening act for Eric Clapton at DTE Energy music theatre.
When Colin Dawson left The Detours, Roger Daltrey took over as lead vocalist, giving up his guitar. The band as a whole acknowledged Moon's and Entwistle's innovation and talent on their instruments, and Pete Townshend had begun writing hit songs, but Daltrey struggled to find a voice to present their new music. His expression carried Townshend’s material well enough in recordings, and at the time his live persona suited the small club scene where The Who made their beginnings. However, this presentation lacked the confidence of later years, and he was arguably still a singer seeking a voice.
The Who first toured North America in 1967, appearing at the Monterey Pop Festival, and Daltrey brought back new experiences in dealing with larger venues and stages. 1968 proved a pivotal year with Townshend's movement beyond the quick three minute single towards his goal of writing a rock opera. Beginning with "A Quick One While He's Away", a nine minute mini-opera, Daltrey’s performance in The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus showed him with a new confidence in dealing with Townshend’s material. In 1969 The Who’s first major rock opera Tommy was released, and Daltrey found a voice for the lead character that carried The Who to world stardom at such music venues as Woodstock and the Isle of Wight Festival, and in opera houses around the world during the next two years. Townshend later remarked in the film Amazing Journey, that with Tommy, and with Daltrey's adaptation to portraying the character on-stage, the singer evolved from what was essentially a tight, tough guy to one who outstretched his arms, bared his body to the audiences, and began to truly engage them. "With this change, the band was at last complete," he summed up. "It was a marriage," Townshend emphasised, "but it was a good marriage. Those were glorious years". Daltrey confirmed this, saying, he felt at last accepted, displaying a newly energetic role and sound during live performances.
Daltrey has long been known as one of the most charismatic of rock’s frontmen. His stage persona embraces the audience and projects The Who’s repertoire as heroic anthems and touching ballads that have gripped the emotions and imagination of audiences for over forty years. According to Pete Townshend, "He almost invented the pseudo-messianic role taken up later by Jim Morrison and Robert Plant."[4] Daltrey projected a naturally masculine and yet refined power that proved to be one of the most potent in rock and roll history. This persona has earned him a position as one of the “gods of rock and roll”[5] His appearance in the early 1970s included striking, long blond curly hair with a sexual magnetism built for teenage appeal. This look would became markedly more masculine as the seventies and eighties progressed. Daltrey developed a trademark move of swinging and throwing his microphone through a complex sequence, matching these sequences with the tempo of the song that was being played at the moment. Although Daltrey reduced the athleticism of his performance during later years, his presentation remained dynamic and gripping.
Roger Daltrey hand-built his first guitar from a piece of plywood and also built guitars for the band in the early days when they had little money to buy equipment.[6] As lead guitarist for the Detours, Daltrey played an 1961 Epiphone Wilshire solidbody electric guitar which he later sold to Pete Townshend on an easy payment plan.[7][8] After he took over vocals for the band in the sixties and during the seventies, Daltrey rarely played guitar on stage; however, he played a Martin acoustic guitar for appearances to promote his solo album Daltrey.[9] He began playing guitar with The Who again during the band's tours in the eighties, and used a Fender Esquire to play a second guitar part for the song "Eminence Front" on The Who's 1982, 1989 and later tours.[10] During the 1989 tour, he played a Gibson Chet Atkins SST guitar for the song "Hey Joe." During The Who's 1996-97 Quadrophenia tour, Daltrey played a Gibson J-200 acoustic guitar.[11]
After 1999, it became more common for Daltrey to play guitar during both The Who and solo shows. He ordered a Versoul Buxom 6 handmade acoustic guitar that he played on The Who's 2002 tour.[12] Daltrey owns a Gibson Everly Brothers Flattop acoustic guitar which he played on The Who and solo tours in the late 2000s.[13] On his 2009 tour with No Plan B, Daltrey played Pete Townshend's "Blue, Red and Grey" on an Ashbury cutaway tenor EQ ukulele.[14]
Roger Daltrey is known as one of the harmonica players who brought the instrument out of blues and into popular music.[15] Although the mouth harps that Daltrey uses have varied over the years, brands he has used include Hohner and Lee Oskar harmonicas.[16] Daltrey plays using the blues harp (2nd position) or cross harp technique which originated in blues music.
Daltrey uses Shure microphones with cords which he tapes to reinforce the connection and avoid cutting his hands when he swings and catches the microphone. He commonly uses a standard Shure SM58,[17] but has also used Shure SM78 (in 1981), Shure model 565D Unisphere 1, and Shure model 548 Unidyne IV.[18] Daltrey also uses a hybrid monitoring system with one in-ear monitor supplemented by floor wedges.[19]
In 1976 Roger Daltrey was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for "Best Acting Debut in a Motion Picture" for his starring role in the film version of The Who's rock opera Tommy. He also performed as a guest on the Chieftains' recording of Irish Evening: Live at the Grand Opera House which won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album in 1993. With The Who, Daltrey received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001 for outstanding artistic significance in music.
In 1990 Daltrey was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio as a member of The Who.[20] The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame also included three songs that Daltrey recorded with The Who on the list of 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll, including: "My Generation", "Go to the Mirror Boy", and "Baba O'Riley".[21] In 2005 Daltrey received a British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors Gold Badge Award for special and lasting contributions to the British entertainment industry.[22][23]
In 2003, Daltrey was honoured by Time magazine as a European Hero for his work with the Teenage Cancer Trust and other charities.[24] In the New Year's Honours List published on 31 December 2004, he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to Music, the Entertainment Industry, and Charity.[25]
As a member of The Who, Daltrey was inducted in 2005 into the UK Music Hall of Fame.[26] In December 2008, he and Pete Townshend were honoured with America's most prestigious cultural awards as recipients of the 31st annual Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D.C. by then-President of the United States, George W. Bush.[27] On 4 March 2009, three days after his 65th birthday, Daltrey accepted the James Joyce Award from the Literary and Historical Society of University College Dublin for outstanding success in the music field.[28]
Roger Daltrey supports many charities both as a solo artist and jointly with other members of The Who. All The Who's Encore Series profits go to young peoples' charities. Roger Daltrey was instrumental in starting the Teenage Cancer Trust concert series in 2000, with The Who actually playing in 2000, 2002, 2004, 2007 and 2010. Daltrey played benefits with The RD Crusaders in 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008; performed with The Who at Live 8 in 2005, for the Nordoff-Robbins Silver Clef benefit in 2005, and for the Los Angeles area City of Hope benefit in 2001 and 2004. The Who played with special guest Michael J. Fox at the 2008 "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Cure Parkinson's" benefit.
With The Who, he performed for the Robin Hood Foundation at The Concert for New York City and other benefits in 2001; at Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit in 1999; and in the Quadrophenia Concert for The Prince's Trust in Hyde Park, 1996. In addition, Daltrey performed at benefits in Vail, Colorado, in 1999, and attended a PETA benefit with Sarah McLachlan and Chrissie Hynde in the same year.
Daltrey appeared in The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True in 1995 for The Children's Defense Fund, and at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert to benefit AIDS research in 1992. Roger Daltrey's 1994 Celebration raised funds to support Babies and Children Hospital in New York City, as well.
He sang "Rock and Roll" on a charity single released as McEnroe & Cash with The Full Metal Rackets for Rock Aid Armenia in 1986, and performed with The Who at Live Aid in 1985 and Concert for Kampuchea in 1979. In 1976, he performed at the Celtic Football Ground in Glasgow, Scotland. An audience of 35,000 attended and a sum of over £100,000 was donated to charity.
Daltrey performed at the first ChildLine Rocks concert at London's IndigO2 on 13 March 2008.[29] In 2009 Daltrey was a judge for the 8th annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists.[30] [31] In the same year, he appeared again on stage with Michael J. Fox for the "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Cure Parkinson's" benefit. In April 2010, he headlined the Imagine A Cure II show honouring the legacy of John Lennon, which raised money for the Puget Sound Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer charity.
Daltrey has been married twice. In 1964, he married the former Jacqueline "Jackie" Rickman, and had one child, born in 1965, Simon. The couple divorced in 1968. In 1967, Daltrey's son Mathias was born, the result of an affair with Swedish model Elisabeth Aronsson[32]. In 1971, he met the American Heather Taylor, his current wife. Together, they have three children, Rosie Lea (born in 1972), Willow Amber (born in 1975)[33] and Jamie (born in 1981). He also has four granddaughters, Lily, Lola, Ramona and Scarlet; and one grandson, Jonjo. He also has three other children from relationships during the sixties.[34]
Daltrey owns a country estate near Burwash, East Sussex, as well as his parents' old home in London. In the 2000s, he bought a home in the Los Angeles area of Southern California.
Daltrey is a supporter of the Countryside Alliance and has played concerts to raise funds for the organisation.[35]
Roger Daltrey contributed to a collection of childhood fishing stories published in 1996 entitled I Remember: Reflections on Fishing in Childhood.[36]
Although never a writing force in The Who and overshadowed by the song writing talents of Townshend and Entwistle, Daltrey did contribute a small handful of songs to the band's catalogue during their early career:
Daltrey also wrote a song called "Crossroads Now" for The Who which grew out of an onstage jam in 1999 after the song "My Generation."[37] Another Daltrey song, entitled "Certified Rose," was rehearsed by The Who shortly before the death of John Entwistle. The band had planned on playing it (as well as Townshend's "Real Good Looking Boy") during their 2002 tour, but plans were halted after Entwistle's death.[38] Although it was rumoured that a studio version was recorded during the Endless Wire sessions (and might feature Entwistle's basslines from 2002), Townshend later stated that no such recording was made.[39]
"Early Morning Cold Taxi", a song recorded during The Who Sell Out sessions in 1967 and released in 1994 on the Thirty Years of Maximum R&B boxset, is credited to Roger Daltrey and Who roadie Dave "Cy" Langston. Some sources report that the song was solely written by Langston.[40] At the time Daltrey and Langston were planning to form a writing-partnership, where all songs written by either of them would be credited as Daltrey/Langston. The partnership did not produce any other songs (besides an unreleased demo titled "Blue Caravan.") Langston went on to play guitar on John Entwistle's first solo album, Smash Your Head Against the Wall, in 1970.
Daltrey has released eight solo albums. The first was the self-titled Daltrey in 1973, recorded during a hiatus in The Who's touring schedule. The top single off the album, "Giving It All Away", reached number five in the UK and the album, which introduced Leo Sayer as a songwriter, made the Top 50 in the United States. The inner sleeve photography shows a trompe-l'œil in reference to the Narcissus myth, as Daltrey's reflection in the water differs from his real appearance. He also released a single in 1973, "Thinking" with "There is Love" on the B-side.
Daltrey's second album, Ride a Rock Horse, was released in 1975 and is his second most commercially successful solo album. Its cover, photographed by Daltrey's cousin Graham Hughes, is remarkable for depicting the singer as a rampant centaur.
When Sayer launched his own career as an artist, Daltrey called on a widening group of friends to write for and perform on his albums. Paul McCartney contributed the new song "Giddy" to One of the Boys, where the band included Hank Marvin, Eric Clapton, Alvin Lee and Mick Ronson. On this cover, another visual trick is played with Daltrey's mirror image, with reference to Magritte's famous painting Reproduction Interdite.
McVicar was billed as a soundtrack album for the film of the same name, in which Daltrey starred and also co-produced. It featured all the other members of The Who (Townshend, Entwistle and Kenney Jones). McVicar included two hit singles, "Free Me" and "Without Your Love", and is Daltrey's best-selling solo recording.
The title track to Under a Raging Moon was a tribute to Who drummer Keith Moon, who died in 1978. Each of the album's tracks, including "Let Me Down Easy" by Bryan Adams, expresses the frustration of growing older as only a man who sang "Hope I die before I get old" can. Daltrey is credited as co-writer on "Don't Talk to Strangers," "The Pride You Hide," "Move Better in the Night" and "It Don't Satisfy Me."
On Can't Wait to See the Movie, Daltrey is credited as co-writer on the tracks "Balance on Wires" and "Take Me Home." On Rocks in the Head, Daltrey is credited (along with Gerard McMahon) for co-writing seven of the eleven tracks, including: "Times Changed," "You Can't Call It Love," "Love Is," "Blues Man's Road," "Days of Light," "Everything A Heart Could Ever Want" and "Unforgettable Opera." On this album, Daltrey's voice ranges from a powerful bluesy growl à la Howlin' Wolf to the tender vocals shared with his daughter Willow on the ballad 'Everything A Heart Could Ever Want". This was his first major effort as a song-writer for his own solo albums.
For his compilation album Moonlighting, Daltrey co-wrote the song "A Second Out" with Steve McEwan of the band UnAmerican. The recording features Daltrey's vocals backed by McEwan on acoustic guitar.
In 1992, Daltrey appeared in The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert, singing the hard rock song "I Want It All", to pay homage to Freddie Mercury, his longlife friend, who died one day after a public announcement that he suffered from AIDS a year before.
Daltrey celebrated his fiftieth birthday in 1994 by performing at Carnegie Hall in two shows (23 and 24 February ) later issued on CD and video called A Celebration: The Music of Pete Townshend and The Who, sometimes called Daltrey Sings Townshend, accompanied by The Juilliard Orchestra, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle, Irish dancers and other special guests. The success of these two shows led to a U.S. tour by the same name, featuring Pete Townshend's brother Simon on lead guitar with Phil Spalding taking bass duties for the first half of each show and John Entwistle playing for the second half. An Australian leg was considered but eventually scrapped.
Daltrey took on a number of other solo projects, including a tour with the British Rock Symphony in 1998, and the Night of the Proms in 2005. Daltrey also worked with the Rock 'n Roll Fantasy Camp, raising money for charities during the final concert.
Besides the songs Daltrey co-wrote for his solo albums, he is credited for co-writing others, including: "Child O Mine" with Gerard McMahon, used on the soundtrack for The Banger Sisters and on the TV show Witchblade. On the soundtrack for Lisztomania, Daltrey is credited with "Love's Dream", "Orpheus Song" and "Peace at Last."
In 2005, Daltrey had a short weekly series on BBC Radio 2, presenting a personal choice of rock'n'roll favourites. In 2006, he wrote and performed a specially commissioned song, "Highbury Highs", for Highbury Farewell ceremony following the final football match on 7 May at Arsenal Stadium between Arsenal and Wigan, in which Arsenal celebrated the previous 93 years at Highbury, preparing for their move to the Emirates Stadium, Ashburton Grove, the following season.[41]
Roger Daltrey embarked on a solo tour of the U.S. and Canada on 10 October 2009, officially called the "Use It or Lose It" tour with his band No Plan B.[42] The band included Simon Townshend on rhythm guitar and vocals, Frank Simes on lead guitar, Jon Button on bass, Loren Gold on keyboards, and Scott Devours on drums.[43] Eddie Vedder made a guest appearance at the Seattle, WA show on 12 October.[44] In 2010 Daltrey and No Plan B appeared for several dates with Eric Clapton,[45] including Summerfest at Milwaukee, Wisconsin.[46] The band also scheduled additional dates without Clapton.
In 1984, Daltrey appeared on "Bad Attitude", the title track of an album by Meat Loaf, sharing the lead vocal. The following year, he appeared in Barbra Streisand's music video for her single "Emotion", playing Streisand's emotionally uninterested husband.
In 1992, he appeared on The Chieftains' Grammy Award-winning album, An Irish Evening: Live at the Grand Opera House. He also released an album with the Boys Choir of Harlem in 1998 with selections from A Christmas Carol. Also in 1998, Daltrey performed two songs with the Jim Byrnes Blues Band at the Los Angeles Highlander Convention.[47] He borrowed a guitar to play for the songs, after reassuring the owner that he would not break it. Daltrey taught thirteen-year-old Drake Bell how to play the guitar in 1999. Drake later starred in Drake and Josh and released two albums.
In 2001, Daltrey provided backing vocals for the title track of the Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros album Global a Go-Go. In 2003, he provided backing vocals for thrash-metal band Anthrax on the song "Taking the Music Back" from their album We've Come for You All. The collaboration came about through Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian's girlfriend, Pearl Aday, daughter of Meat Loaf, whose mother was a friend of Daltrey and his wife. In 2005, Daltrey collaborated with the British pop band, McFly to sing his hit song "My Generation".
On 12 January 2009, Daltrey headlined a one-off concert along with Babyshambles at the O2 Academy Bristol for Teenage Cancer Trust. On Sunday 5 July 2009, Daltrey joined Paul Weller onstage at Hop Farm Festival in Kent for an encore of "Magic Bus".[48]
After The Who retired from active work in 1982, Daltrey developed his career in film and on the theatre stage. Daltrey's appearances in over 30 feature films include early starring roles in Tommy, as "deaf, dumb and blind boy" Tommy Walker in 1975; Lisztomania, as Hungarian composer Franz Liszt in 1975, and McVicar, as British armed-robber-turned-journalist John McVicar in 1980.
In 2006, Roger Daltrey starred as the voice of Argon the Dragon Bus Driver in the children's home DVD called The Wheels on the Bus: Mango and Papaya's Animal Adventure from Armstrong Moving Pictures. The DVD featured Daltrey as a costumed children's dragon, who drove a bus for two lost puppets trying to return to their home at the zoo. Daltrey provided vocals for children's classics, such as "The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round," in addition to songs written specifically for the home video. He later appeared in two other videos for this series.
Roger Daltrey has acted in ads, television and films, and maintains an extensive filmography. A sampling of his films is as follows:[49]
Daltrey has played a number of television roles, including BBC Television Shakespeare as both Dromios in The Comedy of Errors, the police drama series The Bill, the science fiction series Sliders as Col. Angus Rickman, the VH1 series Strange Frequency 2, Witchblade as the devil, and was a recurring guest star in Highlander: The Series as Immortal Hugh Fitzcairn, one of the closest friends of lead character Duncan MacLeod. In 1983, he played Macheath, the outlaw hero of BBC TV's production of John Gay's 1728 ballad opera, 'The Beggar's Opera'.
In 1986 he acted in the TV series Buddy. In 1993, He guest-starred (along with Steve Buscemi) in an episode of Tales From The Crypt entitled "Forever Ambergris". Daltrey appeared as a villain in a 1996 episode of Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. He also played Nobby Clegg, a character named after the band Nobby Clegg and the Civilians, in the Showtime series Rude Awakening.
Daltrey appeared in an episode of The Simpsons, "A Tale of Two Springfields", as himself along with John Entwistle (Pete Townshend was replaced by his brother Paul for the episode). The Who helped Homer break down a wall he had built through the town of Springfield.
A self-described history buff, Daltrey often involves himself in history research related media including television documentaries. Pirate Tales from 1997, is a documentary/action show about the age of piracy in the 1700s, in which Daltrey impersonated English buccaneer William Dampier in a main role as the narrator throughout the series. In 2003 he hosted the History Channel's Extreme History with Roger Daltrey talking about historical events and explaining the survival techniques the civilisations treated had available. He also appeared in "That '70s Musical", the 100th episode of That '70s Show as Fez's musical director.
Daltrey guest starred in a 7 November 2006 episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation ("Living Legend") as Mickey Dunn, a prominent Las Vegas 1970s mob boss who returns to Las Vegas to avenge his attempted murder. The Who's music, and Daltrey's singing, provide the themes for all three of the series in the CSI franchise every week ("Who Are You" for the original show, "Won't Get Fooled Again" for CSI: Miami and "Baba O'Riley" for CSI: New York).
In 2005, Daltrey had a cameo appearance as himself in the episode "The Priest and the Beast" in Series 2 of The Mighty Boosh. He is found by the main characters vacuuming a desert, presumably as a "karmic" consequence of leaving Woodstock early and not helping to clean up.
Daltrey has also performed on the soundtrack of a number of films and television shows, most notably CSI. He also appeared in the music video for "Emotion" by Barbra Streisand, although neither he nor The Who were the featured act.
Daltrey has appeared in stage in productions including Mike Batt's The Hunting of the Snark in 1987 as The Barrister, and also in Batt's Philharmania with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in 1998. He appeared in The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come True in 1995 as the Tin Man. Also in 1995 he starred in a three part Bert Coules BBC radio dramatisation of the Mutiny on the Bounty novels of Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, and in 1996 he starred in a BBC Radio 2 production of Jesus Christ Superstar as Judas. In 1998, Daltrey played the part of Scrooge in the Radio City Music Hall production of A Christmas Carol in New York City. In 2003, he starred as Alfred P. Doolittle in a production of My Fair Lady at the Hollywood Bowl alongside John Lithgow and Melissa Errico.
In addition to his career as an actor, Daltrey has acted as producer on several films, including: Buddy's Song (1990), McVicar (1980), Quadrophenia (1979) and a project in development See Me Feel Me: Keith Moon Naked for Your Pleasure.[49]
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NAME | Daltrey, Roger |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Daltrey, Roger Harry |
SHORT DESCRIPTION | Singer–songwriter, musician, actor, film producer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1944-03-01 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hammersmith, London, England |
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Background information | |
Born | November 2, 1944 (1944-11-02) Todmorden, England |
Genres | Progressive rock, Rock, Classic Rock |
Occupations | Musician, Songwriter, Composer, Keyboardist |
Instruments | Synthesizer, Piano, Keyboard |
Years active | 1967–present |
Labels | Edel Records Victor Entertainment Shout! Factory Varèse Sarabande Rhino Entertainment Manticore Records J!MCO Records Sanctuary Records EMI Marquee Inc. Charly Records Gunslinger Records Cinevox Records |
Associated acts | Gary Farr & The T-Bones. The V.I.P's, P.P. Arnold, The Nice, Free Creek, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Emerson, Lake & Powell, 3, Keith Emerson Band |
Website | KeithEmerson.com |
Keith Emerson (born Keith Noel Emerson, 2 November 1944, Todmorden, West Yorkshire) is a British keyboard player and composer. Formerly a member of the Keith Emerson Trio, John Brown's Bodies, The T-Bones, V.I.P.s, P.P. Arnold's backing band, and The Nice (which evolved from P.P. Arnold's band), he started Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP), one of the early supergroups, in 1970. Following the breakup of ELP, circa 1979, Emerson had modest success with Emerson, Lake & Powell in the 1980s. ELP reunited during the early 90s. Emerson also reunited The Nice in 2002 for a tour. An album titled Keith Emerson Band Featuring Marc Bonilla was released in Aug/Sept 2008.
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Emerson grew up in the seaside resort of Worthing, West Sussex, England. As a child, he learned western classical music, from which he derived a lot of inspiration to create his own style, combining classical music, jazz, and rock themes. Emerson became intrigued with the Hammond organ after hearing jazz organist Jack McDuff perform "Rock Candy" and it subsequently became his instrument of choice for performing in the late 60s. This blending of elements is illustrated in his participation in the 1969 Music From Free Creek "supersession" project, where Emerson performs with drummer Mitch Mitchell and bassist Chuck Rainey covering, among other tracks, the Eddie Harris instrumental "Freedom Jazz Dance".
In 1969, Emerson incorporated the Moog modular synthesizer into his battery of keyboards. While other artists such as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones had used the Moog in studio recordings, Emerson was the first artist to tour with one.
He is known for his technical skill and for his live antics, including using knives to wedge down specific keys of his Hammond organ during solos, playing the organ upside down while having it lie over him and backwards while standing behind it. He also employed a special rig to rotate his piano end-over-end while he was playing it. Along with contemporaries Richard Wright of Pink Floyd, Tony Banks of Genesis, Billy Ritchie of Clouds and Rick Wakeman of Yes, Emerson is widely regarded as one of the top keyboard players of the progressive rock era.[1][2][3] Allmusic refers to Emerson as "perhaps the greatest, most technically accomplished keyboardist in rock history".[4]
Emerson has performed several notable rock arrangements of classical compositions, ranging from J. S. Bach via Modest Mussorgsky to 20th century composers such as Béla Bartók, Aaron Copland, Leoš Janáček and Alberto Ginastera. Occasionally Emerson has quoted from classical and jazz works without giving credit, particularly early in his career, from the late 1960s until 1972. The song "Rondo" by The Nice is a 4/4 interpretation of "Blue Rondo à la Turk" by the Dave Brubeck Quartet, originally in 9/8 time signature. The piece is introduced by an extensive quote from Bach's Italian Concerto, third movement. In fact, considering the Bach and Emerson's own improvisations, the Brubeck contribution is merely the anchoring theme.
On ELP's eponymous first album, Emerson's classical quotes went largely uncredited. "The Barbarian" is heavily influenced by Allegro barbaro by Bartók, and "Knife Edge" is virtually a note-for-note restatement of "Sinfonietta" by Janáček. Note-for-note extracts were taken from pieces by Bartók, Janáček and Bach, mixed in with some original material, and credited completely to Emerson, Lake, Palmer and roadie Richard Fraser. By 1971, with the releases Pictures at an Exhibition and Trilogy, Emerson began to fully credit classical composers, Modest Mussorgsky for the piano piece which inspired the first album, and Aaron Copland for "Hoedown" on the second. Emerson was adamant that he did not use Maurice Ravel's orchestration of Pictures at an Exhibition in developing his own version.
In 2004 Emerson published his autobiography entitled Pictures of an Exhibitionist, which deals with his entire career, particularly focusing on his early days with The Nice, and his nearly career-ending nerve-graft surgery in 1993.
Emerson has provided music for a number of films since 1980, including Dario Argento's Inferno and World of Horror, the 1981 thriller Nighthawks and, more recently, Godzilla: Final Wars. He was also the composer for the short-lived 1994 animated television series Iron Man.
Emerson has released a number of solo albums and is currently working on another with regular collaborator Marc Bonilla and producer Keith Wechsler. The new album titled Keith Emerson Band Featuring Marc Bonilla was released in August/September 2008. He currently on tours with his own band in Russia and Baltic (Aug/Sept 2008) and in Japan (Oct 2008). The current tour band members are Marc Bonilla (G/Vo), Travis Davis (B), Tony Pia (Dr).
On June 30, 2009, Emerson appeared as a guest during Spinal Tap's 'One Night Only World Tour' at Wembley Arena, during the songs 'Short And Sweet' and 'Heavy Duty'. He concluded his guest spot by kicking over his weighty Hammond organ to the delight of the crowd.
Emerson is currently (4/2010) touring the USA with Greg Lake as Emerson & Lake. The show is a small venue, intimate tour with lots of audience interaction.
On stage Emerson started out on Hammond organ, with a grand piano toward the back of the stage. By the end of his time with The Nice, the standard arrangement was two Hammond organs, a C-3 (only cosmetically different than a B-3) and an L-100, placed facing each other with the C-3 to the left from the audience point of view. The L-100 took plenty of abuse during the stage act and was usually reinforced, to the point where it weighed so much that, on at least one occasion, Emerson became trapped beneath it and had to be rescued by a roadie. At any given time Emerson is said to have owned several L-100 models, in various stages of repair, to support his act. The C-3, in contrast, seems to have lasted for years.
Although the Hammond L-100 with its shorter manuals is considered a "poor man's" Hammond, Emerson not only played much of the early Nice music on his L-100, but also made good use of some of its unique features which his bigger Hammond C-3 does not provide. The L-100 has a self-starting motor, which - if turned off and on in short intervals - renders the whole organ into a wailing howl while the note generator, which is tied to a synchronous motor, tries to recover to pitch. The L-100 also features a spring-loaded reverb tank, which produces bomb-like noises if shaken. Both effects can be heard in abundance on "Rondo 69". On "Ars Longa Vita Brevis" Emerson even uses the reverb tank as a musical instrument, tapping the internal spring against the tank bottom in an effort to create a chromatic scale of "boings".
With ELP, Emerson added the Moog synthesiser behind the C-3 with the keyboard and ribbon controller stacked on the top of the organ. The ribbon controller allowed Emerson to vary pitch, volume or timbre of the output from the Moog by moving his finger up and down the length of a touch-sensitive strip. It also could be used as a phallic symbol, which quickly became a feature of the act. When the Minimoog entered the act it was placed where needed, such as on top of the grand piano. The same location was also used for an electric Clavinet keyboard, used almost exclusively for the encore piece Nut Rocker.
During the Brain Salad Surgery tour of 1974 (one show of which was documented on the 3-LP set, Welcome Back My Friends, to the Show That Never Ends), Emerson's keyboard setup included the Hammond C-3 organ, run through multiple Leslie speakers driven by HiWatt guitar amplifiers, the Moog 3C modular synthesiser (modified by addition of various modules and an oscilloscope) with ribbon controller, a Steinway concert grand piano with a Moog Minimoog synthesiser on top of it (used for the steel drum part on Karn Evil 9, 2nd Impression), an upright acoustic-electric piano that was used for honky-tonk piano sounds, a Hohner Clavinet and another Moog Minimoog synthesiser. Emerson also used a prototype polyphonic synthesiser produced by Moog, which was the test bed for the Moog Polymoog polyphonic synthesiser. The original synthesiser setup as envisioned by Moog was called the Constellation, and consisted of 3 instruments - the polyphonic synthesiser, called the Apollo, a monophonic lead synthesizer called the Lyra, and a bass-pedal synthesiser, called the Taurus. Moog eventually produced the Moog Taurus bass pedal synthesiser as a separate instrument, as well as the Polymoog Synthesiser and Polymoog Keyboard. The Apollo polyphonic synthesiser is currently at a keyboard museum in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Emerson still owns the Lyra synthesiser.
Occasionally Emerson used a pipe organ, when available. In particular, at the Newcastle City Hall he used the Harrison & Harrison pipe organ for the introductory section of Pictures at an Exhibition. The organ is located at the rear above the stage, at the top of a series of steps where choirs can stand. The end of the introductory passage is followed by a drum roll, covering the time while Emerson descended the steps. While all went well for the recording used to produce the album, the debut tour performance at the same venue ground to a halt as the power failed, just as Emerson arrived at the Hammond organ to open the next part of the piece. After a lengthy delay the performance continued with only the Hammond L-100 functioning.
Emerson also used the organ at the Royal Festival Hall for "The Three Fates" from the eponymous debut album by the group. He also used another pipe organ for "The Only Way (Hymn)" from the sophomore Tarkus album. It is not known if he used it in a live context outside of the aforementioned Pictures.
Amplifiers and speakers behind Emerson became more elaborate, including a Leslie unit. There was also a board attached to the front of the stack, intended as a target for his knife throwing. During the Brain Salad Surgery tour, at the end of the show, a sequencer in the Moog Modular synthesiser was set running at an increasing rate, with the Moog Synthesiser pivoting to face the audience while a large pair of silver bat wings was deployed at the back of the synthesiser.
As the technology of electronic keyboard instruments became more sophisticated, Emerson was quick to adopt new instruments, such as the Yamaha GX1 polyphonic synthesiser, one of which can be seen on the video promoting Fanfare for the Common Man. Emerson was reported to have spent $50,000 to buy the Yamaha GX-1 synthesiser at the time of the Works[disambiguation needed] album. Emerson later bought a 2nd GX-1 from John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin, to use to repair his GX-1, which was damaged by a tractor crash into Emerson's home studio. At the time that Emerson left England in the early 1990s to move to Santa Monica, California, he sold the majority of his keyboard equipment, though not the modular Moog. The original Yamaha GX-1 was bought by Hans Zimmer of movie soundtrack fame, while the John Paul Jones GX-1 was bought by a collector in Italy. Other more elaborate innovations have been previously described in this article.
In 1978 Emerson became the official endorser of the world's first fully polyphonic synthesisers, namely the Korg PS-3300 and PS-3100. He started recording with them around this time too and the Korg PS-3300 was heavily used on the ELP album Love Beach. Only 50 PS-3300s were produced and the synthesizer has achieved cult status today partly thanks to Emerson's endorsement. He carried on using it into the 80s, the instrument dominating the 1981 film soundtrack for Nighthawks which starred Sylvester Stallone.
Even on the grand piano, Emerson refused to limit his technique to hitting the keys. He would sometimes reach into the interior and hit, pluck or strum the strings with his hand. The introduction to "Take a Pebble" includes chords and arpeggios played by pressing down on keys, to raise the dampers from the strings, and playing the strings inside the piano as one might play the autoharp. In the live performance of "Hang on to a Dream" with the Nice, recorded for the post-breakup album Elegy, he performed a cadenza of sorts hitting the piano strings with a small hammer, followed by a lengthy wind-down, returning to the song in which he alternated keyboard arpeggios with blows directly on the bass strings. The standard finale to the song has him reaching into the piano with fingers spread on both hands to pluck the final chord, presumably depressing the sustain pedal at the same time to lift all the string dampers. This can be clearly seen on a performance filmed for the television show Beat Club.
Emerson released the new album, “Keith Emerson Band Featuring Marc Bonilla” with regular collaborator Marc Bonilla and producer Keith Wechsler in mid 2008 worldwide, and toured Eastern Europe, Baltic, and Japan following the release.
In March 2010, Emerson received a prestigious Frankfurt Music Prize from the city of Frankfurt. In the same month, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra made a premier performance of "Tarkus" arranged by a renowned Japanese composer Takashi Yoshimatsu.
Emerson toured with Greg Lake in the USA and Canada during spring of 2010, doing a series of "An Intimate Evening with Emerson and Lake" duo shows in which they performed newly arranged versions of the music of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, The Nice, and King Crimson as well as Emerson's new original composition.
He occasionally sits in with jazz orchestra performing new arrangements of ELP pieces as well as standard jazz pieces.
On 25 July 2010, an one-off Emerson, Lake & Palmer reunion concert in which the band will close the High Voltage Festival as the main act in Victoria Park, East London to commemorate the band's 40th anniversary.
For Emerson's work with The Nice, see The Nice Discography. For Emerson's work with Emerson, Lake & Palmer, see Emerson, Lake & Palmer discography. For Emerson's work with Emerson, Lake & Powell, see Emerson, Lake & Powell Discography. For Emerson's work with 3, see 3 Discography.
Note that lack of credit does not imply plagiarism. It is certain that, where required, royalties were paid to composers or their estates. Permission to use pieces was sometimes denied by the composer's family or estate, as for instance with Gustav Holst's Mars, the Bringer of War. Aaron Copland was said to be somewhat puzzled by Emerson's take on Fanfare For the Common Man, but approved its use. Alberto Ginastera, on the other hand, was thrilled by Emerson's electronic realization of his first piano concerto, the fourth movement of which appeared on their album Brain Salad Surgery under the title "Toccata," and declared that he wished he could have done it in that fashion himself.
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NAME | Emerson, Keith |
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SHORT DESCRIPTION | British keyboard player and composer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 2 November 1944 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Todmorden, England |
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