"There was something about the chemistry of us that worked," he says. Though they hardly see each other offstage anymore, Daltrey says he and Townshend still have a strong relationship grounded in honesty. After a month in the hospital and six months of recovery, Daltrey planned to shelve the project - until he got a boost of energy from his old friend Pete Townshend, who urged him to finish the project and offered to play guitar on it. Work on As Long as I Have You stalled when Daltrey was hospitalized for meningitis. Roger Daltrey's As Long as I Have You is available now. And, of course, as young English teenagers growing up, this was magical music," he says.
After the war, we had the GIs over in England. "This is all American heritage music that Americans at the time didn't know about. As Daltrey explains, this was the music he idolized as a teen. The new album's title track is a cover of a 1964 song by soul singer Garnet Mimms. "The idea of doing pre-Townshend stuff was an idea that I had for The Who about 10 years ago, when Pete was struggling writing a new album." "This is the kind of material we were playing when we were at the Marquee Club and early gigs that we used to do in London around 1964, before Pete Townshend started writing the songs," Daltrey says. At the age of 74, the British rocker is returning to that music for his new solo album, As Long as I Have You. But when first it started in the 1960s, Daltrey's band was covering American soul songs. Rolling Stone wrote that the voice of The Who's Roger Daltrey was one of the most powerful instruments in rock. Even so, Best of Rockers & Ballads is more of an entertaining listen (and more of a convenience) than embarking on Daltrey's solo albums."Soul comes from the gut," Roger Daltrey says.
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Other compilations that are available offer up most of these songs, but add his more solid post-1980 contributions from Under a Raging Moon and a few of the better cuts from the disastrous Can't Wait to See the Movie and the Parting Should Be Painless album. Average sounding rockers like "Walking the Dog" and "One of the Boys" are energetic enough, but they don't instill the enthusiasm that Roger Daltrey is capable of. "Without Your Love" is the most beautiful ballad of the set, and represents his only Top 40 hit, going to number 20 in 1980. Murray Head's "Say It Ain't So Joe" and Russ Ballard's "Free Me" are two of his most passionate efforts, while both of the Leo Sayer-penned tracks, "It's a Hard Life" and "Giving It All Away," spotlight Daltrey's vocal strength. And, as this collection illustrates, most of Daltrey's better songs are ones that have been written by other artists. The 17 tracks are taken mainly from his self-titled debut album, 1975's Ride a Rock Horse, and 1977's One of the Boys. Although his albums didn't achieve the prosperity that he and the rest of his fans might have expected, some of his material fit in quite nicely with the singer/songwriter formula of the decade. The Best of Rockers & Ballads is an adequate overview of Roger Daltrey's solo offerings of the 1970s, taking the best work from his rather inconsistent career as a musician outside of the Who.
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