![]() ![]() And so, I was completely method,” Daltrey recalls of his screentime with Turner. This is the first acting job I'd ever done. “I was so scared because I was such a fan. It was an experience he later tapped into when he took on the titular role in Ken Russell’s adaptation of the Who’s groundbreaking rock opera Tommy, a spectacular performance that earned him a Golden Globe nomination in 1975. Before forming the Detours (the band that would later become the Who) when he was 15 years old, he was an incredibly lonely child, tormented by his classmates because of his height. Teenage isolation is a subject Daltrey knows all too well. So it's an all-round whammy, at a time of their lives when they're just about to fly the nest and have a good time.” They get incredibly aggressive cancers because of the age they're at, because their hormones are changing. … They tend to get very, very rare cancers and also suffer most of all of from late diagnosis. They tend to retreat into themselves and go into isolation, which is the worst thing. “That's where we started 30 years ago in the U.K., recognizing that perhaps a 16-year-old boy in a children's hospital with 2-year-olds wasn't a very good idea, especially when they have cancer. “What our organization does is one of the only age-specific things in the whole of that the hospital system for adolescents and young adults,” Daltrey tells Yahoo Entertainment via Zoom from his home in England. Now, in response to how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting the entire planet, TCA has partnered with five other non-profit Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) cancer advocacy organizations - Stupid Cancer, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Cancer and Careers, Lacuna Loft, and CureSearch - to launch, an online COVID-19 resource for teen cancer patients, patient advocates, and medical specialists. (They're) in the bloody room before you get there.For 30 years, Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend of the Who have supported the charity Teenage Cancer Trust, and in the past decade they've brought their campaign to this side of the pond as co-founders of Teen Cancer America. “They know what time our plane lands, what hotel we’re staying at, under what name. “We’ve had to pull them out from under the beds before,” he says, laughing. Still, there are some “extraordinary, really industrial” fans. I’ve seen a lot of stars have their bodyguards, and they push the fans away. Though rural, it's not isolated: Die-hard fans can track him down. He rode out the past two years of the pandemic pretty easily, he says, taking long walks through his sprawling farm in East Sussex, England. "A part of you will be somewhere in it, even if it’s a tiny bit of dust on Jupiter.”įor now, Daltrey remains in prime form. “You are never going to escape this universe," he says. A life is a life.”Īnd when the end does come, Daltrey says he will never really be gone. You can’t measure age in years you can’t measure a lifetime in years. “I still do,” he says, referring to lyrics from the band’s 1965 teen anthem “My Generation.” “I’ve met young people who seem to be incredibly old in their mind, and I’ve met old people that are incredibly young. Which begs the question of how he feels, at 78, still singing one of rock's most iconic lines: “I hope I die before I get old.” Roger Daltrey doesn't push fans away: 'They pay your rent'ĭaltrey is jovial and quick to laugh, his zest for life apparent in his constant joking and easy smile. ![]()
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